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Posted by Pink_Petunia 2a (My Page) on Fri, Jun 10, 05 at 10:06
| So why does my radish go mostly to tops every single year? Out of about 25 radish maybe only 2 or 3 produced ever other is all tops! |
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| I am no expert, but it's my understanding that radishes like cool temperatures and adequate moisture. They do better in plenty of sun and good soil as well, though are somewhat adaptable to hard soil. They can take light frost. Just my personal feeling, but I feel there is only a limited "window of opportunity" to grow cool season crops in Manitoba. You know what they say, it almost seems to change from winter to summer overnight, or at least within a couple of months. That's not to say it can't be done, lots of gardeners plant lettuce, radishes, cabbage. Even market gardeners and commercial growers. What I mean is ideal growing weather for those plants probably starts the first week in May but by the middle of June, depending on the individual year, things may start getting too warm and dry for them. Of course last year you probably could have grown them all summer with the cool wet weather. Too warm or dry means lettuce may start to bolt and radishes may start to bloom without producing a good root first. Interesting to hear from more experienced growers, however. If plants like radishes are kept too moist, say to soggy due to excessive rains, could that cause problems and improper root development as well? Glen |
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| I have that problem less now that I am seeing to it that the soil in my radish rows get loosened up 1 or 2 days after every rain. When they are still tiny I do it with a hand trowel. Later a hoe works okay. Also, once they look like they are inclined to fill out, I hill the dirt up around the red part, just like I do with my beets. Each time I feel the need to loosen the soil again, I re-hill to accommodate the increasing size of the radish and what the rain has displaced. I have had a much higher percentage of filled out radishes since I started my loosening and hilling policy. Carmellia |
RE: Radish
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| I tried for years to grow radishes without success. I finally gave up. |
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I also gave up after some years!
They just grew leafs for me, noting really on the bottom!
....but as a kid, I was successful growing them in Switzerland |
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| Try wintersowing them. I wintersowed peas and spinach last March. I had great crops - in pots on my deck tho, not in the ground. I might try some radishes next year. I have a couple of those long windowbox-like plastic planters. I had two of them jam-packed with spinach last spring. (Planted a whole pkg of seeds in each one!) |
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| Yo, people. My radishes in my garden aren't producing radishes. My Early Scarlett Globe radishes are to be harvested in 30 days. It has been 34. I pulled one and there was nothing there. I pulled another and still nothing. I am afraid that if i pull again my plants will die. Why are my radishes not producing their fruits? Does anyone have advice for me. P.S. i am in south carolina |
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| I knew a neighbor who could not grow them either . She used lawn fertilizer on her garden it stimulated to much leaf growth . Save the ones that come out good and let them go to seed save the seeds for next years crop . They will be perfectly adapted to your garden. |
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| My experience is to make very sure they are thinned very early before the first true leaves or they only produce leaves. It is probably easiest to just place the seed about 2 inches apart in the rows for home gardening. Also different varieties seem to be more or less tolerant of closer spacing. Generally the larger the root the wider they need to be spaced. But always very early thinning!!! |
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Absolutely! Thinning is vital. They have to have room or they will go straight to tops. My early crops are always quite nice; ones planted later, towards the end of June, tend to go to tops & I have a lot more problem with root maggots.
Connie |
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Oh Man,
I was wondering about my radish crop...tons of leaf, but, I didn't thin yet...when is it too, toooo late to thin? my radish's have nickle size leafs now...my first garden in about 10 years, doing great otherwise...thanks for any advice..
grojoegro |
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| I'm in a pinch with my french breakfast radishes/purple top turnips/mizuna mustards/black spanish radishes. Mind you, its november in Central Florida; cool air but a hot sun. There are parts of my yard that get at most 6 hours of sunlight, which is what I want, but whenever I move my plants into those areas they start to wilt because it is too hot. Yet where I'm growing them right now, although it seems like it is making them happy, I'm afraid that they arent going to properly produce roots. I'm growing them in long, rectangular self-watering planters. I'm doing good about keeping the soil moist so it isn't a lack of water.. what should I do? would row-cover shade the crops better? thanks |
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| kanep When you move any plant from shade into sun it will wilt. You are changing the growing conditions of the plant. The treating them like you are hardening them off. Move into the sun for a couple of hours and then move them back. Gradually leave them in the sun longer and longer. They will become used to the increased sun and not wilt |
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