[Sca-cooks] Compost: Black Radishes, Carrots

[Maggie MacDonald]

At 01:23 PM 6/18/2004,lilinah at earthlink.net said something like:

>First, for a reason i no longer remember, i used black radishes in my 
>Compost (recipe in Form of Cury), not daikon or rosy salad radishes. 
>Anyone have any theories as to why i might have done this?

The black radish is a documentable period vegetable? 15th or 16th century 
Spain if i remmeber correctly.

I've grown them, and they're a lot of fun (and loads of surprises)

Regards,
Maggie MacD.