Horseradish-EVERYONE Should Grow It and Here's Why
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- Опубликовано: 5 фев 2025
- I was pleasantly surprised to find out how easy it was/is to grow and harvest horseradish. We grew our horseradish in large buckets. It was the BEST solution for us having clay soil. Gardening in clay soil is not easy…it's possible. Horseradish has a long tap root which requires deep digging for harvesting, not fun in clay soil. But growing horseradish in containers was a perfect way to go. AND it will contain it.
Find out why I believe every gardener should be growing horseradish.
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Black containers attract way too much sun so the roots suffer by overheating. Replace them for white buckets or just paint them white
This is third year in these black ones, never been an issue until this year…weather has been a bear! They are pretty well done for so I’ll take your advice and switch up the color. Thank you 👍
Most pots are black anyway and I am in Australia
I have arrowroot, its like corn starch and excellent for canning foods, the leaces are good tasting too, both have tannins in the leaves and keep food chrispy, like pickles!! Grapes leaves are good too! I love greek dolmalus
Oh that all sounds good. What else do you use arrowroot for?
I'm with you on the "invasive" label. If you can eat it, and it spreads, I like to think of it as an "abundant provider".
Abundant I like that even better!
Hello Angie and Kenny,
I’m not a big fan horseradish but I will eat.Thank you for the tips.Have a bless weekend.
I am not either but dehydrated and sprinkled on grill meats…game changer for me
Can mix with ketchup for home made cocktail sauce. The longer they are in ground, the bigger the root gets. Some make one year sections, two year sections, up to five year sections. The dehydrated powder sounds really good!
You guys have such great tips I share then with my dad and I look really smart😉❤
Haha oh that’s genius 👏👏👏
I’m going to try that for my flea beetles problem next year. The flea beetles destroyed my eggplants. Thanks for the great info
It was nice having ours in a tub so that once the bugs took over we could just banish the horseradish outside the garden.
Wow that's awesome 😀
Thanks
I don't think I ever heard about horseradish, thanks for sharing this.
We were pretty happy to get some roots to grow…Kenny loves it
@@AbundantAcresHomestead I google it and see what they do with it, some kind of white paste, no clue how it taste, I am very curios but if it taste like mustard or mayonnaise it is not for me, if it is like peppers or chili or ginger it is awesome
Some people do make it into a mayonnaise type condiment. I honestly can’t even think of a similar flavor…it’s pretty hot
Thanks for the info as always. I want to try horseradish in the muck buckets next year!
I wasn’t even going to attempt horseradish in our clay muck…the thought of having to dig it uhhhNOOO! I’m pretty happy having it in buckets not just for easy digging but easy to move it out of the garden when it attracts the unwanted.
Very interesting! I did not know that. My sister has enough land for a great garden. I am an artist and I like to share my painting demos and studio tours here. So much to see and hear on RUclips. Have a great day!
A big garden is fun but small container gardening can grow quite a bit of food too. Give it a shot, and with your artistic skill I bet you could grow some beautiful vegetables
Thank you! I will.
You certainly have lots going on in your garden 🥰 Blessings Gerowyn
It’s fading off now…cold is creeping in on me. I’m NOT ready to give up the warm weather or being outside in the garden ☹️
@@AbundantAcresHomestead it must be a big challenge I hope my videos can help keep you warm we are just heading in to summer here, it's really getting hot 🥵
Funny you say that because I do watch friends in the south to garden vicariously through them 😂
@@AbundantAcresHomestead I am glad we can help 🥰
Wow! I guess I'll need to move mine. It's been 2 years & looks nothing like that. We all love it in our house and wanted our own supply. Adding the leaves to canned pickles is delicious.
This came from a three year plant that I transplanted from friends yard to the tub. We have THICK clay so it’s roots would’ve been a bear to dig. I have another video on a one year plant, the root is much smaller. I am going to try the leaves in pickles this year for the first time…I hear the tannins keep the pickles crisp?
very nice explanation angie i learned something i have never grown horse radish..might have to try it.
