The harvest season of foreign ginger

Harvest after autumn frost. After harvesting and digging, it is cleaned up and taken out of the soil for marketing. If it is planted in idle land, if it is necessary to continue planting, small tubers can be selected and buried in the soil during excavation, and interplanting and replanting should be done in time after emergence in the next year.

Native to North America, it was introduced to Europe in the17th century and then to China. It blooms in autumn and has small yellow flowers in the shape of chrysanthemums. Tuber propagation is generally used in production, and its underground tuber is rich in fructose polymers such as starch and inulin, which is edible.

Extended data

The difference between ginger and ginger

First, the attribute

Jerusalem artichoke is a perennial herb of Helianthus in Compositae. Ginger is a perennial herb of Zingiberaceae. From the attribute point of view, they are different species.

Second, tubers

The tuber of ginger is irregular, spherical or spindle-shaped, with red, yellow or white skin and no obvious smell.

Ginger tubers are thick, flat, fragrant and spicy, usually yellowish brown or grayish brown, brittle and easily broken, with a light yellow cross section.

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