There was a surprise waiting for me in my mailbox yesterday. A box from an online friend of mine containing a dozen horseradish crowns. I have never grown the stuff, but I do enjoy it as a condiment on everything from ham to sushi. Thankfully we had some rain the last few days and the ground was soft. I just dug up a 30″ x 30″ spot in a corner of the garden that gets a good amount of sun, stuck the crowns in until all that showed was the green at the top, and that was it. My friend assured me later that what I had done was all that I needed to do, though when I mulch the garlic later it would be a good thing to put some over the crowns as well. He also told me that the horseradish, short of employing a glycophosphate to the garden, is there to stay. Fine by me. I do like the perennial aspect of some crops, and up here, not a ton are that cold hearty.
