Quote Originally Posted by Frank S View Post
H have sandy soil so not much drawbar HP is required My Ford 2600 and Case 431 do just fine. If you have a tractor that can pull a 2 bottom 16inch moldboard turning plow in your soil then it will have enough umph to pull this.
A roto tiller on horseradish will create a carpet of the stuff, cut a 1-foot root into a dozen pieces but leave them in the ground and 2 dozen plants will crop up starting from both ends of the root,
It is a great herb once you learn to control its growth. Just dig it up save the largest roots scrub them clean then grate them let set a few minutes add some white vinegar a little pickling salt and pound a Vitamin C tablet into powder to make your own horseradish sauce. The longer you wait to add the vinegar and other... the hotter it will become but if you wait too long like about 6 to 10 minutes it will have a hot + bitter taste. I like to sparingly spread a little and squeeze the juice from a half a lemon on a schnitzel to add flavor.
Why pat $7.00 for a 2 oz jar when you can make a pint of the stuff from 3 cups of roots for free + the cost of a cup of vinegar, a little salt and a vitamin.
I just bought this last night
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I have a few plants out in the back yard. I too have sandy soil. These are mostly in the shade of oak trees. I got the cuttings from my parents 30 years ago. I mow around them, never dug any up.
So is the vitamin C, ascorbic acid, a preservative to keep it from turning brown? I was told it should be harvested in months with "R" in them, late fall through spring. I assume that growing season must have some off taste. I'm guessing here. Ground is frozen here currently.

I'll have to try that. I do buy the jars, I make a BBQ sauce with it, and spread it on pork chops and bake in the oven. The store purchased stuff is very wimpy. But I've had very hot stuff and do not like the nasal cavity burn. I bet if baked on pork chops it will drive those volatiles off.


Nice loader, 4-5 yard bucket? Years ago I passed on a loader this size, that had a huge backhoe on the other end. Had some hydraulic valve issue, that was welded/buried into the machine structure. The guy didn't have any manuals for it. I could see where a previous repair was done with cutting a hole in the backhoe arm, and then welding it back in place. Some sort of remote actuator so high volume flow didn't go through the operator spool valves. I'm ignorant to hydraulic systems of this sort. And I didn't have a building to keep it in, and way beyond my needs. I ended up with a very small skid steer. Gehl 2500.