TOPIC: Ginseng Pics & Vid - including 5 prong root Billy sent and Garden,

Good Day to all you Ginsengers..

I took a few pics and some video and posted another youtube video. Link below...

TNhunter

Nice Video TN! Beautiful pics of your ginseng, woods, waterfall, fruit trees and garden.
Looks like you are about 2 to 3 weeks or more further along than we are up here in Ohio.
Your seed bed is looking great this year. It proves that it takes a year or so for the transplanted roots to settle in. All your plant tops seem to be happy this year.
Latt

I agree with Latt! Nice video and really nice Ginseng plants, garden, grapes, fruit trees and the waterfall. You should be proud of all your plantings, especially the Ginseng beds. You truly have a Green thumb and I expected to hear a theme of \"Jolly, ho...ho..ho\" in the video!

Congrats and thanks for sharing!


Frank

Very nice TN! Thanks for sharing

Thanks Guys..

PS - on that 5 prong root... I don't really have a better place to put it here on my property.

I wish it had stayed 5 prongs but it did revert back to a 4 pronger this year.

5 prongers must be just extremely rare around my parts - I have been hunting seng since the late 70's and NEVER found one.

I have found several double and even one tripple top root but never one with 5 prongs.

Probably something a bit more ideal about Mountain areas that make them more likely to do that.

TNhunter

Hi TN
was wondering how much tilling you did on that seed producing bed.
I transplanted a couple dozen plants last year, with no cultivating at all. I have some bigger 4 prongs I'd like to put in a bed so collecting berries will be a bit quicker.
Thanks Bob D

Hi TN
was wondering how much tilling you did on that seed producing bed.
I transplanted a couple dozen plants last year, with no cultivating at all. I have some bigger 4 prongs I'd like to put in a bed so collecting berries will be a bit quicker.
Thanks Bob D

Real nice looking, there, TNHinter!

Thanks Guys...

rpdgrump - when I made my seed producing bed I broke up a 8 x 14' place with a grubbing hoe - probably 5-6\" deep.

Then I took a rake and pulled the sides up to the middle to raise the bed and leave low places (sort of ditches) on each side for good drainage.

I ended up with a 4' x 14' raised bed.

I went to the best location that I know of for seng and got 6 - 5 gal buckets of rock chip filled soil and put them in that bed and also worked in some composted peat moss. I added some bone meal, gypsum, and epsom salt.

Each Spring (in Feb) I give it a good dose of Gypsum.

It is nice to have a bed full of nice seng roots with big tops right near by - I can go get me a seng fix any time I want.

I bought 5 wild roots from Billy and harvested 39 nice roots from around home here and put them in there. The roots from Billy (south east Ky) were intended to mix with my local stuff and hopefully produce better seed.

I learned the hard way that when those berries start filling out you better put out some poison for mice type critters. My first crop we eaten in just a few days - every berry gone. They had nice full green berry pods one Saturday, and the next Friday they were all gone.

I put out some poison last fall and took care of those critters. Got a few good berries to plant too.

Good Luck with yours !

TNhunter

Thanks for all the information TN I'll put it to good use.