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How can I grow ginger in my backyard?
You should really wait till late winter (in pots if its not warm enough outdoors) or spring time to plant, but assuming it's ginger root you're after, then yes, you can buy it from the grocery store - ...
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Repotting ginger in a window box
Hmm, well, your ginger should have been harvested a few months back, as the leaves died down - at the time when you harvest the root, you can keep a section which has incipient buds or eyes for ...
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How deep to plant ginger rhizomes that have existing shoots and stems?
Your guess is correct - plant parts above the soil level will be green to allow photosynthesis, whereas the parts below the soil level don’t participate in photosynthesis and are consequently not ...
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Is my ginger stem too thin?
Looks healthy to me! I don't think a support is necessary. If a cane grows too long for the pot, you can trim it (cut off the last 1/3 of that cane). Make sure they get as much light as possible, to ...
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Ginger plant growing into height
You haven't said which ginger this is - assuming its the type of ginger where the root is used for cooking, that plant does not like direct sunlight, though it appreciates dappled sun. Your plant ...
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Repotting ginger in a window box
Since ginger forms rhizomes, I'd simply get a large sharp knife (one you don't mind being used like this) and cut through the branched rhizomes. Leave the large pieces with the new shoots in the soil ...
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How deep to plant ginger rhizomes that have existing shoots and stems?
I've grown ginger for 3 seasons in hardiness area 8a. I was told ginger could not be grown here because it is a "subtropical" plant. But it has done very well mulched overwinter with 12"...
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how to harvest ginger without harvesting the whole ginger plant?
What you’re suggesting - harvesting during the growing season - isn’t ideal.
Ginger is best harvested once the leaves die down at the end of the growing season.
There are a number of reasons for this ...
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Why does the ginger wither at the top/tip?
If you've only got one piece of ginger root in that size pot, the pot's too large, but if there's more than one growing, fine.
Usual cause of this problem is dry air, that is, low air humidity, or ...
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Why are the leaves of my ginger plant drying out?
the PH of your water must be slightly acid otherwise nutrients cannot be absorbed by the roots coupled by lack of water id say use a liquid fertilizer (not miracle grow) something with a nutrient ...
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