Every post we tagged with #wurzelgemuese. Newest first.
6 postsWhy potatoes and apples never belong in the same room, why the cellar should sit neither below 4 nor above 10 degrees, and how carrots and beetroot stay crisp in damp sand right into spring. With wound healing, the solanine rules, rot diagnosis and the weekly check.
Two hardy roots almost no one grows anymore: sow parsnip and black salsify in spring, harvest them all winter, and frost even makes them sweeter. Here is how to grow them well.
Horseradish is as generous as it is stubborn: one root cutting feeds you for years. How to plant it, tame it with a root barrier, and harvest it after the frost.
The sweet potato is botanically a bindweed, not a potato. How to raise your own cuttings, plant them warm, and why only curing makes them properly sweet.
Maggoty roots and crooked carrots need not happen. Why only the net reliably keeps out the carrot fly, what companion planting really does, and how carrots grow straight.
Why several plants come up from one seed, why you should eat the leaves, and how to store beetroot in damp sand until spring.
