Can any one tell me if you let some radishes go to seed,will they reseed for next year?
Say!
I have some pop up here and there from plants i left in too long, but I never really leave them to reseed as they grow so well from a packet around here.. carrots do reseed however, and very well at that.
Thanks,haven't planted carrots in years and only the small varieties when I did.
I have a couple that I'm letting go to seed. Will see what happens!
Never knew they got so tall,have one about 3ft tall now!
they/re huge for what they are.. almost the size of okra.. I would expect that size from a turnip , maybe.
My always seem to bolt on me. Wish I could figure what I'm doing wrong!
i am not sure where you are in NY, but I am on the shoreline, with the typical clay soil. I find the radishes grow extremely quick, and like spring and fall only. Kinda like arugula. I plant them same time as leaf lettuce and start eating them in about a month. after two months, they tend to bolt right up..
my guess is your soil is too rich, or you just need to start planting them sooner in the spring..
Radishes love cool weather and bolt when it gets too warm. They mature quickly, so they're good for immediate gratification. You can stagger the planting time for a prolonged harvest period. Maybe plant some once a week for several weeks, then they'll be ready to harvest over a period of days rather than harvesting all of them at once.
I started mine in early march,they even got snowed on a couple times and still were the best radishes I ever grown.
The best ones I've even grown were wintersown, so maybe that's the trick for me. That year I had about 172 radishes out of about 250 seeds (but who's counting? LOL!)
I planted this year's batch BEFORE I could really work the soil. (First I pick-axed the ice. Then let it that. Then stirred it up and planted.) Must've planted about 100+ seeds, and only got about a dozen radishes. I can't really see how that was too late, but we did have one really HOT spell in April, so maybe I just hit at the perfect stage for them mature and bolt all at once.
I gotta tell ya - a dozen radishes just does NOT cut it! I did have my very first home grown salad Monday night though. Just lettuce, radishes and scallions, but yummy just the same. And i do have half a dozen grape tomatoes out there at varying stages of ripening. And the peas are in bloom... So, LIFE IS GOOD IN THE GARDEN!!
(Oh, I'm just across the line from Danbury.)
Maters on the vine already???
Mine already 4 ft tall lots of blooms no maters yet!
The ground really needs to be soft where you can run your fingers thru it,like cactus mix soil,lots of water and sunshine,mine were best ever this year,and the size of ping pongs balls,not hot,or pithy,they were really good,had about 100 or so but whos counting,ate them all in the first week!!!!
My radish have not done well. Got one decent sized one and a few that I thought were bigger than they actually were. Now they are going to seed.
Took a pic today of mine going to seed,love those yellow flowers,wonder if they are edible?
The bird bath is about 3 ft tall see how the radishes tower over it,there about 4ft tall,never knew they could get that tall.
I didn't know that either. I'm going to grow a few for seeds.