Ginger

Lloyd Gordon

Lloyd Gordon

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Not sure if people here would agree but ginger has become lousy. It used to be that fresh ginger was wonderfully aromatic with a subtle spicy flavour and a certain heat if very fresh. Now it's bitter with a harsh taste and a stronger yellow colour. It's gotten so bad that we haven't bought ginger for over a year. We've tried Thai, Peruvian, organic, fancy produce stores.....
This year I bought some from a place in Montreal and I grew it myself. Just harvested it yesterday and it was harsh and bitter. Threw it all out for the squirrels and raccoons.
If anyone has had some delicious fresh ginger or grows a nice variety, please post here.
There's an Ontario ginger farm that I will try next year, maybe it's good.
 
Yes ours is crap here also.

You can and I have grown ginger in Canada, if you treat it as a seasonal root vegetable. If it’s growing happy it can triple in tuber size over a season. No idea what variety’s we grew, a small and large.
 
I am currently trying to grow some ginger from the store. Its super slow and just has one shoot but im looking forward to tasting it in the future!
 
I bought some organic Ginger four or five years ago and tried to grow it inside in my patio window. Didn't grow very well. It did put up large grass like stems fairly tall but by the end of the fall when I pulled it up it was barely bigger than the size of a thumb worth of new growth. But the really weird thing I found was deep down along the fine roots I found a marble sized white nodule filled with liquid. I also found a strange white worm like creature in the soil so I don't know where that came from either. I think it was a white larvae of sorts.
 
For Chinese, as a superstition ,it is bad luck to grow the ginger indoors as a house plant. A long time ago, i rooted and grew a plant i got from abroad and was told this superstition.
 
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