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Just wondering if the entire plant can be eaten. An earlier post by Mrs Ava shows that their flowers are edible, so are the leaves?

Yes - I sometimes use them in str frys  :)

So are their seed pods, supposedly, but I don't think much of them.

The leaves can be a bit bristly... and you should grow specific varieties which have been improved if you want edible pods, but all parts of the plant are edible. Like beetroot... spinachbeet/chard... same plant improved for which part you want to eat..  :)

They are! But you don't get much leaf from salad radish. The winter ones have lots of leaf, which is welcome at that time of year. They're not a very tender leaf, and so I think they suit something very robust like a thick curry or spicy stew. But once cooked, you'd never know they were so prickly when raw!

Nicky's seeds for one have an oriental leaf radish

The French make a wonderful soup from radish leaves:
Sweat some onions or echalotes in butter until golden,
wash the radish leaves from an average bunch, and chop them finely, then add them to the onion mixture and fold them through ,
add 750ml of stock, ground black pepper, and a medium potato chopped into small pieces.

Bring to the boil then simmer for about 20-25 minutes.
I then mix it with a hand blender and add some single cream. It's one of my 10 year old's fave soups! It is reminsicent of spinach but without the bitterness.

Thanks for the replies and recipe suggestions. Great stuff, as always.