I'm 60 and have gardened most of my life and never knew that the pods were edible...You have taught this old dog a new trick. Thank you for sharing this!
I'm 47 and also had no idea. I never had one go to pod before I honestly. I have a ton of pods on two plants rn that I thought were failed/mutant snap pea plants. I was letting it be to see what was up and now I realize it's a stray radish I didn't harvest lolol.
Rachel's face when she eats it raw... Lol. For those who like raw radishes (or salads), the pods are delicious right off the plant. Also, her bee comment is spot on. They seem to particularly enjoy radish flowers.
Some of my radishes never really produced an edible radish, but they did produce the pods, so I ended up with a mixture. One thing that is worth remembering is that you get a lot more produce from pods (e.g. 1 radish can produce many pods), so it is better in some ways...
Yes! My radishes were like WOOD this year! I hated it. I was so sad they weren't the juicy tender ones my MIL grows. But, I did accidently let one go to seed and it's in the same plot as the Kentucky Gold Beans and some green beans that I'd never planted before so I thought it was a mutant green bean! But, I have an app for taking a pic of my plants and it tells me everything I need to know, and when I snapped apic it said it was radish seed! And this is the first video I found and sure enough it had all the info I was looking for...and I am going to look at freezing them for the winter, as I could use it in stir fries and such.
Thank you so much i didn't know you could eat the radish pods, I had a couple plants go to seed and I harvested the seeds well now I have plenty of seeds to plant and let them bloom and have plenty of pods to eat .GOD bless you and keep up the great work and now you need to learn how to can food's and you will be surprised how easy it is and it tastes sooo much better than bought food and much much healthier for you.❤🙏
This just makes me love growing radishes so much more! This is the first year I grew radish, planted them the past fall to help aerate the soil. They were delicious pickled, and I even tried eating the leaves (spicy! 😳). I planted them too closely together, and most of them didn't even produce a good radish size. So I let them go to flower. The really cute flowers were buzzing with pollinators, and now I'm learning that the pods are delicious too!? Such a functional plant! Anyways thank you for trying the pods made different ways. I am absolutely certain I will love them pickled ❤.
I love eating the radish leaves too. Use them any way you would spinach. Raw in a salad or cooked they're great! The younger smaller leaves are best. I'm definitely going to be eating the pods this year now too!
I grow radishes sometimes, but I’ve never let them go to seed which is weird bc I pretty much let everything I plant go to seed. I seen a post on fb the other day that was exactly like one that was in my backyard, and the post said it was radish that had gone to seed, and the pods are edible. I was blown away bc the thing is HUGE, and has tons of seed pods on it. Much more food than just the roots! It came from seed in the bird feeder I found your video when I looked up recipes. Yours are a different variety than mine. Mine are slender and longer. In my case the thinner, greener ones are best. I’m definitely gonna pickle them, sounds delicious! Thanks for sharing your video!
Oh neat! Since your pods are slender and long, also check if it might be another type of brassica, perhaps turnip. Radishes seem to have the shortest, fattest pods compared to others in that family. All are edible, but I think the radish ones are the best.
I'll try stir fry and pickling for sure since I'm surprised at how many of these things I'm collecting in my garden each day. I've been putting them in my salads in replacement of the edamame (bleck) that ruined my enjoyment of salads and it worked. They taste like a peapod and then a slight radish taste (as you demonstrate) which also gets my radish fix and I don't have to cut up a radish to add to a salad... plus the pods aren't overpowering on the radish flavor so if I put a few more than usual in my salad, it's not going to ruin it. You are right about bringing in pollinators too.... I had some small batches of flowers in the garden to attract pollinators, but the first actual bee I saw of the season was loving the flowers from my bolted radishes. The rest of my garden enjoys the benefit of the pollinators, at least I do haha. These pods are a pleasant surprise to bolted radishes that I can't believe I'd hadn't heard of them or ate them before I planted radishes for the first time this year.
I know! Although in the past I've found edible doesn't always equal good haha! I tried carrot-top pesto last year and it was technically edible but SO bitter. So I'm glad these are edible AND tasty.
Supermarkets are so convenient but they've kinda cost us our food traditions. What you get at the market is what matures the quickest and ships the easiest. There are so many parts of plants you can grow and eat that are just not feasible to ship long distances. What percent of the population doesn't realize the ubiquitous green pepper is actually unripe and kinda bitter because the growers needed to pick it and ship it more quickly and easily? Great video. I subscribed.
