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    The versatile radish!

    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.
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    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.

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    • #3
      And she's off...................
      I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work. Thomas A. Edison

      Outreach co-ordinator for the Gnome, Pixie and Fairy groups within the Nutters Club.

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      • #4
        Originally posted by nickdub View Post
        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.

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        • #5
          I prefer the taste of the seed pods to the actual radishes themselves. so I always let mine go to seed.
          Location....East Midlands.

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          • #6
            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

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            • #7
              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.
              Elsie

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              • #8
                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 .

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                • #9
                  How do you eat the seed pods?
                  The problem with rounded personalities is they don't tesselate.

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                  • #10
                    Originally posted by Sylvan View Post
                    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.
                    Location....East Midlands.

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                    • #11
                      Originally posted by Sylvan View Post
                      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.

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                      • #12
                        There's a variety bred specially for long crunchy seedpods - thinks it's called rat tail or something like that....
                        Another happy Nutter...

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                        • #13
                          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
                          Last edited by 4Shoes; 03-05-2018, 04:47 PM.

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                          • #14
                            Thanks everryone
                            The problem with rounded personalities is they don't tesselate.

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                            • #15
                              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.
                              I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work. Thomas A. Edison

                              Outreach co-ordinator for the Gnome, Pixie and Fairy groups within the Nutters Club.

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