2020 Victory Gardens

[Eric Krewson]

My granddaughter makes a kale salad with pine nuts, cranberries, boiled egg and a vinaigrette dressing that is out of this world and I never thought I would like kale in a salad. 

[Pat B]

We found a kale slaw in the grocery store and loved it but it was expensive so I started making my own with almost any greens, with shredded carrots, chopped onions, broccoli, cauliflower, boch choy(sp), dried cranberries, chopped walnuts, shredded apple and poppy seed dressing. This is some good stuff and even better the next day after it has marinated over night.   

[Hawkdancer]

That almost makes me want to try it - but without the onions! 
Hawkdancer

[Pat B]

Onions are optional. 

[Eric Krewson]

I had heard about a radish people planted for deer to eat, it is a daikon radish but known around here as a deer radish. Deer will eat the greens first then pull up the radish and eat it as well.

I had to plant a few rows of these just to see what they looked like. To say they did well in my garden is an understatement. They taste like any other radish, perhaps a little milder. I was surprised at how big they grew.

I pulled this one today, I have so many I am going to pickle some sliced with onions and garlic to see how they taste on sandwiches or in a salad.

[WhistlingBadger]

Wow, Eric, you could torpedo a destroyer with that thing!