Remember the leaves are edible too. I dried mine up and ground them down for super greens powder, use like any spice to season meat, in meatloaf/meatballs, soups, stews, throw in smoothies, eggs, etc...
oh me girl;;had to take a look at this;;;;I always cut the tips off as well as the stems;when I throw them in the pickle juice but I also add dehydrated garlic ;;;I also do my beans and peas that way;;;anyway;;enjoged and will be going through some more;;;have a good one
We grow Japanese Daikon Icicle radish and save the seeds. I never thought of eating them but wow, they're a whole new dish. I wonder how they'd be in a stir fry. I'll be trying it out. Thanks so much for the video. Following you from now on.
I love radish seed pods, delicious. Which variety did you harvest, that was an amazing bunch of pods, almost worth growing spring radishes just for the seed pods. Yeah those pickled pods will last several months or more. Light salt, a bit of garlic and a very light shot of Sriracha might be something I'm going to try in the pan. Great video.
These are from black spanish radishes. They're supposed to be a bigger radish so maybe that's why the pods are so prolific? I don't have anything to compare it to though. But I'm thinking I'm getting something like 100 pods per radish I left in the bed. Crazy producer.
Watched your videos on radishes when mine were just sprouting. Most didn't develop good bulbs so I let them turn into trees for the pods. Super worth it. I did find out the hard way not to sit and try to eat a whole bowl of them raw xD Definitely gonna go pickle some later. That's a great idea.
Hey y'all, I have never heard of the radish pods before!! I would love all three ways you showed today. This is a fantastic informative video I'm very impressed great job! I can't wait now to get theses in the ground and just let them grow. Thank you so much bye for now
Wow Thanks for the info! For next years spring radish crop I will let my radishes stay growing & go to seed {pod}! Unfortunately I already cut down this years crop right after it began to flower. Had no idea they developed edible pods till now, all 3 ways of preparing pods to eat look appetizing!
So much rain and humidity out your way this year. We are normally dry our area but this year is starting off much drier than normal. Can never trust the weather. We have been huge fans of pickling over the past couple years and will definitely be trying to get some of those pods and adding them to a few things. Knew they were edible but never tried them before for some reason. Some good info on prepping these. Thanks for the share!
I think weather has just been highly unusual all around this year for most people. For us it was a warm winter followed by a cool spring and now incessant rain. Let me know what you guys think of the pods when you try them!
Awesome, thanks for the idea. I let a few radishes bolt because of one of your other videos and now I've got lots of pods. Hubby loves the way they taste and so do I, thanks for the free veggie tip :)
I will now plant more Radishes and turnips, of many colors and flavors, come spring... then 8 can harvest leaves AND PODS, all summer. Then harvest the "root" late fall/winter time... THAT'S a win... Win...WIN! sow in spring, eat till Winter. That's NO way a fail. Remember to save back seeds too. I save seeds EVERY year. 😉
Thank you for this video , I harvested a few of my radishes and they were really yucky so feeling rather despondent I left the rest where they were . I happened upon your video and channel because I was looking for the reason for my bad tasting radishes. I had quite a pleasant meal of potatoes, bacon and radish pods last night , and they are even better than radishes. Really jolly good .
I grew radishes for the first time this year and I left a couple in the ground just to experiment and they kept getting bigger and bigger and they bolted, then they flowered and the flowers are falling off and now I see those pods on there. it is so awesome to see. Do I try to do anything with the flowers? There are a lot all over the ground. And if I want seeds for next year‘s harvest how will I save the seeds? where will they come from? Are they in the pod or in the flower?
Hmm I'm not sure if there's anything to do with the flowers, but I have a video about saving radish seeds if you want to check that out! th-cam.com/video/gY_iC3R_Y5k/w-d-xo.html
Anda pa mi, dost. Aqui en los rabanos, podemos torshi or pickles. En los tiempos pasados, tuvemos agua con sal. Tambien dos o tres semanas. Ojala! Hay torshi de rabano.
Oh interesting! That seems to be the most common way I've heard of people eating them here so I figured it was standard. They're easily roasted in the over like other vegetables.
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I'm 60 and have gardened most of my life and never knew that the pods were edible...You have taught this old dog a new trick. Thank you for sharing this!
Cool! I'm sure I could learn some things from you as well. I hope you continue to watch and offer advice when you see me doing something stupid haha
Agreed 54 been at it 40 years who knew lol!
