Mother Earth News 1974 by Unknown

Author:Unknown
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub

Cultivated Ginseng

Ginseng, of course, can be domesticated and often is. The tame product sells for about one third the price of the wild and buyers can readily tell the difference, because all cultivated plants in a batch will be about the same age. In contrast, the age of roots in a foraged shipment will vary from about six years on up (possibly all the way to a century). Nevertheless, raising this crop can be a very profitable enterprise for a grower who prepares the soil properly, controls disease and has the patience to wait six or eight years for his first harvest.

Some folks stock their ginseng operations by replanting wild roots under small houses made of lath or in specially prepared beds. There are also many commercial sources of seed and growing instructions (see the classified sections of outdoor magazines).

I’ve planted ginseng in half a dozen areas of a large national forest, and one patch is beginning to look very promising. If you do likewise, of course, you’ll want to choose locations where “the hand of man seldom sets foot.” Comparatively few people nowadays know what ginseng looks like, so the risk of your private bed being pirated is small - a lot less, probably, than if you had it next to your cabin. (This may not be the case in all parts of the country. See the accompanying July/August 1974 article about harvesting ginseng by Douglas Elliott. - MOTHER. )

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