Planted Labor Day weekend
Harvested for Christmas & New Years
That is a 1 foot rule for scale.
French Breakfast Radish - should be 5-6" and as big as your thumb. Mine are a tiny bit bigger! LOL
Still not woody - great flavor - just 2 or 3 slices fill a sandwich.
Those are great looking radishes, Bubba. I guess I am not "with it" or whatever the common phrase is these days, but I enjoy radishes out of hand or in salads and never heard of making a sandwich w/them. Learning things all the time.
Ann
My stepfather started be making them when I saw about 6. That was over 1/2 century ago.
Fresh bread, some real butter, radish slices, and a little salt-- good stuff.
I've had carrot sandwiches, cucumber sandwiches, green pepper sandwiches, and tomato sandwiches, but never a radish sandwich. LOL! I love radishes, though, so I'm sure I'd like them on bread, too. They look very yummy, Bubba! :-)
I'll have to try Radish Sandwiches. Many years ago when we had Victory Gardens we grew quantities of different radishes. Daddy would allow anyone to throw "his" radishes away. Mother tried cooking them - really awful - in water or something. Anyway, they were non-memorable. So, as Daddy wasn't available during the day to pull the radishes, lots of them got pithy and HAD to be thrown away, thank goodness. Also, he grew gallons of pickling cucumbers - said he didn't like those fake looking long green things - and Mother, thank goodness, made some killer "kosher dills". That's in quotes because the recipe is from a kosher one but we weren't. Then one bumper year we had soooooooooo many pcs Mother w/my help made picallilly (sp?). No one liked it, including Mother. We didn't have room in the house to store all those wonderful jars of stuff so they got stored in the garage. Houston+summer=HOT. During dinner one night we started hearing jars exploding. Sticky, gooey picallilly all over the garage and 2 cars..
Ann
LOL, Ann.
My stepfather taught mom and me to can in tin cans - and to always use the RIGHT ones. There were 3 kinds - plain, one for acids and one for bases. Cans would explode of the wrong ones got loaded. Three pressure cookers going all day during harvest season. Lots of work, but we never went hungry. In addition to veggies and fruit, we canned fish, rabbit, turtle, and chicken. Would have done other game, too, but had big game frozen in the ice house. (northern Minn)
As for cooking radishes - the greens are wonderful, but I don't cook the radishes themselves.
With the freeze coming in a few days, will probably harvest everything I can in next 2 days. Make a big pot of greens - mustard, radish, cilantro, parsley. Will wet and cover the cabbages. Great to NOT have bugs eating them right now. We have harvested some outer leaves for cabbage rolls - perfect!!
Bill
yum, yum Bubba! Guess who's coming to dinner? =)
Debbie,
DW harvested some last night, even added some brussels sprout leaves to the pot of greens.
Found the second year multiplying onions, too. Added them and fresh garlic to the potatoes.
Made some pork steaks, I made the gravy.
Microwave steamed the greens - excellent.
What time do you want dinner?
She is doing a crockpot of beans, ham, leek, carrot, parsley, celery, etc. today. Thought it would be good with the cold weather coming.
The white Ice-cycle radish can get huge, haha and bigger.
We cook them jus like a turnip and serve /butter salt & pepper.
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Many things one can do with them, mash like a tater or make a paste etc...
I like to plant any radish between my tomatoes.
Seems tha bugs accuire a taste for them because they come up so much faster than maters.
I have a post here on DG somewhere /pic's talking about that. Look when i have more time.
I'll have to try cooking them, charlie.
I raised some huge white radishes in Minnesota - also horse radishes.
I also like the idea of "bug magnets" - do you have a "death ray" for the radish eaters?
I'm trying to stay organic - use Murphy's Oil Soap and Pyrola only.
Bubba,
We had stuffed cabbage leaves for New Year's Day! I'm right up the road from you, near Hobby airport! What time IS dinner?
Bubba--you know you are making me drool. Working 2 jobs, I'm lucky I can grab a burger--lol
Good to hear from you--how's the Buffalo shack these days? =)
Debbie,
Since the TV exposure - awsome volume at Bubba's. Hiring new employees.