I'm 47 and also had no idea. I never had one go to pod before I honestly. I have a ton of pods on two plants rn that I thought were failed/mutant snap pea plants. I was letting it be to see what was up and now I realize it's a stray radish I didn't harvest lolol.
We cook these here in pakistan with potatoes and its tasty.
We can always learn! ❤ that thing off old dogs saying is a lie!
Get some pods. Add butter, salt, pepper, parsly. Put in microwave for 3:30. Enjoy.
Rachel's face when she eats it raw... Lol. For those who like raw radishes (or salads), the pods are delicious right off the plant. Also, her bee comment is spot on. They seem to particularly enjoy radish flowers.
Some of my radishes never really produced an edible radish, but they did produce the pods, so I ended up with a mixture. One thing that is worth remembering is that you get a lot more produce from pods (e.g. 1 radish can produce many pods), so it is better in some ways...
You're so right! It's not the same as having the root, but it's definitely not a loss.
If it gets to hot they stop making a raddish and make flowers/pods
Yes! My radishes were like WOOD this year! I hated it. I was so sad they weren't the juicy tender ones my MIL grows. But, I did accidently let one go to seed and it's in the same plot as the Kentucky Gold Beans and some green beans that I'd never planted before so I thought it was a mutant green bean! But, I have an app for taking a pic of my plants and it tells me everything I need to know, and when I snapped apic it said it was radish seed! And this is the first video I found and sure enough it had all the info I was looking for...and I am going to look at freezing them for the winter, as I could use it in stir fries and such.
I have always knew the pods were edible, but today I learned I could pickle them. Great job friend!! 😊
Thanks! :D
Thank you so much i didn't know you could eat the radish pods, I had a couple plants go to seed and I harvested the seeds well now I have plenty of seeds to plant and let them bloom and have plenty of pods to eat .GOD bless you and keep up the great work and now you need to learn how to can food's and you will be surprised how easy it is and it tastes sooo much better than bought food and much much healthier for you.❤🙏
This just makes me love growing radishes so much more! This is the first year I grew radish, planted them the past fall to help aerate the soil. They were delicious pickled, and I even tried eating the leaves (spicy! 😳). I planted them too closely together, and most of them didn't even produce a good radish size. So I let them go to flower. The really cute flowers were buzzing with pollinators, and now I'm learning that the pods are delicious too!? Such a functional plant! Anyways thank you for trying the pods made different ways. I am absolutely certain I will love them pickled ❤.
Th k you for the video. We certainly could not figure out what was growing. Glad we can eat the pods. Cheers Vancouver Island Canada
I love eating the radish leaves too. Use them any way you would spinach. Raw in a salad or cooked they're great! The younger smaller leaves are best. I'm definitely going to be eating the pods this year now too!
I came to your channel to find out how to save radish seeds, but now I want to eat them!
Love it when I can teach people new things!
You taught me something new. Thank you Rachel.
I grow radishes sometimes, but I’ve never let them go to seed which is weird bc I pretty much let everything I plant go to seed. I seen a post on fb the other day that was exactly like one that was in my backyard, and the post said it was radish that had gone to seed, and the pods are edible. I was blown away bc the thing is HUGE, and has tons of seed pods on it. Much more food than just the roots! It came from seed in the bird feeder I found your video when I looked up recipes. Yours are a different variety than mine. Mine are slender and longer. In my case the thinner, greener ones are best. I’m definitely gonna pickle them, sounds delicious! Thanks for sharing your video!
Oh neat! Since your pods are slender and long, also check if it might be another type of brassica, perhaps turnip. Radishes seem to have the shortest, fattest pods compared to others in that family. All are edible, but I think the radish ones are the best.
@@AuxhartGardening I’ll check, but they do taste just like radishes.
This is fantastic, thank you! I'll save some for seed, preserves some and eat some cooked!👍
Very versatile little things, aren't they?!
excellent. I ate my first pod the other day after my gardening buddy tried one.
I'll try stir fry and pickling for sure since I'm surprised at how many of these things I'm collecting in my garden each day. I've been putting them in my salads in replacement of the edamame (bleck) that ruined my enjoyment of salads and it worked. They taste like a peapod and then a slight radish taste (as you demonstrate) which also gets my radish fix and I don't have to cut up a radish to add to a salad... plus the pods aren't overpowering on the radish flavor so if I put a few more than usual in my salad, it's not going to ruin it.
