Pod radishes?

Anybody ever grow or eat one of these? I found a picture of one on a Mr. Bento porn site. Not what you're thinking btw...it's a website dedicated to Mr. Bento lunchboxes and displaying the different lunches people make up. The person had lemon cucumbers (which many of you already grow) and pod radishes (which I'd never heard of but are radishes with the edible part being a pod that is harvested like green beans but supposedly with the flavor of radish).

Just wondering about the texture and taste of them.

This message was edited Jul 30, 2006 1:01 AM

I have read about them, seen the seed advertised, but have never tried them. I have let radishes go to seed with the intention of using the pods, but I never did. The pods I got were about an inch long and looked like a not very shiny pea pod. I understand people fry them up and eat them. I hope you will try them then let me know.
Betty

I grew them this year, but with no luck. The area I was growing them in went to weed, and I just couldn't keep up with it. I will defintiely try them again. I need to check the maturity date to see if I have time to set in another crop.

Ok, I just checked, it's 50 days, so if I do it right away, I can probably squeek them in! You probably have a longer growing season down there. Would you like a few seeds to try?

I've eaten the pod radishes and they're very tasty. The varieties called 'pod radish' tend to grow bigger pods than your other radishes but I eat the pods from regular radish also. However, beware...

...as I said above "they're very tasty" and one year I just kept grazing on them all day long while working in the garden. Yummy! But the outcome was that those little boogers tend to work like (if not better than!) psyllium seed! Yep, you guessed it, I was a very busy boy the next day! ô¿ô

Shoe

I'm c'fused. I never saw pods on regular radishes!

Let them go to seed, Sequee, There are several cultivars grown exclusively for thier seedpods. Rat Tail for example http://davesgarden.com/pf/go/70712/index.html. As Shoe stated , the seed pods from regular radishes can be eaten, Never been that hungry myself.

Yes, the Rattail is the one I have. Looking forward to planting some as soon as the heat breaks! 100+ degrees in NY is quite rare, and I can assure you, the only lawn/garden work that will be done for the next few days will watering!

How long does it take for them to get the pods if left to seed? I have still out there from my March planting and they don't look like anything but a radish that never was!