A Daikon Radish A Day

A Daikon Radish a day...will keep your friends from answering the phone, once you start to have an avalanche of them. Luckily, I have a secret weapon:

Roasted Daikon Radish Fries

Cut into 1/4-1/3 strips
marinate in olive oil with a shake or two of cinnamon, curry powder, cayenne pepper and a teaspoon or so of honey.
Roast at 425 for about 10 mins each side.

Yum on!


It's an amazing vegetable. Like the boniato, they like sandy soil. The beets didn't do well at all in the boulevard, but the onions did okay. Along the left edge of the boulevard is a weed called Virginia Pepperweed, sometimes, Poor Man's Pepper. Early settlers used it as a pepper alternative. I always let some come up. It's also a host plant for the Great Southern White butterfly.


Sandy, barely improved soil, they thrived in it. I planted one variety that grew to the size and shape of a football.