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'Rat Tail' Radishes
 
Sub-Category: Rattail
 
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Description: Rattail, edible-pod type. 4- to 5-foot plants bear 3- to 6-inch, green (sometimes purple-tinged), mildly pungent pods. Small, inedible root. Also known as Rattail, Rat's Tail, Rattail and Rat Tailed.
Days To Maturity: 50-57
Seed Sources: Seed Savers Exchange - updated in 2014

 
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Taste: (3.5 Stars)Taste
Yield: (4.5 Stars)Yield
Ease/Reliability: (5.0 Stars)Ease/Reliability
 
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Reviewed on 08/26/2007 by Luffa Zar - An experienced gardener

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Dane, Wisconsin, United States
Frost Free Season: 143 - 163 days
Soil Texture: Clay
Garden Size: Medium - 400 square feet to 1,600 square feet
Sun Exposure: 6 to 8 hours per day

these are a fun variarity not that tasty though. A totally out of control plant. pretty flowera and a good insect attractor early spring.
 
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Reviewed on 05/30/2006 by pajohnso - An experienced gardener

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Marquette, Michigan, United States
Frost Free Season: 103 - 123 days
Soil Texture: Loam
Garden Size: Medium - 400 square feet to 1,600 square feet
Sun Exposure: More than 8 hours per day

This is an absolutely wonderful vegetable to grow. Instead of a root, you eat the seed pods which are very tasty. The taste is almost like the inside of the broccoli or cabbage stem. You get tons of the tiny seed pods that need to be picked before they get woody. This plant gets pretty huge, so make sure you give it enough space. The plants were about 3' x 4' tall/wide. I grow this every year, and just one plant is enough for our whole family if you keep it picked as it produces more this way.
 
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