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06.06.2023 - 19:23 / gardenerspath.com / Rose Kennedy
Can You Eat Radish Greens? How to Use Radish LeavesI hate to be the one to break this to you, but you may have been wasting a delicious opportunity to harvest homegrown leafy greens.
Do you grow radishes? Did you know you can eat the greens as well as those crispy, spicy roots? The trusty spring and fall veggie garden staple, Raphanus sativus, produces edible leaves in the early stages of its growing cycle.
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You can harvest them at full-size along with the red, white, or Easter-egg-hued roots that are such a delight for home cooks.
Or you can skip the root harvest altogether and focus on growing radish sprouts or microgreens instead.
The latter harvest option can provide baby leaves to use much like baby kale or spinach, for salads, braising, or stir fries.
Coming up, I’ll share which sizes of radish greens taste best, and how to tell if the plants are too big to eat. I’ll also go over how and when to pick this bonus crop.
Ready, set, radish! Here’s the lineup:
Are Radish Greens Edible?If you’ve never noticed before that radish tops look much like other leafy greens you might grow in your garden, give them a gander.
Not only do the leaves and stalks resemble some types of mustard or turnip greens, the leaves have a similar flavor profile – earthy and a bit spicy.
Spring-sown crops produce roots that mature in 21 to 35 days. Their greens are technically edible at every stage of growth, but they taste best when harvested before they develop a hot flavor due to aging or exposure to prolonged heat.
They’re a bit like the traditional radish crop that way!
The spring varieties produce microgreens and baby leaves suitable for
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