A very easy-to-grow, hardy vegetable, which is spicy and crunchy and great in salads or straight from the ground, picked while you’re passing, with the dirt rubbed off first on your jeans! They are fast-growing and usually mature in about four weeks. The large winter and Oriental radishes are great winter vegetables
Radishes will gorw in almost any kind of soil
Radishes like sun and also partial shade. They are good to grow in amongst peas or beans as this provides the ideal conditions
Radishes can be sown from early spring until early autumn, thinly, in drills about 1cm deep that have already been watered. Make small sowings throughout the season, and grow them among the slower-growing crops to fill gaps.
Water carefully in dry weather or they may bolt or become woody - but don't overwater, which makes them put all their energy into the leaves and not the radish. And water regularly otherise they can split.
Summer radishes are best at about five weeks after planting. Left longer, they go a bit limp and leathery.
Winter radishes take about three or four months to reach their peak.
Keep the tops on and they'll store longer in the fridge
French Breakfat, mild-tasting on first harvesting, but becoming hot if left in the ground
Marabelle, small-leaved and easy to grow
Scarlet Globe, fast-growing and widely grown
Sparkler, reliable and quick to mature
flea-beetle
slugs and snails
cabbage root fly
