Are radish greens good to eat because I have over winter daikon radishes and I see they’re going to see but they have yellow flowers just like kale or something like that
I think some people like the flower stalks and pods. Hopefully others who eat them can pipe in.
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If you like radishes you’ll like the greens and pods. My daikons have pink flowers. I haven’t seen a yellow flowered version. Are the leaves smooth or rough/hairy?
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I personally think the pods are the yummiest part, and the leaves are the second yummiest. The roots are good, but the leaves and pods are even better! This is especially true with daikon (or white icicle) radishes, which have a mild flavor and aren’t spicy. The spicy radishes have spicy leaves and pods, which make them very unpleasant to eat raw (unless you like spiciness, which I don’t). Daikon radishes have mild leaves and pods that are very tasty raw, though. Yummy! 
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Thank you
You’re very welcome!
Also, on the subject of companion crops, peas and daikon radishes seem to be happy together. I’ve had them growing together all winter in one of my garden beds, and they seem to have done well together.
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They’re smooth
Manageable in a mixed salad then. The rough ones are ok cooked but not so pleasant to eat raw.
I’m thinking of interplanting strawberries and garlic.
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I’m planning to plant them in the section with my blueberry bushes, so the soil there will (hopefully) be more acidic than most of my soil, anyway.
Out of curiosity, Emily, do you already have strawberry and/or garlic and are considering moving them together or are you adding them this year?
I was looking at an article last night about companion plants for blueberries, and it recommended growing strawberries below/between them (also crimson clover, white clover, redbud, and flowering dogwood were on the list… creeping thyme I think it may have had on there too?)
I snagged some blueberry bushes recently and need to decide where I am going to plant them. Having quite a few redbuds, stumbling upon several dogwood saplings in the woods yesterday, and having some blue and purple creeping thyme seeds as well as both types of clover definitely got me thinking about setting up some guilds… needs to get some strawberries and you have me wondering about garlic lol.
We have some daikon radishes flowering in our backyard with yellow flowers… I’d need to go look at the leaves to see if they are smooth or not. Does one or the other mean anything in particular or just gathering information?
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I’ve got a big section of my yard filled with blueberry bushes right now. There are, I think, nine different varieties. (I’m trying to figure out which ones like my climate best, so I’m going for everything that is conveniently available!) In late fall and throughout the winter, I have planted garlic around the blueberry plants. I heard that alliums tend to exude sulfur, and elemental sulfur is supposed to acidify soil, so I went, “I’m gonna plant garlic around all my blueberries, and see how that works!”
So far, the garlic seems to be very happy. The blueberries haven’t shown any signs of distress. I hope they’ll do well when they start leafing out. (Some of them have leaf buds on them right now.) With the reassurance that strawberries and garlic probably aren’t wildly unsuitable, I have filled in all the rest of the gaps between blueberry bushes with everbearing strawberries. So the strawberries, garlic, and blueberries are all mixed together in a polyculure.
There are also some grape vines near the center. The middle is the highest point and will therefore dry out quickest, so I figured something drought tolerant there would make sense. Also the blueberry section is planted around an enormous dead maple tree, so I figure the grape vines can use that dead tree as a trellis, and make use of some vertical space. If they shade out the blueberries slightly, that will probably be a benefit, as our summer sun is so intense.
Oh, yeah, I also stuck a tree collard on the north side of the tree, and I’m planning to stick a banana on the south side of the tree. I may experiment with sticking other random stuff into random spots, too. Gotta fill every gap with something growing! 
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Not weeding much me. I just take out what’s very dominating or blocking growth of crops. Chop and drop weeds.
MinersLettuce and rye.
Miners Lettuce and walking onions
Spring onions and white dutch Glover
Mish mash of deeprooting selfseeders parsnip and salsify with
Mish mashing some more. Clover, horse radish, parsly, Bruxelles sprouts
Green asparagus , favas, rocket lettuce.
Phacelia, camomille, parsly, lettuce
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We love orach, its delightful and delicious 
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The Miner’s Lettuce looks healthy. Is it in direct sun all day?
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Yes it is in full sun all day. Does well in partial shade. But it needs some source of nitrogen and space to grow. Left as a mulch it will be too dense next year and it’s growth stunted. I usually wheelbarrow it off and let it dry down in a corner shake the seeds out on a tarp at some point in May.
My daikon radishes three yellow flowers they’re beautiful yellow flowers but it’s not forming any pods it must be something about it not normal
I have interplanted garlic with my strawberries because the deer were browsing my strawberries. They didn’t kill the plants but they really set them back - last year i didn’t get any berries. My neighbor has a big patch of feral garlic (this variant spreads like wild chives) in his yard. He considers it a weed and invited me to take it. It seems to be working. The deer have not bothered my strawberries since i interplanted the garlic. I’m planning to plant more garlic by my blackberries because the deer have been browsing the shoots and the blackberries are new starts not yet established. I should have done that in the first place, wasn’t thinking when i planted the blackberries. Now I’m thinking about putting garlic next to my corn when I plant corn.
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That’s AWESOME!
I’ll share that with my mom. Her new house has a yard full of deer that eat everything.
Just not next to your beans. Garlic puts out sulfur through its roots and beans are very sensitive to an excess of sulfur.
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Yeah, I’ve found one of the spots where I put garlic had peas, and now it no longer has peas, which makes me think that, yep, legumes and garlic don’t mix very well.