05-06-2007, 12:50 PM
Les, Coming from the clay soils of Chicago area, all gardening here has sounded too easy (can't even count the # of times I have asked someone how to plant something & they say just cut a twig of this & plant the twig in the ground". By golly, I have planted so many things here that way (even unintentionally, had some cassava clippings I left in the garden during spring break, now the stick pile is a whole big thick clump of cassava....)
I used the clump of ginger my fellow student gave for pickling, for green papaya salald, for mahi/bilimbi curry soup, chicken sataty & 1 tuber (hand, knob, corm???- had a little green stem at the top & all of the bottom thingy) for planting.
Dug a hole 2 x the size of the ginger, planted it up to the green top. (OK the hardest part may be the digging of the hole...)
Carey
I used the clump of ginger my fellow student gave for pickling, for green papaya salald, for mahi/bilimbi curry soup, chicken sataty & 1 tuber (hand, knob, corm???- had a little green stem at the top & all of the bottom thingy) for planting.
Dug a hole 2 x the size of the ginger, planted it up to the green top. (OK the hardest part may be the digging of the hole...)
Carey