Eating the goodies

A tea to warm the cockles of your heart(even though most of it was salad)
Jacket potato( a Winston, just lifted) lettuce, radish. tomato and the super ingredient BULB FENNEL(can you tell I have never managed to grow this before, always ran to seed) and a chunk of spicy chicken, so apart from the salad cream and the chuck, all grown by my own fair hands.

 

Hi, which radish seeds have you used? My family have asked me to grow some radishes as you can never get them hot like you used to. I threw in some seeds a couple of weeks ago, but then noticed the packet described the taste as mellow haha!

my family are requesting old fashioned red hot radishes x

 

Probably not what you are looking for but winter radish is hot, so i'm told.

 

We grew some black french radishes and they were hot!

 

Yes, the long black French radish are very tasty. Can't remember the name of them now or whether they are available.

 

Black Spanish was what my neighbour used to grow many years ago, I think you can still get them.
https://www.suttons.co.uk/vegetable-seeds/radish-seeds

 

I think the long black french ones are Mooli but it's ages since I used those seeds up so could be wrong. May be worth checking tho.

 

Mooli are long white winter radishes, also known as Daikon, from the Far East.

 

Ah right thanks @NigelJ . Supposedly "remembering" something in the early hours doesn't always work Mine were definitely black

 

Radishes require sulphur as a trace element to promote spicyness. Its a defence mechanism to ward off slugs etc. To grow hot, spicy radishes you need soil which has received animal manure in most preceding years,as a source of nitrate and sulphur. Adequate but not excessive water supply from a humus rich soil. Warm but not excessively hot weather, to give steady growth and allowed to reach maturity before harvest. Delay in harvest allows flowering before seeding and radishes become woody. If this occurs, the seed pods are edible when green and also carry the spicy heat.