It’s way too easy for you to grow John…it would probably bore you 😂 No joke it’s a plant it, forget about it and harvest what you want type of plant.
You are brave. I have learned a great deal from you. Thank you,
We’ll thank you so much Alexa ❤️ It’s a pretty amazing trap plant 😉
OTSS!😁
That is my motto also. I will baby and water when the plant is young and then it’s free to live on its on 😆😂
I’m thinking about harvesting my horseradish towards November
Yeah I just can’t deal with fussy plants. I’m curious to see how much horseradish we use
Nice to have your own
it really is...so easy to grow
Horseradish with its deep roots is a dynamic accumulator. The leaves make a great fertilizer tea or you can chop and use as mulch.
Yes ma’am I made another video explaining that exact thing 👍
I've heard the leaves are edible and taste like mild horseradish. 😵 I'm growing it for the first time this year, so I don't know if that's accurate.
Ha! I'm still watching the video. You just tasted it.
@@MN_Candy One has to eat the young small leaves. The big, older ones get bitter.
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I would like to try growing horseradish...MeMaw sure likes it!
Oh it’s sooo easy, legit put it in dirt (doesn’t even have to be good soil) and it grows.
Vigorous
I like that...it is definitely vigorous!
Thanks for sharing I use my horseradish for numerous things
It’s wonderful! Our favorite way to use it is as a powder…shake it on a burger on the grill ohhhh soooo good 😋
I love horseradish. I didn’t know where it came from or you could grow it.
It’s soooo easy to grow and if you live it, it would definitely be worth growing. No kidding it’s crazy easy to grow! It’s no maintenance…unless in pots like ours we DID have to water a couple times. Even the watering probably didn’t “need” to be done but I was watering everything those couple days.
Invasive is a dirty word only use when needed I agree. This seems like it's similar to Ginger and turmeric to which we failed horribly this year on the dried horseradish powder sounds really good honestly. Would love to see you create this horseradish powder✌💗 happiness
That’s how I feel about the word. I’ve never grown ginger or turmeric so I couldn’t compare. I know horseradish is ridiculously easy to grow. If I can catch up on videos I’ll try to do one on the powder…hopefully it works out because his was good on the grill!
My bro and eye harvest the horseradish in April every year here in wisconsin
Nice! We harvest in the fall. What’s your favorite way to use it?
@@AbundantAcresHomestead slow cooker with venison or elk meat we do about 40 jars a year smaller jars of course
Use the ground root and use it to make homemade seafood cocktail sauce it's fabulous
Great idea! I had a plant my friend gave me but I think it died. I’m totally gonna try this again though! ~M
That's awesome...never hurts to try
Great advice. Wonder if I could use store bought?
I personally have never used store bought but I would think so long as it’s organic it would grow? Definitely be worth a shot!
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Yep I did it
I only eat horseradish when I’m eating some sort of beef.😍👍🏻
Having it dehydrated and sprinkled on grill meats made me change my tune on horseradish 😉
I like it with brats off the grill.
i'd use a lot of horseradish if I only use it when I'm eating meat because that's daily !
A friend of mine turned me onto having it on prime rib 25 years ago and I've been loving it ever since !
and it certainly does fixed clogged sinuses faster than anything I've ever tried
It would be great in the clay it will keep building top soil
Our clay is too thick to dig it out. Yes it would break it up BUT if we can’t dig it out it will take over.
Are u planting the root vertical or horizonal ??
The root i get is usually 12-18" long and about 2-3in diameter.
I plant on an angle I tend to get more vertical roots if I plant at an angle.
Neato
Horseradish for the win 🙌
Companion plants fruit trees, asparagus, grapes, sweet potatoes, rhubarb, spinach, potatoes. Check on plants to get rid of pests. Some plants ward off rabbits deer, ants
Companion planting is great!
Dynamic sounds even better than aggressive 🤔🤣
Ohhhh I like that! 👍 😆
use a grater on horse radish , and mix it with grated beetroot with a drop of olive oil mix well put in jars keep months in fridge
I’ve never tried it with beetroot. Thank you for sharing
@@AbundantAcresHomestead its the only way to have it i think on pork chicken etc
Interesting, I've never grown horseradish.
