Growing Horse-raddish

[lornaluft]

Hi all and thanks for your comments. Hubby is now rethinking his plan and Im trying to steer him into rubbish bin or drum ideas! I know he wants a lot of horseradish but he is a chef! Agreeing with his horseradish was the only way to get him to help me work on the rest of my allotment (digging and heavy work)
Would one of those big plastic/rubber trug things work?
As for sending me a thong, yes please!! All donations gratefully accepted!

[lornaluft]

[jennym]

Horseradish grows ok in a black plastic dustbin, I'd think that a trug would be a bit shallow. The 45 gallon oil drum is fine too. If you want to use it for horseradish sauce, you need about 25% horseradish in proprtion to other ingredients.
I find that best way to grow it is to lift it once a tap root has formed, and little hairy side roots are coming.
Cut off about a third from the bottom, and replant the top. The side roots grow, leave them until they are the thickness of a man's finger - they are good to harvest for sauce then as they are succulent, easy to grate and not at all woody.
The side shoots can grow very long indeed, I've had some 3 or 4 foot long.
You peel them with a potato peeler in a sink full of water, and if you want to keep them white whilst doing other things, put in a bowl of water with lemon juice or vinegar added, this stops them going brown.

[Vortex]

Horseradish will regrow from any broken section of root like docks.
When I took my plot over 4 years ago there were 8 major plants on it with roots going down over 3 feet. I still haven't managed to eradicate it from where I don't want it.
My task this year is to build a bed to grow it where I do.

[Ian Pearson]

I have been trying to get rid of horseradish since taking over the plot 8 years ago. I have dug down up to 4 feet deep and got all that I could out of the ground , but it was back at full strength the following Spring.

Changing the subject to 'killing horse radish', any ideas?

[tonybloke]

I have been trying to get rid of horseradish since taking over the plot 8 years ago. I have dug down up to 4 feet deep and got all that I could out of the ground , but it was back at full strength the following Spring.

Changing the subject to 'killing horse radish', any ideas?

cut it off at just above ground level, in the evening.(sap going down) liberally apply salt to wound!!