Horseradish, Sibling Mix, 100 seeds

Horseradish is a common condiment, produced by crushing the roots of the horseradish plant (Amoracea rusticana), but this is not the only possible use for this crop.  I have been selecting for plants with more tender and somewhat less spicy leaves to be used as greens.  Plants with perennial roots make good greens, because you don’t have to plant them every year and they tend to come up early.  I envision selecting a sort of perennial mustard green from horseradish.  I might get there someday, but these seeds represent just the beginning of that process.  Most plants from these seeds will still be pretty tough, but you ought to find a few that are more tender and less harsh.  I am finding those traits in about 1 in 20 plants now.  Given how easily horseradish propagates from root cuttings, if you find one you like, you can easily keep it going.  I don’t think that the roots have lost anything so far in this selection process, so if you just want to do some conventional horseradish breeding or if you just want to start some horseradish from a source that is likely to be free of viruses, these seeds should do the job.  These seeds result from crosses between some commercial horseradish strains and seeds originally provided by a customer that really helped to get the ball rolling.  2025 is the first year that I have had good seed production across many of the plants, so it is the first time that I have been able to offer these seeds.  Hopefully, this will be the first of many good years for horseradish seed production, but it is also possible that it was just a lucky year.