TOPIC: ginseng pictures

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This is the ginseng encased in chicken wire.

Here is a picture from the outside with the cargo wagon that I dry roots in.

Here is a picture from the outside with the cargo wagon that I dry roots in.

Very nice Sir!

Once again, nice looking plants rootman! I'll be curious to see how they are doing after a couple of years. I just worry too much to plant in raised beds like that. Guess I've just heard too many horror stories.... I've seemed to have decent luck so far tranplanting in the woods, and have several decent areas to work with, so that's probably what I'll stick with.

I don't group a lot of plants in a small area, but tend to space them out in the same general area kind of like you'd expect to find wild plants on a pretty good hillside.

5prong, I know what you're saying.
What I've done is more of an experiment, on trying to produce seed.
You can tell I built it out of scrap lumber and cedar posts so really the only thing I bought was chicken wire.
I also put drainage piping in and around it.
If it don't work out I guess I'll go with chickens.

Rootman, that is really cool and those are some really nice plants. They appear to be doing very well. I too have some 3 and 4 prong plants in my shade garden in my side yard and back yard. I also have about 300 2 year old plants coming up out of the mulch. It is an experiment for me as well. Slugs are abundant in my shade garden. I was using deadline but now I just leave them alone. Some get ate and some don't. My shade garden contains primarily hosta plants with some scattered ginseng, bloodroot, yellow root, trillium, jack-in-the-pulpit and mayapple.

I like having them close to the house so I can check on them and enjoy them. The bloodroot and yellow root adapt and thrive better than the ginseng does in my shade garden thou.

I do get some seed from my transplanted wild plants in my shade garden and I plant them in the woods. The 300 or so 2 year olds were from seed I scattered from seed I had purchased.

Good luck,
Latt

Latt,
Your Hostas may be your reason for aggravation with slugs getting in your ginseng. In my landscaping work I see slugs by the droves on hostas. They love em and are like a homing becon to them. Just a thought...

Hillhopper

Thanks Latt, I've been thinking about planting a few black cohosh and goldenseal roots in with the seng.

rootman wrote:

5prong, I know what you're saying.
What I've done is more of an experiment, on trying to produce seed.
You can tell I built it out of scrap lumber and cedar posts so really the only thing I bought was chicken wire.
I also put drainage piping in and around it.
If it don't work out I guess I'll go with chickens.

Rootman - I compliment you on a well thought out plan for your seed bed. I like your spacing, the natural mulch, and putting in drainage pipe was very clever and may be a key to some long term vitality of your plants. I wish you great success in your endeavor.