You are right about bringing in pollinators too.... I had some small batches of flowers in the garden to attract pollinators, but the first actual bee I saw of the season was loving the flowers from my bolted radishes. The rest of my garden enjoys the benefit of the pollinators, at least I do haha. These pods are a pleasant surprise to bolted radishes that I can't believe I'd hadn't heard of them or ate them before I planted radishes for the first time this year.
" this is a great way to take advantage of that failure" Too funny! Helpful too. :)
It's so cool how much more than just what we consider the edible parts of different plants are actually edible!
I know! Although in the past I've found edible doesn't always equal good haha! I tried carrot-top pesto last year and it was technically edible but SO bitter. So I'm glad these are edible AND tasty.
Supermarkets are so convenient but they've kinda cost us our food traditions. What you get at the market is what matures the quickest and ships the easiest. There are so many parts of plants you can grow and eat that are just not feasible to ship long distances. What percent of the population doesn't realize the ubiquitous green pepper is actually unripe and kinda bitter because the growers needed to pick it and ship it more quickly and easily?
Great video. I subscribed.
Remember the leaves are edible too. I dried mine up and ground them down for super greens powder, use like any spice to season meat, in meatloaf/meatballs, soups, stews, throw in smoothies, eggs, etc...
Yeah! Sounds like you're making the most of yours.
oh me girl;;had to take a look at this;;;;I always cut the tips off as well as the stems;when I throw them in the pickle juice but I also add dehydrated garlic ;;;I also do my beans and peas that way;;;anyway;;enjoged and will be going through some more;;;have a good one
We grow Japanese Daikon Icicle radish and save the seeds. I never thought of eating them but wow, they're a whole new dish. I wonder how they'd be in a stir fry. I'll be trying it out. Thanks so much for the video. Following you from now on.
Awesome, glad I could help! I'm glad to have you :)
Thank you! We were wondering what to do with the pods that we grew from the heirloom seeds we had. Great that you gave us the 3 ways to prepare them!
Glad I could be of help!
I love radish seed pods, delicious. Which variety did you harvest, that was an amazing bunch of pods, almost worth growing spring radishes just for the seed pods. Yeah those pickled pods will last several months or more. Light salt, a bit of garlic and a very light shot of Sriracha might be something I'm going to try in the pan. Great video.
These are from black spanish radishes. They're supposed to be a bigger radish so maybe that's why the pods are so prolific? I don't have anything to compare it to though. But I'm thinking I'm getting something like 100 pods per radish I left in the bed. Crazy producer.
Watched your videos on radishes when mine were just sprouting. Most didn't develop good bulbs so I let them turn into trees for the pods. Super worth it. I did find out the hard way not to sit and try to eat a whole bowl of them raw xD
Definitely gonna go pickle some later. That's a great idea.
Hey y'all, I have never heard of the radish pods before!! I would love all three ways you showed today. This is a fantastic informative video I'm very impressed great job! I can't wait now to get theses in the ground and just let them grow. Thank you so much bye for now
I just ordered Rat Tail radish seeds and can't wait to try that pickle recipe....THANK YOU!
Awesome, I'm so excited for you!
Awesome, I’m trying this. Thanks 😀
You're welcome! I hope it goes well for you!
I like to collect types of vegetable plants that can grow the flower...
because it can be edible, they can also be used as tourist attractions
We encountered this same situation! Thank you for the eating method and make us feel not a failure!
I'm so glad I could help!
Wow Thanks for the info! For next years spring radish crop I will let my radishes stay growing & go to seed {pod}! Unfortunately I already cut down this years crop right after it began to flower. Had no idea they developed edible pods till now, all 3 ways of preparing pods to eat look appetizing!
You're very welcome! I hope you have good luck with it next year!
Thanks :)
So much rain and humidity out your way this year. We are normally dry our area but this year is starting off much drier than normal. Can never trust the weather. We have been huge fans of pickling over the past couple years and will definitely be trying to get some of those pods and adding them to a few things. Knew they were edible but never tried them before for some reason. Some good info on prepping these. Thanks for the share!
I think weather has just been highly unusual all around this year for most people. For us it was a warm winter followed by a cool spring and now incessant rain.
Let me know what you guys think of the pods when you try them!
Awesome, thanks for the idea. I let a few radishes bolt because of one of your other videos and now I've got lots of pods. Hubby loves the way they taste and so do I, thanks for the free veggie tip :)
That is awesome!
Thank you.
