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I want to take some to grow in a corner, could I take a root cutting now or a bit of root with leaves on it?

I did a similar thing a couple of years ago, I made a pig's ear of it  but every bit and very odd piece   has done really well, do not think I could have killed if I tried.

so it is horseradish then?

Looks like it but dig a bit up ,if your eyes water and it smells strongly of horseradish  then it could be.

looks like rhubarb to me but I cant see any leaves and I dont know what horseradish looks like any way

Thanks for that jewel of information jockomorrocco  ;D

your welcome there is no end to my ignorance.  ;)

"joc" dont want any of your spare rubarb if you have any,looks a bit green!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :Dmade me larf any way..

well i am colour blind

Just had a look at a picture of horseradish and it looks like a long thin dock leaf.Nothing like your photo

Can't work out what is in your photo :)

I would say it is horseraddish ... at this time of years it's just pushing through ... but by mid year it will be 4 ft tall  :o!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 

Start digging !!!!  ::) ;D  the roots go down for MILES !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!   :-X

Definitely Horseradish Sawfish... the young leaves are very fernlike??? then you get the big broad dock like leaves later.
Good luck on trying to dig it out!!
;D

I would suggest you grow it in some sort of container.I have been trying to get rid of it for ages .It is one of those  things which the  smallest bit left in roots itself.

If it is, dig up every bit of it at the end of the season, and replant thongs somewhere else. Then eliminate anything which emerges at the original site.

I bought some roots last year and planted them. They took ages to show anything then I felt such a fool. I then realised that there was loads of this stuff growing by the side of teh roads all around my town. DOH!!
My plants still haven't shown any growth this year yet, I hope that this year I may be able to pick some and make my own hot horseradish sauce. All I need to do is run a cow over and grab too bread vans :-)
Woppa

I remember reading the thongs ( roots) can go down 10ft plus so if you plant it some where make sure your not going to move it again.
A crown with 2-3 inch of thong will grow on fine. Also if you cut a thong in 1 inch pieces they root as well. It looks lovely in flower and the difference betweed a dock are HR, dock roots are orange HR white. It will self seed its self very well once established. Only plant on lottiet when I took on my lottie,
Manure mulch in winter and likes it dry in summer.

If you MUST plant horseradish on your own plot (and I wouldn't ;D ) either do it in a container, or, make a very high ridge or mound of softish soil and plant in the top of that. This does go some way towards stopping it spreading like a weed.

If it IS horseradish, it's very early - ours is only like this:

I would have thought that, by that stage, you would have true leaves?

I planted a root I got from Waitrose (dead posh us!) last year and it has grown ok but the slugs love it and keep stripping the leaves.
I am intent on making my own sauce from it - even though my partner refuses to kiss me after I have eaten it - she can't stand the smell :(