Last thing to Harvest for 2004

19 years ago

I harvested my horseradish yesterday. the roots were planted last Spring late, perhaps early Summer.

While the roots were quite long...3 feet in length average, The new roots were ever so thin. The orginial root piece was a mere 5 inches and about a 1.5" caliber.

The beginning of the root mass had several nice thick white fleshy tubular roots much like in size of the original cutting.

Having never grown horse-radish prior to this past season, I have never wintered it or grown it before. Any suggestions for keeping it until next year to replant or should I have left in out in the soils for a zone 4-5 winter. Last year we had little snow, so the freeze thaw was extreme. This is not typical nor atypical for us.

I suppose I could just do a google search on that subject.

How ever!!!and none the less!!! I have in Maine out of the ground horseradish on Novemeber 9, 2004!!! And the ground was not frozen at that time of the day.

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Cindy_T
19 years ago
Sue, my experience with horseradish has been that you can't kill it with a stick. You may have actually left pieces in the ground that will resprout; if you want to be sure you have it next year, just go stick a piece back in the ground and get out of the way! :-) We have very sandy ground here and the horseradish I planted went absolutely nuts. (I don't even like the stuff - just planted it because DH likes it!) I was a couple of years getting rid of it, so I don't think you'll have too much trouble wintering it.
gardengardengardenga
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19 years ago
thankyou Cindy- I will try putting a larger piece back and see what happens...you are right , there were a lot of snapping andpulling of the roots and I know some thin roots are all over there.
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