Growing Ginger

A question about : Growing Ginger

To my shame :-[, ive left a piece of ginger so long that it has sprouted. in the spirit of MSE, does anyone know how i could grow it on even if only as a pot plant?

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• lie it on the soil with the roots downwards and see what happens
  nothing to lose
• I thought about that , but as a tropical? plant and were coming into autumn i thought better of it. but sticking it in soil in a pot it would prbably rot :-/. i just hate to see something trying to survive that i cant bin it
• https://www.ehow.com/how_318_grow-ginger.html
  Growing Ginger in a Container
• i put some in a pot, lasted about a year, but died from overwatering.
• Thanks for the link Cathy, and for the encouragement 160 :-/. i have brown fingers as opposed to green but i cant help but try ;D
• yr welcome di, good luck with it.
• i always throw sprouting things into pots :
  then I have constant pototes....and things - as they don't rot so much in the soil!!!!
• how do you do, potatoes.
• sorry don't know where , came from, meany how do you do potatoes in a pot`
• i use a strawberry planter or the larger pots where I have killed off the previous plants.....
  and I chuck them in...put soil on top....and then let them grow....have mainly done the little new potatoes or salad potoatoes or I think it was Anya (a nutty flavoured one) in fact all the pototoes I have that sprout.....
  Hope that helps?
  M
• mmm, will give that a bash. how long do they take to grow?
• https://www.wireboard.com/~jleitess/c...c54371448d.htm
  just rang brother in law who is a champion spud grower
  says they take about 5-6 weeks in the dark to sprout then in 6 months you should have leaves and such so about 8 months to harvest
• How do you find all this stuff??
• at my age you find youve learned a lot and if not my 77year old mum will know or my old mates who are also well read
  failing that a google search will always come up trumps
• just rang brother in law who is a champion spud grower
  not an official champion spud grower just grows his own
  hes never had a crufts winner or anything though
• little potatoes are done in a few months....my mum thought I'd killed them, as I waited for the stalks to die down - don't know if you are meant to, but once they had tatties where doing just fine!!!
  ;D
• :-[Just found some more ginger. Mr Di keeps buying it without checking and then not using it.
  Men!!!
• i found five jars of pickled beetroot the other day, god knows what i'll do with that,.
• https://www.recipesource.com/side-dis...0/rec0044.html
  beet root chutney and give it to the school for harvest festival or christmas fayre
  ;D ;D