Harvested several small radishes today. They're cooking as I type.

Beautiful!

Lovely harvest, Anne. I've never cooked radishes. Do they become soft? How do you prepare them?

NMoasis said: Lovely harvest, Anne. I've never cooked radishes. Do they become soft? How do you prepare them?

Simply cut the very tops and bottoms off, slice them (you can leave little ones whole if you want), put them on stove with just enough water. Bring them to a boil then turn to low heat and cook under they're tender enough to poke a fork all the way through the bulb easily. Red ones lose their color. They become tender quickly, like ten minutes more or less depending on how tender you want them. Cooking too long can make them so soft they'll practically fall apart with pricked with the fork. Drain and season with salt.

Interesting, thanks Anne.

NMoasis said: I've never cooked radishes. Do they become soft? How do you prepare them?

In a totally different method, I like to roast them.

Pretty much the same prep of cutting the ends and halving them. I lay them on a non-stick or oiled pan and lightly spray with oil. The oil is mostly so the various spices I add depending on mood stick. Typically I'll roast at 350 (what the oven turns on at) or whatever temp something else I am cooking requires. Cook till they are relatively soft. At ~350ish they stay mostly red. The radish bite moderates when cooked but is still clearly there. That's my main driver for cooking them.

A little bit of chili powder or cayenne pepper is an interesting spice combo. A little bit of pepper fire with the radish taste complement is...we'll call it fun.

That sounds good. I'm kind of indifferent toward raw radishes, but I like to grow them. I might try that method.

I've never cooked them, either; I wonder how they would be "pickled" ? I'm especially wondering if I could finely shred and pickle them and having something akin to horseradish? (or maybe I should just grow some horseradish LOL)

I love a mild fresh red radish.
I also grow a mild large fall radish, works as a fresh crisp snack or cooked veg as well. I dice them for soup and they pass as potatoes.

I don't know why I've never thought to try throwing some sliced radishes into a stir-fry!

Weedwhacker said: I've never cooked them, either; I wonder how they would be "pickled" ?

I've done a quick pickle with the seed pods but not the radishes themselves. They start off more mild, but radishy, to begin with. I don't recall that it affected the radish flavor much. It did produce an interesting vinegar sour combined with the radish flavor.

...and now I want to try fermenting the roots. Maybe mixed with some cabbage that I have the best luck with getting a ferment going as a kind of saur-radish-kraut.

It is seed starting time here. Today I sowed 8 different basils with lots of seeds of each. I sowed my eggplant Annina. I sowed my Lola Sweet Banana Peppers.

Last year I did not start any eggplant or Peppers. That was a mistake. This year not going crazy but am planning to plant some of each.

Next up sow the tomato seeds.

I started the day by filling up all my cellpacks so that I am ready for sowing.

All my veggie seeds that I start in March are done and sowed. My basils, tomatoes, peppers and eggplants. We will see later if I want to sow cucumbers in cellpacks or direct sow. These past few years I have been doing the direct sowing.

Flower seeds get sowed later.

These were onions sets I planted in the fall. They have started picking up speed recently. I wonder when to start pulling dirt away from the bulbs for bulb growth as I have read about?

I have not grown zuchinni in these past few years. But I do like it. My neighbor was just urging me to grow somee because she really likes to cook it.


And she is a fabulous cook and shares with me.

So I ordered seed from Harris Sunday when they had a free shipping day. I guess I will be starting a few plants.

Squash vine borers love zucchini. Start early and try to get ahead of them.

sallyg said: Squash vine borers love zucchini. Start early and try to get ahead of them.

I know. I get the SVB bugs each year that I tey to grow zuchinni. But by the time the vines start to die I have flooded the enrire neighborhood with zuchinni.

Lucky you! Mine have died outright or maybe one fruit.

Sally, I never "pull dirt away" from the onion bulbs (and I don't remember ever seeing that recommended). Maybe @farmerdill knows more about it

sallyg said: Lucky you! Mine have died outright or maybe one fruit.

That is sad.