# horseradish dissappointment, why?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/horseradish-dissappointment-why/536817>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [April 21, 2010, 2:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/horseradish-dissappointment-why/536817 "2010-04-21T02:19:58Z")\
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**Author:** ![brujaja](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4af34b/32.png) [@brujaja](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brujaja)\
**Post date:** [April 22, 2010, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/horseradish-dissappointment-why/536817/21 "2010-04-22T17:15:47Z")

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My dad, a consummate gardener, has a long-established bed of horseradish. He yanks it out when it spreads too far. Anyway, I believe the OP said that this is first-year growth. That’s your problem right there.

When it was my job to go out & pick a root to grate into the nightly salad, I noticed right away that the older, thicker roots were **much** stronger than the new, pencil-thin ones. If you can put up with the native unruliness of horseradish in your garden, it will get stronger over time.

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**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\
**Post date:** [April 23, 2010, 12:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/horseradish-dissappointment-why/536817/22 "2010-04-23T12:52:28Z")

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