Radishes

[czechsonofagun]

My family grew a bed of radishes for me. Love red radishes, it is a very popular vegetable in my original country, everybody grows some in the garden. Fresh radish has a nice afterburn in mouth, my son - 12 - liked them at first but refused the second one

Fresh radishes sliced and on buttered bread - excellent.

You can buy them in USA, but they don't seem too popular, same for kohlrabi. Also celery root is very important in the cuisine of central Europe - hard to find in the store in USA.

I am not profiling here , just pointing out differences.

 

[Chuck52]

I really like fresh radishes but I didn't plant any this year. I don't seem to have a lot of luck growing them, though they should be easy. I did plant kohlrabi. Gonna put in some fennel, too, the bulb kind. Must be the Food Channel influence.

Chuck

 

[Transit]

Look through the seed catalogs on line, not what you find in the store racks, tons to choose from, red, white, black, giant, hot, cool.

 

[Egon]

Nothing like a dish of nice fresh young radishes with a dash of salt.:thumbsup:

And in a salad they are pretty darned good to.

 

[Mace Canute]

Our garden always had radish when I was on the farm, the little round bright red ones, and I love them but unfortunately they don't love me! If I have more than one, they come back to haunt me later!

 

[keegs]

If you just get the tops and no radish I think you may need to work a little bone meal into the soil before planting and then thin the rows once they're up. Carrots same.

 

[czechsonofagun]

Look through the seed catalogs on line, not what you find in the store racks, tons to choose from, red, white, black, giant, hot, cool.

My dad used to eat white ones - back than I couldn't, they were too strong, maybe now, when my taste buds are all worn out, I would handle them better

 

[NativeSon]

I like the white ones (icicle) too. I don't find them too hot.

 

[Bird]

We seldom think to buy radishes, but when we had our own garden, we always had fresh radishes in the Spring, preferably the little round red ones. But they didn't last long into the Summer. In the Fall, I always planted turnips, so I decided to try planting radishes also. The Fall radishes actually did better than the Spring ones; lasted longer and even the biggest ones were never pithy. The attached photo was taken November 4, 2001, of radishes (and you can see a turnip in the upper left corner) planted on September 3, 2001.

 

[czechsonofagun]

Nice ones, Bird

They go well with beer, too.