Rat Tail Radish (Podding Radish)
Rat Tail RADISH Raphanus sativus Seeds per pack ~ 100 Germination: 99% (Packed for 2025) Here's what our source for these amazing seeds says about them: "This radish from Southeast Asia is grown for its edible immature seed pods, similar in texture to pea pods, but with the full flavor of radish. The true rattail variety has slim purple siliques (the botanical term for brassica family seed pods), the earliest being over a foot long with a glossy waxed sheen. Surprising as a crudite, mysterious in stirfry (like, "What is this?"), and divine whole alongside a salad for nibbling. This comes to us from Jim Ternier and family at Prairie Garden Seeds in central Canada, and I think it's the truest to the form described in the 1885 Vilmorin Catalog ("The Vegetable Garden"). If you scan the other rattail offerings online, you'll see they look like typical radish pods, short, greenish, broad, and bumpy — nothing like a rat's tail. These may be descended from the Madras Radish, also described