Sorry, can't help you re: seed pods, but then again it turns out some of those greens I've been eating are weeds, and I'm not dead yet, so I'd go for it.

I moved my healthiest tomatoes to the greenhouse about a month ago along with 1 of 2 basils and they're doing much better now. I'm going to move the 2nd basil this weekend. Even the cukes that hardly got bigger than sprouts are starting to grow :-) Wonder if I can bring them inside for winter....

I covered the veggie bed the last few nights so things appear ok so far, altho I don't see any new squash -- maybe it's too cold for the bees?

Radish seed pods are edible. I taste-tested a few of my Daikon pods last year. I never did too much with them though.

Wikipedia has a little blurb about using the seeds on salads too. Never tried that. I did save seeds to grow for salad sprouts. Trouble is, DH who is the one who loves radish sprouts, is still overseas... Hopefully they'll still be sproutable this winter.

Yesterday, I was doing a little garden clean-up and pulled a weed from the pathway mulch and up came a nice red radish! I ate it, well, part of it... that bugger was too hot for me.

I don't know about the beets.

I am curious as to how it happens that your beets went to seed, J. That has never happened in my garden. Radish pods -- get the tender ones most recently flowers. They are tastier than the roots, IMO. Steve

I've cut a bunch of seed pods from radishes and bok choy and will steam some and cut a few into a salad too. They are de-lish!
Whoops, not beet seed pods, just radishes and bok choy. The mustard went to pods too but they are too hot and tough for my tastes. Even the mustard flowers were super hot. No surprise there.
I hope they'll be sproutable too, GreenBean!!
I'll report back with the result of eating tons of spicy beans...