An article in this week’s New York Times got me thinking about horseradish. That and the arrival of passover, with its bitter herbs and all. Our neighbor Patricia has a pile of plants growing in her garden. So after plying her with a dinner of slow cooked rosemary chicken, wheatberries and spring greens (fresh from the garden) we went horseradish hunting. She wasn’t quite sure where it was (nice to see I’m not the only one who forgets exactly what is planted where!) but after poking through the leaves we came across one good bunch. Horseradish is the kind of thing that once it gets growing it spreads quickly — she was happy to share (the dinner helped.) We got one root for the passover dinner tomorrow and another piece to plant in the herb garden.
In The Garden – Growing Your Own Horseradish – NYTimes.com
OUR horseradish roots looked so innocent when they arrived in the mail last spring. Just little brown sticks, about eight inches long and as narrow as pencils.
