Does growing ginseng on agricultural land, cause problems with subsequent crops?
The past few years have seen a number of false rumours around the growing of ginseng, as well as problems for subsequent crops. There is no substantiation to any of them and in fact Wisconsin and Ontario, where ginseng has been grown up to 100 years, have never heard of these supposed problems. The first and most often heard, is that nothing will grow for decades after ginseng. This come from the statement from WI, that you “never grow ginseng after ginseng”, a very different statement. Since 1982, we have harvested over 5000 acres of ginseng and all of this land has agricultural crops growing on it, mostly alfalfa. In fact, we are even growing ginseng after ginseng. If the above were true, no farmer in his right mind would plant ginseng and/or lease his land for growing ginseng. As an environmental issue, no government would allow the planting of a crop that ‘ruined’ the land for decades. When the land is returned to the owner in a lease situation, the owner is generally happy with th
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