Thanks for the "roasted radish" tip!
DogsNDaylilies said:
It's always nice to hear about things that can grow at all in clay soil, but even better to fond something useful in breaking it up! I'm not sites how I feel about having a yard full of too-spicy-to-eat radishes. Maybe I could try it with small patches at a time. 
If you plant them at the wrong time, they make hardly any roots, but instead lots of seed pods. That was how I got some reseeding going. Once they reseed, they "know" when to germinate so as to make roots instead of pods.
When I complained online about my wrong planting time, someone told me that the pods are edible. They are - and tasty! Just a little heat but a very nice flavor and crunchy texture.
I found my packet, and added it to the swap list. But those seeds are from 2011. Still, a teaspoon of large seeds should give you enough germination to get a row. Think of the old seeds as "self-thinning".
