Growing Ginger & Turmeric in Containers

Containers are always a good idea for growing tropical edibles, like the choices ginger & turmeric. We also added a fig, and transplanted blueberries into large pots.

[@Palmguy24]

Are these hedychium ginger? A friend gave me a turmeric plant last fall and I planted it in a sheltered location. It's been up for a good while now and survived my 8'F winter low. Gingers, of course, are extremely hardy.

[@BrieThePlantLady]

No these are proper ginger Zingiber officinale

[@SouthCarolinaBetty]

Regarding the blueberries needing acid soil, I wonder what the PH is in Soil3?

[@BrieThePlantLady]

The soil3 is neutral, which is better than my native soil which is rising to over 7.

[@SouthCarolinaBetty]

My neighbor built a fence several months ago, putting a fence post 4 feet away from my 30 year old blueberry, and it's leaves emerged yellow for the first time ever. I'm thinking peat moss might lower the PH.

[@WillaLoomis]

Brie, you started the ginger and tumeric last fall. It is July, I just got some ginger and tumeric from Wegmans. Can I start them now (in July). I live in western wake county.

[@BrieThePlantLady]

Yes the will provably grow faster being planted in the heat