Backyard Aquaponics
A place to discuss aquaponics

so far a read that they grow in shade love moisture soil

I am pretty sure that Mitch grew some ginger in his growbed a few years ago in over our Perth summer.

can you give me a hint where is he?

If ginger, that’s no problem, I have turmeric in AP second year doing OK, and galangal and cardamom in pots.

If Ginseng, that’s entirely different proposition

Panax ginseng
Panax quinquefolium
Siberian Ginseng (Eleutherococcus senticosus)

They all need cold winter.
Nearby in the hills is a farm growing ginseng but they do get winter frost and some snow.
Not the case where I live. May be not suitable for AP at all.

http://www.newcrops.uq.edu.au/newslett/ncnl6-6.htm
http://www.ginseng.org.au/index.php/about-ginseng/

thanks

Go ahead and try it and let everyone know how it works out. I can't tell you how many times I have been told "it can't be done" or it shouldn't be and I have done it. If it doesn't work out well then you learned something. I often take it as a challenge when someone tells me something won't work.

I have the seeds somewere

I have tons of stuff to learn about aquaponics but I know a little about ginseng because a lot of people around here harvest it wild and it takes AT LEAST 3 years to mature to be "marketable". I think the Chinese "farmers" in Canada have the market cornered anyways lol. The only way to make money is harvesting in the wild and replanting seeds in that same area (it's the law around here to replant after you harvest anyways) and repeat every couple years.. buyers pay big bucks for wild instead of commercially grown stuff but if you are interested in personal consumption well that's a different story lol

Don't they just bend them over and thereby encourage the goodness from the leaves to enlarge the bulb?