Whether in a salad, on bread or simply from hand to mouth, everyone loves eating radishes. Children love them because you can literally watch them grow in the children's bed. If you plan your radish sowing wisely, you will always have fresh radishes.
How do you sow radishes correctly?
When sowing radishes, you should loosen the soil and keep it airy and moist. Sow in bright, semi-shady places, with a row spacing of 10 cm and at least 4 cm between seeds. The seeds should be sown 1 cm deep. Keep the soil evenly moist.
As soon as the ground is frost-free, you can sow radishes at temperatures from around 10°C. The radish seeds are about 3 millimeters in size, brown and egg-shaped. You can pick them up individually and sow them in doses. These are fast growing spring varieties.
- Saxa
- Knacker
- Cyros F1
- Lucia
- Vienna
- Icicle Vitus
- French Breakfast
If you value convenient sowing in gardener quality, you can buy ready-made seed tapes (€4.00 on Amazon). This automatically keeps you at the right distance when sowing.
So that the fresh sowing grows into powerful plants, it is recommended to use sowing soil. Compared to plant soil, it contains hardly any nutrients. If the seedlings initially receive fewer nutrients, they form stronger roots to supply nutrients.
Prepare soil for sowing radishes
Radishes want airy, moist soil. Therefore, ventilate the soil and let the wind evaporate the soil. If it breaks down in the hand it is perfect for sowing radishes. Now it offers enough oxygen for germination.
Good to know: Radishes need a lot of light. Therefore only sow in bright, partially shaded places. Maintain a row spacing of 10 centimeters. And leave at least 4 centimeters of space between the seeds. Sowing shallowly in 1 centimeter deep grooves shapes the tubers more evenly. If the seeds are sown too deep, the tubers will grow misshapen and elongated.
Keep radishes well and evenly moist after growing. It takes around four to eight weeks from sowing to harvesting. Ideally, you should only gradually sow as much as you actually eat. Then we have crisp, fresh garden radishes all season long.
Sowing radishes even without a garden bed
Growing radishes can also be done successfully in balcony boxes. Fill fertilized potting soil into the flower box. The distance between the individual seeds should be around 4 centimeters. Now the soil is kept moist. After about a month, the first radishes will be harvested. And the funny, red radish mice as a party snack also delight everyone.
Tips & Tricks
If you start your radish harvest early, you are guaranteed to get poison- and maggot-free tubers.
