The versatile radish!

[veggiechicken]

I've been clearing the GH ready for the toms and pulled up some bolted and flowering radishes. The flowers are so pretty in shades of white, pink and mauve - like night scented stock. Too attractive to ignore - which gave me an idea.

My nutty plan of the day is to scatter thickly outdoors a mixture of radish seeds and leave them to get on with it.

All being well, that will give me:-
Roots and leaves to eat,
Flowers to enjoy and attract bees and butterflies,
Seed pods to eat and
Seeds to collect or leave to self seed.

..............and all within a few months. Perfect for the impatient gardener.

[nickdub]

I've let them seed like that a time or two - works well but the only slight downside is that its pretty time consuming separating the seeds from the pods.

[Lumpy]

And she's off...................

[veggiechicken]

I've let them seed like that a time or two - works well but the only slight downside is that its pretty time consuming separating the seeds from the pods.

I'll leave them to do it themselves! I have done this before, by accident, small patches I've forgotten about - I seem to do this a lot.

[Bren In Pots]

I prefer the taste of the seed pods to the actual radishes themselves. so I always let mine go to seed.

[Small pumpkin]

I'm growing them for seed pods this year.
I really need to harvest so to thin them out a bit. I'm struggling with it because I really don't like them

[elsie-scot]

We discovered the lovely flowers and pods last year after sowing loads as DD loves radishes. All ours were white, hope we get some other colours from varieties we sow this year.

[veggiechicken]

That's 10 packets of radish seeds scattered in bed 18R, where the kale cuttings and self seeded parsley live.
How many seeds is that?? Three packets give seed counts - 1200 x 2 and 1000. If I guess at 500 in each of the other packets that' about 7000 radishes to look forward to. Not even sure I like them .

[Sylvan]

How do you eat the seed pods?

[Bren In Pots]

How do you eat the seed pods?

I eat them raw in salads or add to stir-fries, I've seen recipes for pickled pods but I've never tried that.

[nickdub]

How do you eat the seed pods?

Main thing is to pick them when they are young - as they get older they get quite woody. Some have quite a peppery taste.
You need to support the flower spikes too, as they can get very top heavy and just flop over.

[happyhumph]

There's a variety bred specially for long crunchy seedpods - thinks it's called rat tail or something like that....

[4Shoes]

So in a corner of your plot
Pop in a few seeds.
Put up some sheep netting (Horizontal)
Wait
Steal a few radish on the passing
Eat the seed pods - just like the peas.
None ever get to the table.
Job a good one

[Sylvan]

Thanks everryone

[Lumpy]

My normal radish are very slow at the moment. Hey ho!
I grew rats tail a couple of years ago and was not really impressed. Munchen Bier (might be rats tail in disguise) tasted alot better. Thousands of pods which kept a radishphile very very happy.