Ginger

Ginger

Zingiber officinale

Plant out 2 weeks after your last spring frost. Space plants 12 in (30 cm) apart.

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When to plant

Timed from your frost dates, so it holds wherever you garden. Give yours and every step below becomes a date.

See the dates for your garden

Enter your average last spring frost and first fall frost. Every timing on this site turns into a calendar date. Not sure of yours? Your local extension service or a search for “last frost date” and your town will tell you; the app finds them from your location.

Last spring frost
First fall frost

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Optimal Spring Planting (Rhizome)

RootRecommended
  1. Plant out2 weeks after your last spring frost
  2. First harvestabout 8 months after planting out

Pre-sprouted Indoor Start

Root
  1. Start indoors6 weeks before your last spring frost
  2. Begin hardening off1 week after your last spring frost
  3. Plant out2 weeks after your last spring frost
  4. First harvestabout 8 months after planting out

Growing ginger

Spacing in the row
12 in (30 cm)
Between rows
15 in (38 cm)
Planting depth
About 1 inch, buds facing up
Sun
Partial Shade
Hardy to
USDA zone 9
Life cycle
Perennial

Feeding

How often
Every 4-6 weeks during active growth. Use a balanced, not high-nitrogen, feed, which pushes leaves over rhizomes, and stop feeding in the last couple of months before harvest.

Your ginger, planned to the day.

Canopy turns these timings into dates from your own frost data, places every plant at its spacing on your garden map, and tracks it all the way to harvest.

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