In warmer regions, ventilation and shade cloth are helping keep soil cooler...
Ginger in Bag Container Culture
Feed Your Ginger Now!
Feed Potassium (kmag or sulfate of potash)

 

If your ginger crop is on schedule with proper care and feeding through this season, it is actively growing rhizomes right now.  Have you missed a feeding?  Have you overwatered at some point? Have you been fertilizing with weak feed (something with a number lower than 3 for K in the NPK count)?  Top dress the crop with kmag or sulphate of potash.  This will give the crop a quick feed of potassium while it is actively putting on more rhizome growth under the ground.  As with any amendment, check with your organic certification organization to be sure that it is approved for use.

 

Share the knowledge...

 

This message went to folks who ordered ginger this season.  If you shared your ginger or know of someone else growing ginger this season, feel free to pass this important note on.

Thanks for growing ginger this season.

In future newsletters:
  • Ideas for marketing
  • More cultural recommendations
  • What varieties will be available next season
  • Testimonials from other growers
Keep in touch with updates, comments, questions, and pictures of your ginger crop. We are here for you all season so don't hesitate to contact me: 

eastbranchginger@gmail.com

Sincerely,
Susan Anderson

 

Ginger crop that has been well fed, well watered and in a house with sufficient ventilation to keep soil below 90F
Ginger in middle of Hoop house
Ginger growing in the middle of a hoophouse - note rolled up sides, drip irrigation, open gable ends (and cool fruit trees!)

 

 
 
 
East Branch Ginger
PO Box 321
Pittsboro, North Carolina 27312
info@eastbranchginger.com
207-313-4358