Growing Ginger

Zingiber Officinale : Zingiberaceae / the ginger family

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Not recommended for growing in USA - Zone 5a regions

Plant pieces of fresh root showing signs of shoots. Best planted at soil temperatures between 68°F and 86°F. (Show °C/cm)
Space plants: 6 inches apart
Harvest in approximately 25 weeks. Reduce water as plant dies back to encourage rhizome growth.
Compatible with (can grow beside): Grow in separate bed

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23 Jun 15, Gab (Australia - temperate climate): Hi Daniel. We're on the Central Coast, NSW, & we successfully grow ginger over summer. It's died off now though, so we'll buy another piece from the supermarket next spring & start again.
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12 Oct 15, Colette (Australia - temperate climate): Hi, we are in the Sydney Hills district. I assume if you have been successful, I can try too. Is it too late to plant now?
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01 Dec 15, Aaron (Australia - temperate climate): Collette, i live in the hills too and planted an old knob of ginger from woolies in a pot in October. It's only just started shooting now so yeah we can do it. How well it grows may be another issue.
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22 Jun 15, Daniel (Australia - sub-tropical climate): Has any one grown ginger on the Northern Rivers of N.S.W with any luck. We have a sub-tropical climate zone.
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14 Nov 15, akuli (Australia - cool/mountain climate): When i lived in Iluka on the Clarence it grew beautifully.
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09 Aug 15, Jess (Australia - cool/mountain climate): My mum successfully grows it at Tweed
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18 Jul 15, Asa-Marie (Australia - sub-tropical climate): Hi Daniel, yes we have up in Lillian Rock, it grows very well here. Good luck!
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25 Jun 15, Mike (Australia - sub-tropical climate): I grow it in the Bellinger Valley, south of Coffs Harbour and near the coast, Daniel, it should be fine where you are.
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03 Jun 15, Dolf weyers (South Africa - Dry summer sub-tropical climate): Where can I buy ginger seeds
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07 Jul 15, hennie Mulder (South Africa - Summer rainfall climate): Ginger are grown from the root you can buy at any green grocer just check that it has at least one bud at the tip if more than one bud is present them the root can be separated
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You didn't say when you did this, but disturbing the ginger before it died off in winter was your problem. At the moment all its energy is going into maintaining the leaves. I would chop them off or at least by half if some are still good and it will then try to save it's roots and ,maintain the ginger corm. It should then send up new leaves when ready. Keep it moist but not wet so,it doesn't rot. If by winter nothing has happened, dig it up and check the corms are healthy, split if big and replant. Edible ginger is better every two years as bigger corms form, which is when I divide. It freezes in alfoil also. Fresh ginger can be harvested carefully anytime from side.Hope this helps.

- Chris

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