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When are radish ready?

TopVeg — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 07:55:29 +0000

When are radish ready to harvest? It really depends on:

how you like your radish
what variety you are growing

We prefer to eat the variety ‘french breakfast’ when it is small. If it grows as big as the one in the picture it becomes fibrous and bits often go hard. This variety tends to become mis-shapen as it gets too big.

large-french-breakfast-radish

Vienna , however, is a larger variety. The radish in the photo are really the size of golf balls! They are a perfect shape and colour and have no blenishes. They are delicious to eat, quite mild in flavour but crisp and crunchy.

large-vienna-radish

Radishes are at their best when grown quickly.

If you are unsure about when radishes are ready, pull one and try it – if it suits you, it is ready!

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Radish Harvest

TopVeg — Wed, 02 Jun 2010 12:12:34 +0000

Radish can be harvest right through the summer, if the radish seed is sown every 2 or 3 weeks.

bunch-vienna-radish

This year we have grown:

1. Vienna F1 hybrids

large, golf ball sized roots if left – we harvest a bit smaller
pure white flesh
firm, crisp texture
juicy
spicy flavour

vienna-F1-radish

2. French Breakfast

long,tapering radish
bright red skin with a white tip
crisp, crunchy flesh
delicate, mild taste
quick growing

french-breakfast-radish

Children love to grow and harvest radish as thye are such quick growers.

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Growing Winter Radish

TopVeg — Sun, 22 Mar 2009 07:01:25 +0000

Winter radish are more challenging in the kitchen than summer radish, although they are easy to grow. The roots are large , up to 30cm long, and can weigh a kilogram. Winter radish are used in salads, for pickles and as a hot vegetable.

Sow in July or early August.

Seed

    * **Germination time – 4-7 days*
    * **Yield from a 3 meter row – 5 kg*
    * **Time between sowing & harvesting* – 10 to 12 weeks*
    * **Sowing depth – 1.25cm*
    * **Spacing in row – 2.5cm*
    * **Distance between rows – 22cm*

Soil
Winter radish grow best in a fertile, well drained soil. The radish will grow almost anywhere, but it is worth preparing the soil well to give a good seed bed to insure a good crop.

Crop Care

    * **Thin *to leave the plants 5cm apart
    * **Protect* the radish from birds & flea beetle. If beetles start to perforate the leaves spray with Derris
    * **Hoe between rows to remove weeds
    * **Water when the soil becomes dry

Harvesting
*Pull when required, but cover the crowns with straw or peat. The roots may be left in the soil until Novenber, when the winter radish should be lifted and stored like carrots.*

Varieties**

    * *China Rose – oval roots*
    * *Black Spanish Round – large, black skinned globe*
    * *Black Spanish Long – Long, tapered, black skinned root*
    * *Mino Early – milder flavour, cylindrical roots*

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Growing Summer Radish

TopVeg — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 21:08:14 +0000

Sow radish seed under cloches in January or February or outdoors in
March until early June. Summer radish do not grow well after June, when
the roots become woody & peppery.

*Seed*

    * *Germination time – 4-7 days
    * *Yield from a 3 meter row – 2 kg
    * *Time between sowing & harvesting – 3 to 6 weeks
    * *Sowing depth – 1.25cm
    * *Spacing in row – 2.5cm
    * *Distance between rows – 15cm

Soil
*Summer radish grow best in a fertile, well drained soil. The radish
will grow almost anywhere, but it is worth preparing the soil well to
give a good seed bed as they need to grow quickly to become tender and tasty. Early sown crops need a sunny spot, but some shade is preferred in summer.

Crop Care – rapid, uninterrupted growth is needed for tender radish.

    * *Thinning is not necessary if the plants are spaced at 2.5cm intervals
    * *Protect the radish from birds & flea beetle. If beetles start to
      perforate the leaves spray with Derris
    * *Hoe between rows to       remove weeds
    * *Water when the soil becomes dry

radish

Harvesting
*Pull when the round ones are thumb-nail size, & the long ones are thumb
length. If they get too big they will go woody & hollow.

*Storage – in a polythene bag in the fridge for a week

Varieties

* *Round radish:
Cherry Belle – red
Scarlet Globe – red

**Long radish:

French Breakfast

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Instructions For Growing Summer Radish

TopVeg — Fri, 29 Jun 2007 12:23:02 +0000

Farming Friends & TopVeg have collaborated to create a How To Grow Summer Radish growing card.

How2Grow_Summer_Radish

The card may be downloaded, printed off and pinned to the potting shed wall as a useful reference on how to grow summer radish

We hope that children, as well as established vegetable gardeners, will find this useful, as they can grow summer radish in pots or in their own space in the vegetable garden.

radish

Please complete the contact form below if you would like us to send you a pdf of the grow card for summer radish

Thank you Sara at Farming Friends for designing this grow card.

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Vegetable Growing in Containers.

TopVeg — Tue, 08 May 2007 17:17:25 +0000

Vegetables can be grown in containers as well as in the vegetable
garden. All sorts of containers may be used, such as yoghurt pots,
cream cartons, plantpots or tubs. These may be kept on the windowsill,
doorstep, patio, balcony, roofgarden or in a windowbox.

salad-leaves,-radish&onions

Salad crops are easy to grow in containers. Radish, spring onions and
salad leaves grow quickly and are are happy in tubs. Successive sowings,
every two weeks ensure a constant supply.

The pots should have good drainage. Holes punched in the bottom of
yoghurt & cream cartons allow water out. Place the cartons in a saucer,
to catch the water draining through, so it does not make a mess. If
there are no drainage holes, the pots need to be large enough to hold
some stones, or broken crocs, which together act as a water catchment area.

Compost, or growing medium, is sold in supermarkets & garden centers.
It is possible to use garden soil, and the soil on mole hills is ideal.
But this is likely to be home to various bugs and worms which could eat
the growing vegetables, particularly as the pests cannot move away to
find any other food.

Vegetables grown in containers need to be in a light place. But avoid
placing them in a position where they will be baked by the sun. The
vegetables plants will need constant, probably daily, watering so that
they are always damp.

These French Breakfast radish were sown 2 weeks ago.

bowl-of-radish

Spring onions grow more slowly. These White Lisbon onions have taken 2
weeks to emege.

spring-onion-in-pot

Lettuce seeds are quite vigorous. A pot of mixed salad leaves can be treated as a ‘cut & come again’ crop.

mixed-salad-leaves-in-pot

The mixed salad leaves have different shapes, colours and textures,
giving a pleasing variety.

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Salads in Pots

TopVeg — Sat, 05 May 2007 14:34:45 +0000

Radish and mixed salad leaves grown in pots are a great success. The
radish take up very little room, so a lot of radish are produced in a
small container. The photo shows French Breakfast radish grown in a
pot. They are crisp and slightly peppery.

radish-growing-in-pot

radish

The mixed salad leaves are so useful. They can be cut, and then they
come again.

salad-in-pots

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