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>>I guess I'll have to wait til Spring. Or maybe I'll buy a root and try to get it started in a pot.<<

I just started mine in pots the other day. I will also plant some outside a couple of weeks before the last expected frost. (the ground doesn't freeze here).

>>I'm thinking I could make some strong ginger tea with these crystals (real ginger+honey+sugar) and then mix it half and half with seltzer water.<<

I love ginger tea. You will find the fresh ginger much better. Don't put too much fresh ginger in unless you like the sting of spicy.

>>And my arthritic left knee thanks you.<<

I had polio when I was 2 years old. I couldn't begin to tell the aches and pains that has caused especially now as I get older. If you haven't already do some research on the health benefits of ginger. I suspect you have already.

I am my own lab rat. Since I lost my insurance (a shocker, thanks to Obamacare) I haven't been able to afford prescription medicines so I have been experimenting with ginger and turmeric and suchlike.

I can walk with a cane (in a mincing wincing way) but to be reasonably pain free I need a diclofenac topical application (Voltaren) and/or prednisolone which I pulverize in my spice grinder and mainly add to the Voltaren to apply topically, not orally, so it doesn't eventually kill me dead. (I get this all this stuff OTC online from Poland, India, and other countries that have this neat system, what's known as a "Free Market," now sadly missing from the USA.)

Poland and India on my knee.

I do think I'd like to ratchet up the ginger/turmeric so I can take the prenisolone down a notch.

Dear CB!! How many of your joints are affected by the aftereffects of polio?