[Growing4mykids]

Hi, i love horseradish and want to grow my own, couple of questions; how easy is it to grow? are there better varieties than others and finally, best positioning, thanks 

[arugula]

It loves full sun but will tolerate some shade. Beware! It goes rampant if you don't keep and close watch on it.

[Growing4mykids]

yeah, someone had told me that, would it be happy in a large pot do you think? 

[Tea Break]

Its like mint  but if you put it in a pot make sure it's a deep one for the roots to grow.

Mike.

[savbo]

it would need to be in the deepest biggest container you can find - a dustbin?

There used to be a post on here with SCARY pictures of a plot that had been rotovated with horseradih on it...the infestation was so bad afterwards that the guy struggled for a few years then gave up.

Personally I would just find some growing in the countryside and help myself to a bit now and then - with landowner's permission of course. We have lots of bits of urban countryside round Manchester with horseradish growing wild...

sav

[Growing4mykids]

Cheers sav, there's plenty of widerness where i am but would'nt know what i was looking for!! Think i'll give it a go in a bin 

[scattygirl]

I'm going to give it a go this year but I will be trying it out in an old butler sink that I have on the plot.  I did hear on one of the cookery programmes that if you plant some Horseradish in Leeds it will be coming up in London   

[surbie100]

We've got it growing all over our site - I think a bit managed to get away from its owner once! 
That and volunteer potatoes were the first things I learned to recognise last year...

I'm echoing the dustbin advice - and move the bin regularly or wrap the bottom in weed membrane so it can't root out of the drainage holes!

[sunshineband]

Ours is planted well away from any ground likely to be dug on the plot, right in the corner between the gate and the compost bins

I defy it to escape


better flippin' not 

[gremlin]

Harrumph.

My third attempt at horseradish, and failing.  In moist soil, in full sun in a full size buried dustbin.  (bit pointless)

Planted 5 good thick thongs 3 years ago.  2 years ago down to three pencil thickness thongs.  This year, only one is growing.    Harvest? What harvest?

Anyone want their horseradish killed off?  I will just come and look at it for you.