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Please tell me how to store
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Posted by ms_minnamouse 7b (My Page) on Fri, Sep 15, 06 at 1:16
| The first year I got my butterfly ginger, I cut down the stalks and kept it in it's pot in the garage.
This year I left it in the ground and I was really happy to see it come back but it's just starting to bud now.
When storing bananas, they say that storing them in plastic is going to make them mush. Is this the same for gingers? Do I have to store it in burlap? With any media? And where can I get burlap?
Or is there a different way? |
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RE: Please tell me how to store
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| I have just taken the pots in before frost and grow on. If they start going dormant, I cut back on watering, cut off the dead stems as they dry, and therafter, only water a very little just to keep them from going absolutely bone dry and keep on the cool side say 65-68F, til next season. Beware of keeping too moist--you can get rot. I haven't kept any out of soil as they can just dry out and die. There may be a way to put them in lightly moistened peat and keep cool in storage. Maybe someone else has done that. I leave my Hedychium coronarium in the ground and any that are hardy in our 7b winters. A good mulch of shredded leaves can help in pushing the zone on certain borderline hardy types. Robert. |
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