Growing radishes is one of the easiest gardening activities. Sown today and freshly harvested four weeks later on sandwiches or in salads. Radish farming keeps what it promises – always a successful harvest. Provided you follow a few rules.
How to successfully grow and harvest radishes?
Radish cultivation is easy in garden beds, balcony boxes or planters with good soil by sowing them in rows, ensuring sufficient moisture and choosing the right location. The harvest takes place within 30 days of ripening and is done by simply pulling out the tubers.
There is always time for radishes – from March to September
If you start growing radishes at the beginning of March, you will harvest the first tender tubers at the beginning of spring. Depending on the variety, they only need 30 days of ripening. Due to their short culture period of four to eight weeks, they can be planned as a pre- or post-culture of other vegetables.
Radishes may not be cultivated again in the same location until three years later at the earliest. If crop rotation is not followed, diseases and pest infestations increase.
Prepare the seed area and grow radishes
Radishes love bright, partially shaded places. Either in the garden bed, balcony box or planter. Radishes thrive in a mixture of normal garden soil or potting soil (€2.00 at Amazon) with compost and a little sand. You should not sow them as neighbors of melons or cucumbers. These remove too much water from the tubers.
Sowing radishes in rows. Maintain a row spacing of around 10 centimeters and around 4 centimeters when sowing. Otherwise, the radish plants will have to be laboriously pricked out at a later date. Radishes are thirsty! Keep evenly moist during the growing phase. But avoid waterlogging!
Harvest and enjoy radishes
Radishes are simply pulled out of the ground by their leaves. They taste best freshly harvested on the table, in a salad or as a topping for bread. Wrapped in a damp cloth, the tubers can be stored in the refrigerator without the cabbage for 1 to 2 days.
Delicious radishes can be easily grown in window boxes or in beds. The red tubers require little care and ripen so quickly that they are ideal for beginners or a children's bed. It's a joy to see them grow and to be able to harvest the fruits of their work in just 4 weeks.
Radish pests and diseases
From mid-May there is a danger from above from the cabbage fly and the cabbage white butterfly. A net over the radish bed protects the seeds. Flea beetles settle in the dry soil from below. These can be prevented by maintaining consistent soil moisture.
Remove radishes that are infected with radish black fungus immediately. Their rapid growth spares radishes from many pests and diseases. Before larvae, viruses or germs develop, the tubers are harvested and consumed.
Tips & Tricks
Do you want to surprise your guests? Or delight children with young garden vegetables? These radish mice are guaranteed to be well received, are he althy and taste absolutely delicious. You can bet your green thumb on this: everyone likes to eat radish mice - enjoy your meal!
