Name: Anne Summerville, SC (Zone 8a) Only dead fish go with the flow!
The last two Winters here have been exceedingly warm with exceptionally wet Springs and this past January we had temps in the mid 70's for two weeks which really messed things up .. especially in the greenhouse since the soil in the containers actually rose by as much as 5 degrees in some cases .. everything started waking up! It even raised the ground temperature by 2 degrees in the areas with full sun and things started waking up in the beds .. I was terrified. Thankfully after that warm up we didn't have any super cold in the 20's for hours nights but cold enough to lower the ground temperature back to where it should be which put everything 'back to sleep' again.
The nice thing about finding out you can root gingers is that eventually they will make rhizomes.
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