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Growing radishes is a puzzle. While I'm happy to eat radish greens, I have no idea what makes one seed turn into a lovely radish with small greens and the one right next to it never really develop a radish but shoot seedy greens three feet into the air.
I picked almost everything this morning because they had clearly gone to seed, and I don't know if there is anything I can do to prevent it at that point, and we ended up with about 4-5 decent radishes.
Oh well, to be fair, we don't actually like radishes all that much, but they are certainly beautiful.
When I took a gardening class in college, our gardening instructor had us plant radishes as row markers: we'd sow radish seeds along with whatever larger seed we'd planted, so that we'd know where the rows were. We'd then yank them out when the larger seeds sprouted.
ReplyDeleteI'd say: pickle them! They're bland enough to take whatever flavor you give them. :)
Interesting use of radishes. Is that because they grow so quickly?
ReplyDeleteThese radishes don't need any more flavor - they are super spicy! I was thinking of chopping them fine, squeezing out the water, and making a butter with them. We did that last year and it was tasty.
Yep - because they sprout so easily, they make good row markers.
ReplyDeleteI don't know about butter, but I'd include them in a pickle relish, certainly. Do you have a dehydrator? If so, turn them into chips!