Comments on: Ginger in a RealFood Garden https://arealgreenlife.com/ginger-real-food-garden/ Making healthier choices. For you, your family and community, and our Earth. Fri, 03 Oct 2025 05:13:12 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Récolter du gingembre, faire du miel de gingembre https://arealgreenlife.com/ginger-real-food-garden/#comments/476 https://arealgreenlife.com/?p=14871#comment-476 […] Vous pouvez trouver plus de conseils sur la culture du gingembre dans cet article sur cultiver du gingembre et faire de la choucroute au gingembreet dans celui-ci sur comment le gingembre s’intègre dans un jardin RealFood. […]

]]> By: Kate https://arealgreenlife.com/ginger-real-food-garden/#comments/472 https://arealgreenlife.com/?p=14871#comment-472 In reply to Carol.

hi Carol, thanks for commenting!

Another storage idea for you to try if you are reluctant to use electricity (I hear you about that!!) would be storing your ginger in a tub full of clean, absolutely dry sand (or perhaps shavings, I haven’t tried shavings but it might work) in a dark, cool, but not frosty place such as in your garage or similar. You would pour a layer of sand into a tub or bucket, place a layer of ginger rhizomes with space between each, and pour more sand over them. Keep going till you fill the tub/bucket. I think it would be good to lid it, but probably best if it’s not airtight.

I haven’t stored ginger rhizomes this way but I have stored yacon planting rhizomes, which I think would have very similar requirements, for a period of months in clean dry sand. The absence of light and moisture and the cool temperature seemed to make them think they had just gone dormant for the winter just as they would in frost free soil; they came out fresh and alive ready for planting.

If you try it, please let me know how it goes!

cheers
Kate

]]> By: Carol https://arealgreenlife.com/ginger-real-food-garden/#comments/471 https://arealgreenlife.com/?p=14871#comment-471 Thank you for this useful article. I just found your site, thanks to my connection to Alain through Parelli from more than a decade ago, iUSA. ( I was an student then an instructor) Anyway, this is my first year growing ginger in rural southeast USA and I am grateful for useful advice. Our frosts arrive in mid Oct, so the ginger will be growing for another 2.5 months. Thank you again for storage tips, I will try all not involving the freezer as I am incontinent about relying on electricity at this interesting time to be alive. Blessinga to you and your family and all life on your homestead.

]]> By: Kate https://arealgreenlife.com/ginger-real-food-garden/#comments/410 https://arealgreenlife.com/?p=14871#comment-410 In reply to Aja.

What a wonderful synchronicity, Aja! Thank you for sharing it.

]]> By: Kate https://arealgreenlife.com/ginger-real-food-garden/#comments/409 https://arealgreenlife.com/?p=14871#comment-409 In reply to Wendy.

You’re welcome, Wendy. Thank you for commenting.

]]> By: Aja https://arealgreenlife.com/ginger-real-food-garden/#comments/408 https://arealgreenlife.com/?p=14871#comment-408 I work as a garden supervisor at a resort and I was speaking with the sushi chef about how he would really like a constant supply of ginger. A couple of minutes later I opened up your email. How helpful! Just the information that I was looking for. I use it in my kitchen exactly how you use it! Thank you for the great read.

]]> By: Wendy https://arealgreenlife.com/ginger-real-food-garden/#comments/407 https://arealgreenlife.com/?p=14871#comment-407 Thank you, I have plenty of turmeric but have been struggling trying to grow ginger, you have clarified a few things, I will try again. Thanks for the effort in putting all this together.

]]> By: Kate https://arealgreenlife.com/ginger-real-food-garden/#comments/406 https://arealgreenlife.com/?p=14871#comment-406 In reply to Pete.

I’m glad it was helpful, Pete. Thanks for commenting!

]]> By: Pete https://arealgreenlife.com/ginger-real-food-garden/#comments/405 https://arealgreenlife.com/?p=14871#comment-405 Love your article, and how you talk about connections. I have usually thought in terms of ‘uses’, but thinking about food connections takes it to another level, including interdependencies. I’ve got Qld arrowroot growing, I think I will spread some ginger among it. Thanks, the article was very timely as I explore growing foods rather than relying on the supermarket. I live in Qld too, but in the subtropics.

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