Re: edible ginger

**B* M* <b*@verizon.net>**

Culinary ginger is a rhizome and resembles that of iris but is not hardy. This summer I set a piece onto potting soil in a clay pot, flat, outside. Only the bottom third of it was covered with planting medium.  

It rained all the time. I soon had sprouts. I moved the plant indoors in early fall. It is not beautiful but it is alive with two 16-inch compound leaves. A third fell off.

Culinary ginger is closely related to the 7-foot plant known as pinecone ginger (Zingiber zerumbet) which is used in gardens in Florida and elsewhere. Both types develop red, conelike floral structures.

Jo Ellen, I used to grow both in Florida.

Betty Mackey
www.mackeybooks.com

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I'd like to know too! Could you do it on line?

Lina
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