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Need help with radishes
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Posted by gomanson 4a MN (My Page) on Sat, Jul 4, 09 at 13:33
| This is my second year trying to grow French Breakfast radishes. I've tried them in containers, sandy soil, loamy soil, compact soil, windowbox, overwatered, underwatered, etc. They always sprout up quickly- they get their true leaves 5 days after I sow them! But, for all my efforts, I've produced one radish and by the time it was big enough to eat it was cracked and woody. What am I doing wrong! Or better yet, what's the recipe of thinning/sun/water/soil which will produce nice plump radishes in the supposed 25 days it says on the seed packet. Should I try a different variety? Any help would be great.
-Ross |
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RE: Need help with radishes
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I would like to know too. I tried my hand at white icicle radishes and they bottled to seed. I got 1 good radish... Now they are a huge sprawling mess of vines and and flowers/seeds pods.
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RE: Need help with radishes
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To little water makes them woody. To much water makes them crack .
To much fertilizer such as lawn fertilizer get all leaves no root bulbs . |
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