What is your favorite radish and why?

[hiven]

I should have bring them in, Frank, but our root cellar is constantly at 8.5 to 15 C during winter. It is not heated but there is 1 thin warm pipe running through a part of it which might have kept the temperature up. I though mulching and covering will some plastic will help...learned the truth . Will grow them again this early autumn for next year seed saving.
Richard told me, his black spanish radish got frozen at -8C and we have had colder temperature then that. Your Weiner runder kohlscharzer sounds hardier then the china rose and black spanish, Frank.
Have you taste test any yet ?

[extremegardener]

Winter radishes - especially the "watermelon" types (red inside, white/green outside)
They're sweet, and I use them as the main ingredient for kimchee (lacto-fermented veg with ginger, garlic, and horseradish for seasoning, and any other veg you want to add), and we eat a lot of kimchee. The color bleeds out of the roots during fermentation, and gives the whole batch a pink color.
The two varieties I grew this past season were Radiant Giant and Red Meat. Radiant Giant gets softball size without getting tough. Some that weren't pickled are keeping well in the fridge.
I grew some Radiant Giant seed this year by sowing in the spring, so they bolted without forming much of a root. Seed yields were not all that great.
I am holding some roots for seed production this coming season, and I expect better results.
The seed certainly is fussy to process...

[bunkie]

eg, i would be interested in trading for some of the Radiant Giant next fall. sounds like a good keeper.

[canadamike]

I think that by ''WINTER'' they mostly meant ''winter keepers'' as they are mostly grown in places where the winters are pretty cold.....

They pretty much taste nothing once cook...but I like to put sauce on them ...

[hiven]

Have you tried cooking radish by simmering it in chicken broth ? It became tender, sweet and yummy.

[Jim]

some get planted tomorrow..and some chard.

[maricybele]

Diakon Pickled and French Breakfast. Hopefully I will begin to aquire a taste for Black Radish because they are supposed to be so good for you.

[keen101 (Biolumo / Andrew B.)]

We planted "regular" radishes this year, as well as some long white ones. I'm not a fan of radishes, but i will eat them occasionally.

..Anyway.. We've noticed a few dark purple radishes growing with the regular ones, but the flavour is fantastic. It's almost a sweet radish without the usual spicy-radish-flavour. I dont know what variety they are supposed to be. My family thinks they might be a cross between turnip and radish, but i dont think they taste like turnip or red beet. In fact i dont think they taste very much like radishes at all, which might be why i like them better.

I've managed to save three, but we ate the others. I'm going to let let go to seed, and see if the next generation is worth saving seed from too.