Radishes

[DAY]

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

 

[smstonypoint]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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.