Comments on: I Growed It!

By: Marieke

Marieke — Fri, 11 Jun 2010 19:29:26 +0000

If your radishes are too peppery, you could try giving them more water. That usually gives a milder taste. Unfortunately all my radishes were contaminated with white little worms. I have good hopes for my Chinese radishes though.

Thank you Kristen for the recipe for radish leaves! I'm trying that next year.

By: Kristen

Kristen — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 06:02:07 +0000

You should remove the leaves once they're picked. You can store them separately for 2-3 days or just discard. You can eat them simply, for example stir fried with onion and tossed with some pasta, or added to soup.

By: lindamade

lindamade — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 04:12:10 +0000

awww, it would be hard to be mad a such a determined little doggie! thanks for sharing your story.
hopefully i'll have lots to report from TNNA….

By: lindamade

lindamade — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 04:11:21 +0000

how do you prep the greens? I might try that with the next batch, although with this batch i don't think they'll last till next week w/greens attached …

By: Kristen

Kristen — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 01:49:30 +0000

My sister has strawberries, though they're planted in the ground. She just cared for them like any other plant, and they survived the winter okay. Now she's harvesting way more strawberries than she got from them last year. I assume you can just keep yours in its pot, maybe prune it back a little, and hopefully get some more from it in years to come. I thought about doing a potted strawberry, but I just have tomatoes and peppers instead. My pots are actually all doing better than the ones I planted in our community garden.

By: Kristen

Kristen — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 01:38:06 +0000

Radishes will keep well refrigerated for a week, maybe more. Pick them when they're small (they'll be more tender and taste better). Remove the greens before storing them, as they'll remove moisture and nutrients. You can eat the greens too if you like.

By: Nadia

Nadia — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 00:54:06 +0000

I love your radish. i have not a little garden of my own for many years but I too found my radish plants were the most robust of all my little plants, and would sprout up without much assistance or bother from me. It's too bad that my little dog had a penchant for radishes, he would carefully dig at the soil to check if they were big enough and then gobble them up when they were ready. So cute that I never minded…
I can't wait to hear about TNNA,
Nadia xx

By: Sarahsavon2003

Sarahsavon2003 — Wed, 09 Jun 2010 22:11:49 +0000

I have no clue…that is what I did. It looks like one survived, and one didn't.I let the 4 year old scare the bunnies away ( if I catch them).

By: lindamade

lindamade — Wed, 09 Jun 2010 21:49:54 +0000

Aww. I'd rather have a 4 year old eating my peas than a squirrel, though
Question for you–what am I supposed to do with the strawberry plant when it's not strawberry season? Just let it stay in it's pot and hope for the best?

By: Sarahsavon2003

Sarahsavon2003 — Wed, 09 Jun 2010 21:15:20 +0000

peas are about the only thing that is thriving in my garden. My 4 year old loves to eat them right off the vine, so I planted about a 4×3 bed of plants. We have been picking a few pods at a time since last week. Today we harvested about 10 pods–3 of them were actually fully grown ( he likes them small too). I am hoping he will let more fully mature. Next year is going to be my year for other veggies.

I have blueberry bushes and a pot of strawberries. Another pot of strawberries seems to have died over the winter…