Overall the combination is working for you, thats still great :)
I am gonna read about the Walachii flower and what conditions it grows in :)
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Overall the combination is working for you, thats still great :)
I am gonna read about the Walachii flower and what conditions it grows in :)
Nice! I hope you can find all the information without too much trouble.
I grow my own ginger in 3 pots inside the house. I still don't know if the ginger likes wet soil or dry. I've been watering once a week and so far I get new shoots and roots each year, so at least they are surviving and I get fresh organic ginger. It's not a lot of ginger, but better than none!
Ooooo growing ginger inside home sounds interesting. What does the books and the internet says about ginger soil preference, maybe ginger has a weather preference.
But yeah any ginger is good , then ginger from the markets.
I find mostly stuff like this:
It isn't really very specific about anything. What does "over-watering" actually mean? https://newengland.com/today/living/gardening/how-to-grow-ginger-indoors/
From experience, I can tell you that my ginger sends up tall leaves (2-3 feet or just under a meter tall) and that they all die back once per year. It is a slow-growing plant, so each year there isn't a lot of extra ginger to harvest without depleting the roots for growing next year's crop. I have my pots behind my south-facing glass patio door, so it does get lots of light in the Summer and as much as possible for our climate in the Winter. As I said, I water once per week and depending on the temperature, sometimes the soil actually dries out before I water again. Whether or not this is the optimal condition, I don't know.
so its like more of a combo science for ginger i guess, the light, water and weather everything and then instincts and doubts
LOL... add to that: I later (after posting earlier) discovered that there are different VARIETIES of ginger that live under different conditions! I started mine with ginger I bought from the grocery store and I can only guess where it came from. I have no idea what variety it is and under what conditions that particular variety has acclimatized to. For fear of killing them, I will continue to do what I have been doing and hope I'm doing the correct thing. The good feature about ginger is that no bugs have bothered to attack it all these years. Yesterday I noticed that my Swiss Chard is loaded with aphids out in my greenhouse. I have ants in there and they herd the aphids as we do with cows. The ants "milk" the aphids for the sweet juice the aphids produce. I actually witnessed it once. The ant strokes the aphid with its antenna and the aphid expels a drop of juice. The ant then drinks up the juice.
The ants milk the aphid, holyyyyyyyyyyy
How big are the ants there?
We have very tiny ants here, so tiny that I cant spot their breasts. NOt sure if I am getting the right picture of the aphids, ants and milk :\
We have a variety of ants here. Some are quite large and others very tiny. Most are black but some are red. We also have what we call fire ants. They can cause quite some pain. I had a chicken that was eating some fire ants until the sting set in. Then it began shaking its head and ran away from the ants, never to touch them again. There are also fire ants at one of the popular dog-walking parks. When those climb onto a dog, the dog begins scratching and jumping all over the place. I have luckily never experienced the pain of fire ants myself, so cannot know exactly how bad the pain is.
If you look closely at the larger aphids, you will see 2 "pipes" sticking out of the back end of the aphid. That's where the fluid comes out. Ants don't have breasts (at least not in the sense you are thinking). The ant uses its antenna to rub the aphid on it's back. Then a drop of juice comes out a pipe and onto a leaf. The ant takes the juice from the leaf. Hopefully that paints a more accurate picture for you.
The lady next door found the name of the plant. It is called, Greater Celandine and is part of the poppy family. There is also a Lesser Celandine that is part of the Buttercup family, but that is not the plant she said cures warts. She even believes that when you use the sap of the Greater Celandine, it induces some sort of resistance in your body so that no more warts grow. It could be coincidence, but that was her experience, because she used it on her daughter and her daughter never had any more warts since then.
See https://www.google.com/search?q=celandine+plant&tbm=isch&source=iu&ictx=1&fir=aVYAhva_7u1wgM%253A%252Cik6uph4dH1wkqM%252C%252Fm%252F05pdxb&vet=1&usg=AI4_-kSx_gjh8o6gotGozACTjQ61pXJ7Dg&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwi818aD4b7iAhVMHTQIHYWuDc4Q_B0wEnoECAoQBg#imgrc=aVYAhva_7u1wgM: for a picture of the plant she showed me. She even gave me one to plant in my garden.
She has such knowledge, plus it worked for her daughter, so reliable in a way. Thanks for sharing it with me :)