Post pictures of your radishes here...

The assorted seed mix radishes were sown in mid March of this year, so about fifty days before the first harvest. This seems like quite a consistent number for early sowings in my neck of the woods.

 

Mr Fothergill's Scarlet Globe.


Here they were a few moments ago.


Planted in alternate rows of radish and coriander.



The seeds were sown in a successional timing pattern, so early April - about a fortnight after the first sowing of the season.

Of course, not all of them came out perfect. I did get a small bunch with slug/woodlice nibbling damage.

 

Awesome idea!
I need to show my wife, she was fascinated when I planted a some salad root stub in bottles and it worked.

 

Good effort but I have a sneaky feeling that too much neglect fertiliser was used on them. A little at the beginning or at the mid bulging stage would give better results.

 

Too embarrassed to show you mine, as they have not bulbed out as yet.

 

They must be the size of cricket balls by now, landimad.


Anyway, just to show that, with a little diligence, a second crop of radishes can also be easily grown in the summer heat.




Here they were a few moments ago.




Incidentally, the other crop next to the radishes is coriander.

 

No body needs reminding that this spring has been one of the coldest in recent years. As a consequence, the leaf harvest over this time from radish sown last October seem to be more tender than usual, somewhere between cabbage and spinach when cooked.


But starting anew, here is the harvest from the first sowing of the year:

25th May 2021, Malaga Violet.


Two of the biggest so far.


They were mild tasting with a tender carrot-like crunch when eaten raw.


Here they were moments ago.


Grown in spent compost and leafmould with a scoop of blood, fish and bone fertiliser.



The surface blemishes were probably caused by snails and/or woodlice. You can actually see one of these tiny culprits on top of the first radish on the left.

This particular variety took about 65 days to reach a decent average (35mm diameter) harvestable bulb size.

 

My first crop sown in March. Harvested today

 

Fantastic. I am happy to see that you're able to produce a really good crop of radishes (and lettuce also), Jasmine star.

Are they Cherrybelle?

 

Hi @misterQ thank you. It was very exciting to harvest them today. (My first since having a allotment) I'm not 100% sure which they are as I have planted Cherrybelle and Sparkler. Both are ready for harvesting but I forgot to check my labels before taking these out. Too excited