[Jo-n-Neil]

Morning all

I bought some ginger to grow from B&* a few days ago and it says on the bag to plant in a pot and then plant outside in a few weeks. I have since read a book that says ginger should be grown in a hot place such as next to a radiator. I just wondered if anyone had grown any before and which piece of advice was right.

Thanks  
Jo xx

[compostqueen]

yeah I think so    Keep it by the door so it's to hand when you need it and it gets a bit of warmth from the house wall etc

You can break off bits from supermarket ginger and put it in a pot of compost. That's what the Indian cookery teacher told us to do.  Give it a whirl  

[Jo-n-Neil]

I wish i had known that before i went bought it from there, ive got some in the fridge.  :roll:

[agapanthus]

They do love heat. Even when I lived in suffolk it was too chilly to put outside in the garden....used to have mine in a heated greenhouse and put outside in the summer months

[gobs]

I do agree with Aggy, them people claim things that just don't happen. It is a tropical sort of plant. Some varieties are claimed to be quite frost hardy, but then I suppose, you have no variety name.

Jungle Seeds claims to have them outdoors, but I don't know if windy Bolsover is the place.

At any rate they would need a lot of winter protection and older established plants would be much better at putting with the elements, then young guys.

Just for the record, culinary ginger is another thing than possibly hardy ones.

[fletch]

The so called "hardy" gingers are all purely ornamental and grown for their attractive foliage and flowers.

Culinary ginger is not worth the space, heat and time. The rhizome takes forever to grow (not worth it when ginger is so cheap to buy) and the plant itself is nothing to write home about either. Not even worth it as a novelty in my opinion.