1st crop of radishes

[hawthorns]

ive just had my first crop of radish along with some mixed salad leaves. has anyone else harvested anything yet.

[davefromthechipie]

Nope my radish/salads growing so slow atm :/ going by the look of the plants iv got 3 weeks yet . only veg keeping me going is PSB , Kale and waitrose atm ...

[zazen999]

i run 365 day harvesting as I grow year round; but tis good to see early crops. My tomato now has about 6 open flowers, so hoping for earlies [even if they are just on vege bacon toasties]. A few weeks yet but still exciting to see them coming on so early.

[Minty]

Yep we had our first radishes yesterday and our spring cabbage needs about another week or so

[lottielady]

My radishes are nearly ready and my daughter has started eating the salad straight from the garden

[T-lady]

Also harvesting radishes and salad leaves - but from the greenhouse, not the garden.

We're down to our last 3 leeks, some swiss chard (just starting back into growth), perpetual spinach and the scabby end of the kale plants. Need to work on my all year round cropping plan for next year!

[deezyb]

lucky you hawthorns - I'm out in the veg patch everyday willing them to grow a bit faster! shouldn't be too long now...another 3 weeks prob!

[axj]

The axj household has been feasting on radishes now for the last couple of weeks, fantastic. They took about 4 weeks to get to eating size... never grown them before, but the flavour just stays in the mouth for hours. The kids get home form school and the first thing they want to do is hunt for radishes, it's all from a window box, so they just lean out of the kitchen window. I am sure the locals think we are mad, everyone else grows flowers, has mini rock gardens or cacti LoL... If you can't eat it, or use it for medicine, don't bother is my motto. Well, that in an appartment anyway, different in a rambling garden :-)

[axj]

I should have mentioned in the previous post... made one major mistake with our radish crop. A friend has a riding school, so I though great, organic fertiliser, i.e. horse manure. When I was prepping the window boxes (NB these are built in to the fabric of the building, a good four feet deep by eight feet wide by two and a half feet out.) I added some axj dung. Oh bother, radishes don't like manure, well actually they love it, fantastic display of leaf, many radishes as thin as a pencil, even after five weeks. Happily we didn't put too much manure in, so plenty of radishes grew great. But a warning to all, if you've whacked in some manure, don't get too excited about a bumper crop of root veg.

I learn from trial and error LoL

[vegtable newbie!]

Cant wait for my first harvest!!

Sue
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[Anita Plot]

Had some radish from the greenhouse.

[momol]

I have been harvesting leavy vegetables from last year grown and they are still loads to be harvest but this morning was special : fresh spinach from february grown .

[squashysu]

mine are coming along lovely, how will i know when they are ready though, will i see them peeping from the ground, i have sown some direct and also planted some that i had in seed trays, they are all looking great at the mo.

[axj]

you'll see their little red heads peeping from the ground, just brush around the base of the stalk below the leaves, if you don't see the dome of the radish, leave it be. When they get really big they almost climb out of the ground by themselves, although for many people they are a bit hot and woody by this stage. Ideal size is between half an inch and three quarters. I have pulled some in error and stuck them back in and they have carried on just fine, resilient little things, and of course you can keep sowing the little angels all through the year. Hope that helps =8¬)

[squashysu]

thanks axj

i grew some in the prop in the greenhouse and planted out last week and my have they grown, also sowed some seeds straight in the ground and they have lovely leaves already! so must be doing something right!! lol - cheers for your help

SS