Friday, April 20, 2012

Lots of Radishes!

I was never that fond of radishes. I think it is the hot/ bitter snap taste at the end. But through the years I have started to almost like them- especially home grown. I think store bought radishes can have a more bitter flavor while fresh garden radishes are sweeter.

This year I decided to grow some in between my carrots. I grew the carrots using Granny's seed mat tutorial. I spaced the carrots 2 inches apart in all directions. I added radish seeds 1 inch from the carrot seeds (creating staggered rows 1" apart, every other row: carrot, radish, carrot, radish etc..)


The radishes came up within days:


Here you can just barely see the carrots coming up in between the radish leaves:



and just over 30 days later the carrots are about an inch tall and I'm carefully harvesting the radishes. This is today's harvest:


These will go into a few salads, but most will go to my mom this weekend, she LOVES radishes.
After I harvested I started to think about where I could plant more, they are beautiful to look at :)

6 comments:

  1. Love it! I planted mine with carrots and beets because they're slow risers :)

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    1. It's great for saving space, I didn't even think about beets! I seem to be running out of squares to plant in already.

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  2. Great idea! We really aren't very fond of radishes around here though.

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    1. Yeah I decided against growing more for now. I need to start thinking about saving room for warm weather crops!

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  3. Hey, yours grew faster than mine, LOL! Aren't they pretty when perfectly spaced like that?

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    1. LOL! They went from being seedlings to full plants in about a week with this warm weather we've been having. It makes them so neat and tidy. But what I'm most amazed by is that all of the seeds seem to have germinated. I wonder if the paper and glue helps germination along by keeping the seed moist?

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