Summary

This week on the Good Growing podcast, we finish our conversation on growing ginger, turmeric, and galangal. Last week we got through pre-sprouting indoors, this episode we dive into getting your sprouted rhizomes planted, growing, and then harvested. We take you through a growing season with these tropical spices in Illinois. Watch us on YouTube https://youtu.be/mGrZgSxOXJk Skip to what you want to know: 0:44 Hey Ken! 1:26 Hey Nick! 1:48 Recapping last week 2:40 Planting sprouted rhizomes – What does fertility look like when presprouting for so long? 5:50 Preparing beds for planting in the ground in a caterpillar tunnel; digging a trench, fertility, compost, spacing, mulch 8:27 Watering with drip irrigation (or Kitty litter buckets in Ken’s case) 10:10 What role does fertility play in developing rhizomes? Any fertilizer recommendations? 14:04 Fertilizing during the growing season and hilling ginger (turmeric and galangal are not hilled) 17:34 Does planting depth impact hilling? 20:20 What type of timeline are we talking about for growing a harvestable rhizome? 23:40 Reminder when to start presprouting. 24:56 Managing temperature: If we can’t build a high tunnel in the backyard, what are the season extension options for home gardeners? 30:05 What does the harvest and processing look like for these three crops? 35:48 What are some marketplaces that ginger, turmeric, and galangal growers are selling? 39:52 How do we use these crops in our kitchens? 42:10 Growers and consumers take our ginger, turmeric, and galangal survey at go.illinois.edu/ginger 43:00 Growing tropical spices in Illinois can help in many different ways. 44:36 Thanks and Goodbyes! How to build a low tunnel https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nln3DVuwQXY Take the ginger survey! https://go.illinois.edu/ginger Presprouting ginger video: https://youtu.be/aGNlrOF9J3Y Growing and Harvesting Ginger in Illinois https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nzp0xMacTf8 Contact us! Chris Enroth: cenroth@illinois.edu Ken Johnson: kjohnso@illinois.edu Nick Frillman: frillma2@illinois.edu Check out the Good Growing Blog: htps://go.illinois.edu/goodgrowing Subscribe to the weekly Good Growing email: https://go.illinois.edu/goodgrowingsubscribe Any products or companies mentioned during the podcast are in no way a promotion or endorsement of these products or companies. -- You can find us on most podcast platforms. SoundCloud https://soundcloud.com/user-555304573 iTunes https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/good-growing/id1446630377 Stitcher https://www.stitcher.com/show/good-growing Tunein https://tunein.com/podcasts/Gardening/Good-Growing-p1187964/ Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/202u3siWExE1tTqrVgtmCR Vurbl https://vurbl.com/station/good-growing-4pljnNlUtyG/ Listen notes https://www.listennotes.com/podcasts/good-growing-chris-enroth-cHLPMWpvEOG/ Ivy https://ivy.fm/podcast/good-growing-167902 Castbox https://castbox.fm/channel/Good-Growing-id4302614?country=us Google podcasts https://bit.ly/3AiYjTD