Organic ginger grown on a Northern Nevada farm and it's ready now

At Custom Gardens Organic Farm in Silver Springs we’re growing NEVADA/Hawaiian Yellow Ginger!
For a new treat (if you have never experienced truly fresh young ginger root).

Now, we are ready to share our end of October limited dig.
We will be looking at another harvest of more mature ginger mid-December for Christmas.


Order direct from OUR fall & winter hoop house. JUST GIVE US A CALL: 775-577-2069 We will dig fresh, and have your order  ready for you to pick up at the farm! At $ 7.00 a pound for NV certified organic fresh (baby) young ginger – this is a good buy!

It started as a curiosity. Having read in Growing for Market, a long time subscription, at our farm; a producer in the North East was able to produce this spicy root in his hoop house – even though it takes 9 to 10 months to mature, we were energized.

We thought, will it grow in a NEVADA hoop house? So, unable to set the curiosity aside, Virginia sent for root pieces from a certified organic grower of ginger and turmeric, in Hawaii. It arrived in early April, and by the 13th, the “hands were cut into seed pieces and then tucked into a 45’ a trench in one of our hoop houses. Covering it slightly with soil, we watered it in and covered it with a blanket of Remay. The extra warmth in April is often a must, even for cold hardy vegetables - let alone a tropical plant like ginger. It took what seemed like forever to sprout, (or shoot) out of the soil, flimsy little green blades that looked like a wheat sprout. Soon the top growth was 2 ’+ tall and at least as wide, and we had to keep filling in the trench and finally hilling the bed/row. The Ginger seemed to like the companion crops of greens, beans and carrots …… which helped to hold humidity in the hot summer months.

With no problems from pests, the seed pieces and the new growth (now at 6 months stage) we “gingerly” teased out a few of the plants. We discovered bright healthy looking young ginger roots at what is called half growth. Beautiful and delicious, and we found – it was not at all tough or pithy, as are many of the “long stored” roots in supermarkets. A perfect cup of tea! Discovery - one can keep it fresh, if frozen, to be taken out of the freeze rand grating the still frozen root -- just what you need, into your food or cookie batch - returning the remaining ginger root to the freezer.