planting mine out this week. it’ll go along the shed where there’s a concrete foundation, lots of sun, heat and water runoff. I plan to dig some up up over winter in the greenhouse for a backup, and see how some does protected like a fig outside over the winter
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They seem pretty amenable to being dug up and moved, and the one patch did quite well in the ground my greenhouse over the first half of winter, so I think they are a good candidate for overwintering in greenhouses.
Instead of digging mine up, I’m going to start a few cuttings every fall, taken from the first node above ground when I harvest. I’ll cover the “stubs” with mulch and maybe they’ll regrow after mild winters. I’ll plant the rooted new plants out in early summer, letting them get a jump start in the warmth of the greenhouse for spring.
If they don’t end up getting mature enough to be grown as an annual and harvested that way, I might keep them in pots for a year outdoors, overwinter in the greenhouse, and plant them out the next year. Basically what you did with yours, @resonanteye.
But regardless of whether it’s better to do them as annuals or biennials, I’ll probably keep growing them. The juice from those bottom couple segments was very tasty, much better than I’d feared it might be with our lack of heat units.
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