I never knew that the pods were edible, may let some of mine go to seed to try them? Thanks for the great video. Have a blessed weekend. 👍🏻
Thank you! You too!
Just found your channel! Great stuff, thank you for sharing and showing in detail your methods and results.
Good to have you! :)
Great information on using your radish pods.
Take care and stay safe,
Rob
I'm glad you found it helpful! Hope you're staying safe as well.
Hello Rachel,thank you for this video 👌 like will definitely be giving this ago this year....how interesting.All the very best UK England 🌱🌱🌱💕🌞
Hi Joyce! Thanks for watching. I hope it works out really well for you!
I will now plant more Radishes and turnips, of many colors and flavors, come spring... then 8 can harvest leaves AND PODS, all summer. Then harvest the "root" late fall/winter time...
THAT'S a win... Win...WIN!
sow in spring, eat till Winter. That's NO way a fail.
Remember to save back seeds too.
I save seeds EVERY year. 😉
Thanks
I've never tried the pods before. The next time I plant radishes, I'm going to let some bolt and try them.
Let me know how that goes! Apparently this works for other similar plants that make these pods like turnips and kale as well.
I make shaak out of it. Just heat oil, add mustard seeds and season them with salt, turmeric, cumin-corriander and chilly pepper.
Thanks for the recipe recommendation! That sounds delicious.
I did not know the pods were edible! I’m excited to try these out now!
Glad I'm able to help! Let me know how it goes!
Rachel Andorfer will do! I’m gonna be trying them as soon as I get a few more! Can’t wait to share my experience as well.
Interesting...thanks for this video! I'm gonna try it! Keep up the good work.
You're welcome! Please come back and let me know how it goes when you do try.
Thank you for this video , I harvested a few of my radishes and they were really yucky so feeling rather despondent I left the rest where they were . I happened upon your video and channel because I was looking for the reason for my bad tasting radishes. I had quite a pleasant meal of potatoes, bacon and radish pods last night , and they are even better than radishes. Really jolly good .
That's awesome! I'm so happy for you.
I grew radishes for the first time this year and I left a couple in the ground just to experiment and they kept getting bigger and bigger and they bolted, then they flowered and the flowers are falling off and now I see those pods on there. it is so awesome to see. Do I try to do anything with the flowers? There are a lot all over the ground. And if I want seeds for next year‘s harvest how will I save the seeds? where will they come from? Are they in the pod or in the flower?
Hmm I'm not sure if there's anything to do with the flowers, but I have a video about saving radish seeds if you want to check that out! th-cam.com/video/gY_iC3R_Y5k/w-d-xo.html
thank you I thought the same thing. Thank god I didnt pull all the radishes out.:)
You're welcome!
Anda pa mi, dost. Aqui en los rabanos, podemos torshi or pickles.
En los tiempos pasados, tuvemos agua con sal. Tambien dos o tres semanas. Ojala! Hay torshi de rabano.
Hi! I don't speak Spanish, but thanks for visiting my channel!
Great video! Thanks! I'll subscribe
blenched them for 3 min n add to your salad of your choice
Better to lactoferment with a salt brine. Vinegar pickle juice isn't nearly as nutritious.
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My kids eat tons of pickles and i hate throwing away thr brime
my radish did not give the red part so i let them bloom. eat some leaves. so I can pick the pods and still have edible from these plants.
What attacked your fence?
Bye Kitty
wow... she turns out that radish flowers can be eaten
Hi cat
What time do you plant? I'm in zone 8a.
For radishes? I planted these ones in February.
Id have gone in a different direction with pickling them. Dill is a bit overwhelming given their delicate flavor.
What sort of flavors would you use? I'm not very experienced with other pickling flavors.
I love them raw but never tried cooking them
Oh interesting! That seems to be the most common way I've heard of people eating them here so I figured it was standard. They're easily roasted in the over like other vegetables.
You can cook this with indian cooking method ..
That sounds cool! Would you share a recipe?
What kind of radishes are these? Those pods are a lot bigger than mine.
Black Spanish Radish
I like the pods better than the radish.
Haha I wish I had actually harvested a radish to compare to, but oh well. The pods are worth it.
you are very pretty
You’re so cute
You’re so darn cute
This is good since radishes grow best in my garden but taste like shit
Haha! Have you tried growing them in colder months? Sometimes things like this taste better after a frost.
oh man, i didn't realize i wouldn't get radishes if they got their pods 😭😭😭
-hilary