[MomwithHope]

Hi all, everything is growing well here finally. Have most of the garden planted, tomatoes, peppers, cukes, broccoli, radishes (fingers crossed as usual), herbs, beans, asparagus still coming in, have carrots, beets, chard left to plant and then I will probably be out of room. In our woods the mayapples are plentiful this year and it could be a good crop if I can beat the raccoons to them. It’s on my bucket list to try mayapple jelly. I even found a dozen wide mouth pint canning jars brand new with the lids and rings at a garage sale for 3.00 so it must be meant to be this year. Fingers crossed on the radishes because most years they bolt and I don’t get any or just a few. I have tried most every variety I can find.

[greeneyes]

Hubby had some sort of radishes that he swears had “cabbage” in the name. He planted them expecting cabbage, but he got a bunch of long cylindrical radishes instead. They make a good catch crop even if they do bolt.

[Ellendra]

If you let the radishes bolt, you can pick the young seedpods and use them like radishes.

I had some purple radishes that were free with my order one time. When they bolted, they just kept pumping out those little radish pods, the thing looked like a porcupine!

(Too bad I don’t like radishes. I only planted them for my dad, and he didn’t like the look of the seedpods.)