What area are u in??
Southern Indiana
Where I live the deer would prevent this from over growing. In fact they would eat it all up, the leaves that is.
It’s nice to have an abundance of deer…until they eat your garden.
I haven't thought about growing horseradish. Maybe I should.
I get what you mean about the term "invasive". Then again, I've heard that a "weed" is a plant growing where it doesn't belong, not a "trash plant" that has no practical use.
ETA: How does the horseradish know how to spell the name of the month?
I think it’s one of those plants that almost too easy NOT to have, especially if you like horseradish. Idk how does horseradish know how to spell?
We tried growing horseradish last year but it died, it was on a bucket. We cant them anymore to plant them again.
Really? I just threw these in and off they took. I’ll send you some if you’d like?
Horseradish is only invasive in looser soils in places where it rains a lot. Here in dry California and with heavy clay soils, it has naturalized but is fairly feeble and not anywhere near invasive. I had a big pot next to the clump in our garden and it actually seeded into the pot and flourished in the pot. Needs fairly heavy fertilizing in the pot to achive any kind of size, and even in the pot it is hard to harvest. I get skinny roots.
We have heavy clay soil and I learned from our friends that yes…even in clay soil it is pretty aggressive. Being in heavy clay makes it sooooo much more difficult to dig. I did notice that the heavier I fed it the thicker the roots. This year I top dressed it with chicken manure (November) so waiting to see how well it does…or doesn’t do?
@@AbundantAcresHomestead So it's just lots of water that make it go a bit invasive, or rather just persistant and hard to get rid of because the roots are so deep. Yeah, I was putting pee on mine in the pot which made it happy and green. Ended up just giving the whole pot to my sister who has a few acres in the woods and will divide and plant it. I still have some in the soil, here.
The clay we have holds so much water…which is great for drought years like last year. That’s great that you’re sharing. I’ve been able to share some as well it’s an amazing plant!
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I planted 4 or 5 roots a bit over 15 years or so ago. I planted them in a 4-6 square feet of space. They are still there and I had dug them up a couple of times. Very strong. I don't use herbicides etc. I planted them in my back yard and have never been forced to mow them because "they were getting out of control." They might if you were to lade them down with fertilizer and water. If you dig up the small "side roots" when you harvest you are effectively curtailing the "invasion." They don't grow where there is no root and I have never found seeds in any of the flowers they produce. As an aside the leaves are edible and a very useful source of tannin's for making fermented vegetables like pickles and, sour kraut, Brussels sprouts and onions and garlic. Mine get bothered by bugs eating their leaves so maybe that saps the roots and retards it's invasive tendencies. If you grind your horseradish while you are suffering from a sinus infection the infection might be gone the next day. That happened to me. Never repeated the exercise so I don't know if that is science.
Our friends that gifted these to us was overrun with them, though they had been there for two generations. They are so simple to grow I think everyone should have some horseradish 👍
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It takes years to spread like mad so it's not a problem really
That’s why I prefer to call them aggressive and not invasive…it’s awesome
it is invasive,I have it,I harvest it every 3 years,the patch is much bigger than when I started,it spreds and you can't stop it.
I understand but I still stick to aggressive over invasive only because I actually WANTED horseradish. I can’t call it invasive because I planted it…it didn’t invade. Just how I think of it.
Can cattle eat it
Nooo I definitely wouldn’t feed to animals. I would imagine it’d cause some major digestive issues.
@@AbundantAcresHomestead can they eat the leaves. So if cow or horse eat the leaves? I doubt they would dig it up.
Can humans eat leaves?
It's not invasive here. By definition it cannot be invasive if it is native. It is aggressive.
I completely agree. Invasive to me implies I didn’t want it, didn’t plant it…like Canadian thistle THAT’S invasive!
Invasive, like dandelions.
I’m the weirdo that likes dandelions…some see 1,000 weeds, others see 1,000 wishes 😉