BTW - the beans were great!
What's with 2 jobs? You doing like me - one pays the bills, one for fun?
Kid entering college and the other is a business to "ease" into retirement with. =)
Like I said - a Fun job! LOL
Good luck. Planted those tomatoes in the wrong end of the garden - lots of stems before the near freeze got them, but no fruit. Would have thought with 3 years the high nitrogen would have been down to a tolerable level - oh well, we have a whole new year to learn new tricks.
Gotta dig up the rest of the radishes by Saturday; need the space for other crops.
Bring "the kid" to Sunday breakfast sometime.
Or I'll run by there after work, you are less than 2 miles from my real job--lol
=) Good talking to you Bubba!
Let me know when - I'm only there Sunday (to work) and sometime friday and saturday evening as a guest.
What TV exposure, and what shack? Bubba, you holding out?
Gymgirl,
I thought you were following the other threads, too. Cooking, recipes, vegetable gardening, etc. I'm all over the place - Love DG ((hugs)). So many great people.
Bubba's Texas Burger Shack was on The Hungry Detective the last week of November.
Same location since 1985 - 5230 Westpark - Houston, TX
I have been doing the Sunday Champagne Breakfast since November 1993.
I work at 59 & Bellaire across from Sharpstown Mall! Are you over near Westpark and Rice, by the Sam's? !!
BUBBA!
I just asked my co-worker, and yep, she says she's passed your place on the way to Sam's! Said you've been there for years!
Look for me, Bubba, I'm droppin' in!
Linda
Yippee! You found us!!
You really serve Bison burgers? Do you do any venison?
No, just buffalo and beef.
But we have (frozen for sale) bison patties, roasts, steaks, hot hogs and sausage.
Small world gymgirl--I work on Bellaire and Hillcroft.
I keep looking at this beautiful pic and can almost taste those radishes.
Thanks, vossner.
Had some last night.
Gotta dig the rest today - starting to get pithy
dmj1218,
Where do you work? I'm next door to Pappas BBQ on 59S @ Bellaire.
Gymgirl, you must come to the next RU and bring some of that Papps BBq w/you!
Ann
Goin' home, now. Happy MLK Day, and let's "Keep the Dream Alive!"
WHAT is the trick to growing radishes and carrots??? I have tried both. My radishes are spindly little things, and the carrots never make it. I LOVE radishes. Will sit and eat a whole bowl of them as a snack. I think to satisy my radish cravings, I would have to have a whole bed just for radishes!
Mary in Grand Prairie
Our soil was so full of clay, that my first attempt was not very good. I added a bale of peatmoss, and 200 # sand and 200 # topsoil, and several years collection of liveloak and other tree leaves. Blended it with a Mantis Tiller. I had plowed the bed with the tiller to a depth of 8-12" before amending it. Actually, I added the same mix of peatmoss and topsoil the year before, but did not add the sand.
I have not tried carrots yet.
I covered the bed with all the leaves from my trees as a blanket this fall/winter, so I still have lots of "green" - the cilantro, dill, parsley, cabbage, brussels sprouts, and kolorabi are still going strong. Almost wish it would quit, so I can blend everything together to begin the spring garden.
Dug up all the remaining "Giants" last Sunday ahead of the "freeze". Still have about a pound of cleaned radishes in water in the refigerator. I love radish sandwishes!
If you liked the radish picture - check out the red cabbage at
http://davesgarden.com/forums/t/678993/
I like radishes better - a WHOLE LOT BETTER - than cabbage, so now that I've seen them (and they ARE beautiful) I'll stick w/the radishes.
Ann
Those cabbage look really good Bubba--I'm having no fun here paying house taxes so thanks for the excuse not to write checks! lol
=)
I hear you Debbie. I try to begin paying in October, so I don't have so many at the end of the year, but this year - every time I accumulated enough $$$, some disaster ate the account. Finally paid them in January.
