Growing ginger in the uk.

[Mr Gus]

Whilst thinking this morning about my old "Ginger tosser" (much missed dog scaring tom-cat) it reminded me that we used to grow ginger under glass this came up in my feed..



https://www.gardenersworld.com/how-to/g ... ow-ginger/

Maybe one for joe when he gets his growing structure of unknown size & modularity to complement that chili harvest.
(we used some ginger for partial shading of other plants) simple & hardier than people think, with a useful harvest, dont forget to leave that sticker on your sacrificial seeding piece, nor forget to soak it as per video.

[nowty]

I tried this a few years back with poor results.

I did soak the ginger but in hindsight, I think I buried the ginger too deep and planted it too late. Some of it rotted, it took a very long time to sprout, and I think I didn't get much more ginger than I used in the first place. But the quality was exceptional.

I might give it another go next year and maybe start it off earlier.

[ecogeorge]

Ive grown ginger from supermarket roots in the greenhouse. Looks like a grass when it grows but won't survive a winter and never mananged to harvest any ginger...
George

[Mr Gus]

Were either of yours on heat mats & cloches or just open to the cold we tended to bag anything we werent sure about & micro climate it.
Also had the advantage of general heating mind you.

[Swwils]

The secret to growing ginger is:

morning sun only.

do not water once the stems die.

[nowty]

This looks helpful for us UK folk.

[FourFootFarm]

Have tried it but not had much joy. Ive seen people have more joy this summer though due to the weather.

[Joeboy]

They used large ginger root in the water for the footpath pre foot massage in China. Used to use it in hot tub back home too, excellent!

[Oldgreybeard]

Would growing it with additional light from an LED grow light help, do we think?

A neighbour got her tomatoes off to maybe a three or four week head start by using a flat panel LED grow light this year. Maybe the same approach might work, perhaps together with a heat mat, for ginger, fooling it into thinking it was warmer and sunnier here that it really is.

[Mr Gus]

We have so many flights going over us & police / air ambulance that i've been really wary to use a decent sized led array, the idea of bust doors & search warrants for non existent drugs would probably cost the life of at least one dog if they decided to turn up.

would try first with a singular led 60 - 100 grow bulb which is what used a few years back for spot growth on a heated seedling tray. ..even the leds will cost you a lot (usually have fans built in for overhead set ups)in terms of running costs.