Throwin' lots of food around

[Atlas]

I hate waste. The coop I work at saves all produce scraps for a local farmer, so between that and recycling cardboard we really don't have much waste.

I freely admit to dumpster diving. There is too much perfectly usable stuff thrown out every day. I think people are just so used to the idea of throwing something out when there is one minor defect.

[badger]

Eat carrot green leaves

It really never would've occurred to me until you mentioned it. I always eat turnip and beet greens, and I asked the farmer once whether radish greens were edible (she didn't think so, and a little nibble didn't taste that great).

I'm trying something new this year ... I thinned the carrots the first time when they were super tiny, but left the plants still pretty closely spaced. They were too small at that point for me to have gotten very attached to them. Now I'm pulling baby carrots that are just a little too close together to grow to full size, and the rest will be my main crop. The baby carrots are delicious!

ha, I stumbled on the same site, too. I think I'll pass, it sounds like it's quite bitter. Site has some really interesting looking carrot recipes, though. My carrots are still super tiny (PNW has been way too cool this year) and they're still closely together so I'll probably do the same thing you did as time goes by!

I love turnip greens. Chop them up and put them in miso soup, yum!

[GLC1968]

My pulled carrots go to our goats. They LOVE the greens (almost as much as they love brassica leaves)!

You can eat radish greens if you eat them very young before they go bitter. So if you needed to thin the radishes, then eat those greens raw. For older greens, apparently they taste better when cooked though I haven't tried it since ours go to the goats anyway. Also, for anyone who doesn't like radishes raw (I don't, and I keep trying), cook them. They taste like a totally different veggie and they are delicious! So far, I've only done a saute and a stir-fry...I'm going to try roasting next.

[badger]

I really must move somewhere a bit more rural where I can get myself a plot of land and some goats!!

I'll have to try the cooked radishes - I guess it makes sense to cook it, we cook turnips (I actually love raw purple-top turnips, not as strong as the radishes and lovely texture).

[BleeckerSt_Girl]

Steamed fresh radish greens....SUPER YUMMY!!!!! a touch of butter and salt when done. Once steamed, they are no longer fuzzy/prickly and are somewhat similar to spinach. Throw them in soups too if you like. Highly nutritious.

The best tempura I ever had was about 30 years ago at someone's house- they dipped mature carrot top leaves in tempura batter and deep fried them in a big pan. OMG, so good!!! And they looked so pretty too, like lace.

[shootingstar]

Steamed fresh radish greens....SUPER YUMMY!!!!! a touch of butter and salt when done. Once steamed, they are no longer fuzzy/prickly and are somewhat similar to spinach. Throw them in soups too if you like. Highly nutritious.

Does it make any difference if the radish greens are "younger"? Wonder about koh rabi leaves...not that we have koh rabi often.