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Melissa Mead
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Posted: 02 May 2015 at 19:22 |
Anybody know any good uses for full-grown radish leaves?
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They make a wonderful slightly bitter pesto Melissa, or you can wilt them and serve them up not.
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Go ahead...play with your food!
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Melissa Mead
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Sounds good! Thanks!
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Alternatively, depending where you have them in the garden, they are good companions plants. Among other things, they help repel cucumber beetles, and are a trap plant for flea beetles.
Also, if you let them bolt, the seed pods, pickled, make a tasty addition to salads. Or they can sub for capers. |
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Having had previous problems with cucumber beetles...that is huge advice! The additional information, on the seed pods, is equally welcome advice as well! Thanks
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Enjoy The Food!
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Melissa Mead
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Yes, thank you!
These were store-bought. I sauteed them, plus some "home grown" dandelion greens, with half a sweet onion, a stalk of celery, a radish, and a couple of chopped-up links of breakfast sausage. It was good! |
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Plant some seeds, eat radishes, radish greens and radish seed pods.
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HistoricFoodie
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Dan, when you plant your cukes, put a row of radishes about 4 inches outboard of the cucumbers on each side of the trellis. That'll help deter the little beasties.
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Next time I plant cukes...I'll do just that...thanks! I was surprised at how quickly they take over...you find that you have a problem...then they're all over the rest of your crop! These are the same guys that took my squash before too, aren't they? thanks!
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Technically, Dan, squash bugs and cucumber beetles are different critters.
Squash bugs tend to grow larger. I control them, primarily, by hand-picking and---pardon the pun---squashing them. Both can be controlled with organic and synthetic insecticides if that's your proclivity. The one that's a real bitch to control is the squash vine borer. It's larvae burrow into the stem, just above ground level, and the plant dies. An interesting aside: Pioneer gardeners didn't have to cope with the myriad of pests we contend with, as most of them were imported from Europe and the Far East. |
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Another cutey we have a lot of here is the leaf footed shield beetle.
It is a prime candidate for squishing, too! |
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