Comments on: Grow edible ginger

By: Valex

Valex — Mon, 11 May 2009 18:11:05 +0000

I just want to add that if you’re not careful with growing ginger in the ground, it will spread if not maintained. The ginger plant loves to send growing nodules along it’s root system the will sprout more plants. All forms of ginger do this, and they can make a jungle of your yard. I’m talking from experience on this one for I just got done taking down all the ginger that took up the entire side of our house.

By: Sharon

Sharon — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 02:05:32 +0000

Pleas provide a list of editable Ginger plants also if available a purchase place or site.
Thanks
Sharon
P.S. have a White Butterfly, a tall yellow-orange small flower and two blue ginger plants in garden now not sure anything is OK to eat. Don’t want to get sick either.

By: suzanne

suzanne — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 17:38:24 +0000

please can anybody help me discover if my flowering ginger is edible,I am having no trouble finding sites that sell it but they do not say if it is edible.the plants full name is hedychuim aurantiacum or i have also seen it called ginger lily. the tubers/bulbs smell heavily of ginger and look the same as fresh ginger that you buy in the shops,i think it is edible but i really don’t want to risk making my family sick! can you help?

By: Danielle

Danielle — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 20:39:58 +0000

I have a LOT of ginger plants (the kind that has blooms below the leaves) at a home I just purchased, and I'm not sure how to prepare them for winter. The stalks & leaves are now yellow and bent over and we are close to our first frost. I think I live in zone 9 (southern Louisiana). I don't want to lose them, the flowers are beautiful in May. I don't believe the bulbs were ever dug up and replanted, we bought the house in early spring, and I almost pulled them all because I thought they were weeds! Help!!

Hi Danielle I don't know what kind of ginger plants you have as there are many varieties but yours sounds like they are hardy in zone 9 especially if they were never dug up. The plants are just going dormant-the leaves are turning yellow and resupplying the roots with nutrients for next year. You should see all kinds of new growth in early spring.

By: Dan McRae

Dan McRae — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 20:00:20 +0000

You mention that you do not know of other edible gingers and I have a couple. I especially like Galangal, (Spice Ginger) Alpinia Galangal or Thai ginger. It is a true member of the ginger family and I personally use it a lot in every type of cooking both in a powdered form and fresh. It has a more complex spicier/earthy flavor and aroma. Growth requirements are about the same; it grows 5-6 feet tall and puts out a pretty yellow scafolded erect type flower--not as pretty as some of the inedible more exotic types. Also, consider Curcuma Longa, this ginger is the source of turmeric, grows 4 feet in full sun and has a lovely upright primarily white flower with yellow tips on the lower pedals and lavendar tips on top.

Thank you for the additional information. I'll be sure to add that in my article. I just saw galangal used in Asian recipe- Simply Ming suggested if you can't find it in the stores to substitute edible ginger which is slightly milder in flavor.