Radishes

czechsonofagun · May 8, 2011

My family grew a bed of radishes for me. Love red radishes, it is a very popular vegetable in my original country, everybody grows some in the garden. Fresh radish has a nice afterburn in mouth, my son - 12 - liked them at first but refused the second one

Fresh radishes sliced and on buttered bread - excellent.

You can buy them in USA, but they don't seem too popular, same for kohlrabi. Also celery root is very important in the cuisine of central Europe - hard to find in the store in USA.

I am not profiling here

, just pointing out differences.

Chuck52 · May 8, 2011

I really like fresh radishes but I didn't plant any this year. I don't seem to have a lot of luck growing them, though they should be easy. I did plant kohlrabi. Gonna put in some fennel, too, the bulb kind. Must be the Food Channel influence.

Chuck

Transit · May 8, 2011

Look through the seed catalogs on line, not what you find in the store racks, tons to choose from, red, white, black, giant, hot, cool.

Egon · May 8, 2011

Nothing like a dish of nice fresh young radishes with a dash of salt.:thumbsup:

And in a salad they are pretty darned good to.

Mace Canute · May 9, 2011

Our garden always had radish when I was on the farm, the little round bright red ones, and I love them but unfortunately they don't love me! If I have more than one, they come back to haunt me later!

keegs · May 9, 2011

If you just get the tops and no radish I think you may need to work a little bone meal into the soil before planting and then thin the rows once they're up. Carrots same.

czechsonofagun · May 9, 2011

Transit said:
Look through the seed catalogs on line, not what you find in the store racks, tons to choose from, red, white, black, giant, hot, cool.

My dad used to eat white ones - back than I couldn't, they were too strong, maybe now, when my taste buds are all worn out, I would handle them better

NativeSon · May 9, 2011

I like the white ones (icicle) too. I don't find them too hot.

Bird · May 9, 2011

We seldom think to buy radishes, but when we had our own garden, we always had fresh radishes in the Spring, preferably the little round red ones. But they didn't last long into the Summer. In the Fall, I always planted turnips, so I decided to try planting radishes also. The Fall radishes actually did better than the Spring ones; lasted longer and even the biggest ones were never pithy. The attached photo was taken November 4, 2001, of radishes (and you can see a turnip in the upper left corner) planted on September 3, 2001.

czechsonofagun · May 9, 2011

Nice ones, Bird

They go well with beer, too.

DAY · May 9, 2011

Daikon are good in a stir fry; nice peppery taste.

smstonypoint · May 9, 2011

The radish is a vulgar article of the diet with the remarkable power of causing flatulence and eructation.

Your humble servant,
Pliny the Elder

MossRoad · May 9, 2011

Eat yourself a bag of radishes and drink yourself a can of warm Coke as fast as you can. Then burp in a crowded room. See how popular that makes you. :laughing:

jinman · May 9, 2011

MossRoad said:
Eat yourself a bag of radishes and drink yourself a can of warm Coke as fast as you can. Then burp in a crowded room. See how popular that makes you. :laughing:

Jeez Moss! That's sure a lot of work just to prove a point.

I love radishes with salt (no longer allowed) and in salads. I like to pick them as soon as they get to be the diameter of a quarter or half-dollar. When they get big or dry out a bit, they sure get pithy as Bird said. My problem with radishes and turnips is that I'm the only one around who eats them. Foolishly, I grew a bunch in my garden back in 2006 and couldn't use or give them away quickly enough. The photo I took is the radishes on May 10th. I never grew the white ones; only the red ones. You can see that I experimented with planting in a row and just sowing the seed. The seed I sowed came up so thick that I thinned them twice and they still looked like the crowded plants in the photo. Maybe I'll find a small corner of my current garden to plant a small plot in future years.

deepNdirt · May 9, 2011

we grew some long neck radishes last year, thought perhaps would be more to eat,:licking: although they weren't as good tasting as the standard red radishes

needless to say we planted the standard reds this year and their coming along nicely, Hope to harvest some in the next couple weeks:thumbsup: This year we decided to plant our tomatoes from seed

well we germinated the seeds before planting the actual plants, They are growing much healthier then having transplanted a hothouse plant, although running a bit behind in season, No blooms yet,

I'm already anxiously awaiting our first fried green tomato meal

MossRoad · May 9, 2011

jinman said:
Jeez Moss! That's sure a lot of work just to prove a point.

I love radishes with salt (no longer allowed) and in salads. I like to pick them as soon as they get to be the diameter of a quarter or half-dollar. When they get big or dry out a bit, they sure get pithy as Bird said. My problem with radishes and turnips is that I'm the only one around who eats them. Foolishly, I grew a bunch in my garden back in 2006 and couldn't use or give them away quickly enough. The photo I took is the radishes on May 10th. I never grew the white ones; only the red ones. You can see that I experimented with planting in a row and just sowing the seed. The seed I sowed came up so thick that I thinned them twice and they still looked like the crowded plants in the photo. Maybe I'll find a small corner of my current garden to plant a small plot in future years.

I take the time to plant about 20 seeds 1 inch apart. I repeat every week or two. I start as soon as the soil is workable. Around here, that usually means mid March. Unfortunately this year, it has been so wet that no seeds are germinating, just rotting in the ground. I went out last weekend and removed 250 strawberry plants (gave them all to good homes) and noticed the radishes (and carrots, spinach, peas and potatoes) finally poked through after a month in the ground. So next week I'll plant another patch. I can let them get to about the size of a quarter this time of year, but by the end of May I have to pick them dime sized or they'll bolt pretty quickly. I usually don't plant any June-August, but will plant them again in September and October.

sandman2234 · May 9, 2011

Even an old city slicker like me has radishes in his wife's garden....(red, good in salads, need thinning, pretty much the same as all other posters)
David from jax

markrahn · May 9, 2011

here is a couple of pics of some I just pulled out of the ground. The first pic is from about a week ago. the second is from mothers day when I remembered we needed some for our salad. thought they would be tastless or bad, man they were hot. these are the pink lady variety I believe.

jimmyj · May 10, 2011

Yum! Love radishes. I'm waiting eagerly for some to pick but it'll be a month yet.

The red ones "cherry belle" are tasty and also "easter egg mix". The long white ones "daikon" are too hot for me, but man they get huge.

Mmmm, radishes.