What's Your Favorite Radish To Grow?

[ginger ninger]

This is also research for the "Back To My Roots" parcel .

I've sown quite a few different radishes this year. I like good strong flavoured ones that have a nice crunch & hot bite.

I've sown...

French Breakfast 2.
French Breakfast 3.
Pink Slipper.
Long White Icicle.
Zlata.
Osterguss Rosa (German Salad Radish)...so far.

So I was wondering...

"What's your favorite radish to grow?".

Any recommendations, pit falls, ones you thought were rubbish, poor germination, best flavour, hot or mild etc ya know...ones you love growing year after year.

[Potstubsdustbins]

French Breakfast 3" lots of good tasty radish for very little ground. My grandaughter loves to pick one wah it under the tap and eat it. Only the leaves go in the dalek.

Colin

[Florence Fennel]

I'm sowing some Long White Icicle again this year, but they failed miserably last year as did the German thingys. French Breakfast and Sparkler are a success every year for me.

[Jeanied]

My favourite is an old fashioned variety 'Cherry Belle' - nice and crunchy and very mild.

[ginger ninger]

I'm sowing some Long White Icicle again this year, but they failed miserably last year as did the German thingys. French Breakfast and Sparkler are a success every year for me.

I bought some "Sparkler" from Netto last year...19p and worth every penny.

[Florence Fennel]

What a bargain Ginge, especially when you think how much a bunch are to buy in the supermarket. My children and granchildren can tell the difference now between home grown and shop bought, although youngest GG is not keen on the radishes "with the little holes in them".

[Gemmalaveen]

Cherry Belle is my favourite too, and most successful. Homebase sells this variety as part of their value range, 39p a packet.

I have also tried Sparkler 3 and didn't have much success with it last year, but it seems to be doing better this year... ate some of these crunchy, punchy flavoured radishes in a salad yesterday. Yum!

[binley100]

Confession time ...........I have trouble growing radish

[Jono]

Sparkler is may favourite. I find them sweeter than other varieties, and less prone to going 'rooty'. I also love the perfect spherical shape.

[Lotsaveg]

Agree with all the Sparkler fans! Reliable and tasty (the radishes, not the fans!). Have just had a salad for tea using three types... a horrible hard skinned mustard coloured radish that I lost the name of... which was very bitter!!.... , a white icicle which was tasty but not very nice looking, and good old Sparkler which was spot on!

[Flummery]

I'm a Long White Icicle fan too. Until I discovered Mooli - the Japanese radish - also sold as April Cross. I easily get 6 inch long ones, like a huge white carrot and they are fantastic dipped in humous.

[falkon]

My favourites are

1) French Breakfast
2) cherry belle
3) F1 April Cross Mooli

although open to try others varieties

[chris]

I had a mooli randomly in a packet (only realised when I tried to pull these leaves up in a handful, and was suprised, thoguht Id' mis-sowned a parnsip!) It was very tasty mind *zing* in the mouth.

[iGrowVeg]

It has got to be 'Pink Beauty' as I like the very mild taste and colour or French Breakfast for a bit more of a bite.

[Skotch]

Mine is the winter variety, Spanish Black Round which I wont even begin to sow until August. Very peppery!