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What will it be like in, say, a 9" pot?

Short? How about in a longer piece of plastic drain pipe?

How long are those roots then?

Three or four feet.

Hell's delight

Franz

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What will it be like in, say, a 9" pot?

Rather cramped....

Unless that 4 ft root finds the drainage hole?

Franz

On Wed, 12 May 2004 07:59:15 +0000 (UTC), "Franz Heymann"
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I don't think we will eat enough horseradish in all of our
remaining
years to warrant anything like it.
We'll just have to go on buying it at the grocer. {:-))

Have you tried it as a root vegetable?

No.
How do you prepare it?
What does it taste like?
Does the preparation get rid of the bite?
Does it have any after effects?

Whilst googling for something else a couple of weeks ago I saw
Horseradish was on a list of poisonous plants.

Is horseradish the same as "radi" radish sold in Bavarian beer halls
and festivals in spirals? If so the application of salt removes the
bite.

On Wed, 12 May 2004 07:59:16 +0000 (UTC), "Franz Heymann"
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"Jaques d'Alltrades" wrote in
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What will it be like in, say, a 9" pot?

Short? How about in a longer piece of plastic drain pipe?

How long are those roots then?

Three or four feet.

Hell's delight

they've doubled in size in two days too

On Tue, 11 May 2004 12:10:52 GMT, Frogleg wrote:

On Sun, 9 May 2004 19:33:43 +0100, "Dan Welch"
wrote:

I'd like to grow horseradish but have never seen plants / seeds for sale.
Any ideas where I might be able to get hold of one or the other?

If you have access to any fresh horseradish root, just cut a chunk and
bury. As others have posted, it is *extremely* invasive, so should be
confined in a pot. Mine grew a shoot through a side drain-hole, which
then took root in a pavement crack.

Now, I have just has an idea.

Just over the road from me, on the common. a large patch of Japanese
Knotweed has appeared.

If I planted some Horseradish in the middle of the infestation. Who
would win?

Rick....

Rick wrote:

If I planted some Horseradish in the middle of the infestation. Who
would win?

Sounds like the basis for a bad Japanese monster movie.
Think "Godzilla vs. Mothra."


Gary Woods AKA K2AHC- PGP key on request, or at www.albany.net/~gwoods
Zone 5/6 in upstate New York, 1420' elevation. NY WO G

On 12 May 2004 05:48:14 -0500, Rick wrote:

Now, I have just has an idea.

Just over the road from me, on the common. a large patch of Japanese
Knotweed has appeared.

If I planted some Horseradish in the middle of the infestation. Who
would win?

The problem with invasive plants is that they *don't* crowd each other
out. Vinca, honeysuckle (vine), wild grape, mint and ivy all coexist
in great profusion in my back yard (garden).

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On Tue, 11 May 2004 12:10:52 GMT, Frogleg wrote:

On Sun, 9 May 2004 19:33:43 +0100, "Dan Welch"
wrote:

I'd like to grow horseradish but have never seen plants / seeds for
sale.
Any ideas where I might be able to get hold of one or the other?

If you have access to any fresh horseradish root, just cut a chunk and
bury. As others have posted, it is *extremely* invasive, so should be
confined in a pot. Mine grew a shoot through a side drain-hole, which
then took root in a pavement crack.

Now, I have just has an idea.

Just over the road from me, on the common. a large patch of Japanese
Knotweed has appeared.

If I planted some Horseradish in the middle of the infestation. Who
would win?

Rick....

Prolly combine into a new menace - Japanese Knotradish - and invade the
nation....

(yeah, I know this defies botanical science, but hey some of us like to get
our kicks from fantasising about new monster plants :-) )

--
Richard Sampson

email me at
richard at olifant d-ot co do-t uk

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Last weekend I lifted it again (careful not dig well under and
around it)
and re-planted it in a full-size-cheapo-wickes-dustbin (minus the
bottom,
cut out for drainage) that I'd just sunk in the ground.

I don't think we will eat enough horseradish in all of our remaining
years to warrant anything like it.
We'll just have to go on buying it at the grocer. {:-))

Franz


My wife's ability to consume vast amounts of horseradish has to be seen to
be believed. Hotter the better as well it seems.

hoping the fresh stuff is potent enough to keep her happy, and that her
appitite is voracious enough to keep the plant in check...

:-)

--
Richard Sampson

email me at
richard at olifant d-ot co do-t uk

In article , Dan Welch
writes
Hello,
I'd like to grow horseradish but have never seen plants / seeds for sale.
Any ideas where I might be able to get hold of one or the other?
All help appreciated
cheers
dan
Where are you located?
--
Roy Bailey
West Berkshire.

Roy Bailey wrote:

In article , Dan Welch
writes
Hello,
I'd like to grow horseradish but have never seen plants / seeds for sale.
Any ideas where I might be able to get hold of one or the other?
All help appreciated
cheers
dan
Where are you located?

I found a supply in a chain of shops called wilkinsons normally this time of
year or earlier you will get a root cutting which quickly multiplies

Cheers

Gary

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No.
How do you prepare it?

Peel it and either boil it or roast it round meat like parsnips. You
might need to wear gogles while preparing it......

What does it taste like?

How do you describe an unique flavour? (It's years since I had it as a
vegetable.)

Does the preparation get rid of the bite?

The worst of it.

Does it have any after effects?

If, by 'after', you mean the 'after' effects of chillis, no.

--
Rusty
Open the creaking gate to make a horrid.squeak, then lower the foobar.
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Now, I have just has an idea.

Just over the road from me, on the common. a large patch of Japanese
Knotweed has appeared.

If I planted some Horseradish in the middle of the infestation. Who
would win?

The Knotweed.

--
Rusty
Open the creaking gate to make a horrid.squeak, then lower the foobar.
http://www.users.zetnet.co.uk/hi-fi/

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On 12 May 2004 05:48:14 -0500, Rick wrote:

Now, I have just has an idea.

Just over the road from me, on the common. a large patch of Japanese
Knotweed has appeared.

If I planted some Horseradish in the middle of the infestation. Who
would win?

The problem with invasive plants is that they *don't* crowd each other
out. Vinca, honeysuckle (vine), wild grape, mint and ivy all coexist
in great profusion in my back yard (garden).

But Knotweed will shade-out even persistent weeds.

--
Rusty
Open the creaking gate to make a horrid.squeak, then lower the foobar.
http://www.users.zetnet.co.uk/hi-fi/

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What will it be like in, say, a 9" pot?

Short? How about in a longer piece of plastic drain pipe?

How long are those roots then?

Three or four feet.

Hell's delight

'Swhat makes Hell so hot.....

--
Rusty
Open the creaking gate to make a horrid.squeak, then lower the foobar.
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