That is, a few short items on gardening, since it seems as if all I do these days is garden.
These include:
Update 6/25/2024:
The standard advice for growing ginger runs something like this: Ginger is a tropical plant with a ten-month growing season in its native climate. Therefore, if you are in a temperate, non-tropical climate, you should start your ginger plants ten months before your expected first fall frost.
Which, in my climate (Virginia, USDA zone 7) means starting ginger in … January? And then growing your ginger as a house plant for some months, until it can survive outside?
Yep, that’s the standard advice. I did that, as shown below. And I think that’s bad advice. Continue reading Post G24-010: Growing ginger in Virginia? This needs a rethink.
