So this is how it’s going to be, isn’t it? Every year, the radishes jump up and shout after a few warm days and some rain…”Ooh, ooh! Pick me first! I’m ready! Over here!” 2009′s First Radishes
Posts Tagged ‘radishes’
17 May
May 2009 Backyard Garden
Gardening by numbers Bed 1 is my wife’s herb garden with an 8 foot row of cucumbers along the fence. Just seeded this weekend. Bed 2 has strawberries, three kinds of peppers and a couple eggplants I got at the farmer’s market this weekend. Bed 3 is seeded with sweet corn on the left [...]
3 May
Saving Seeds from Radishes
Did you know that radishes will grow over 4 feet tall? I planted a pot of radish seeds in the greenhouse this December. The seeds took a month or perhaps even 6 weeks to germinate in the cold temperatures. While they were growing, I was actually able to eat 4 or 5 small ones, pulled [...]
30 Dec
Zone 5 Greenhouse New Year update
The radish seeds I sowed in the greenhouse in a pot on December 5th started to show their heads last week. Yesterday many had come up! There were several consecutive nights of 0 degree weather outside (in degrees fahrenheit, 32 below freezing), and the greenhouse got as cold as 19 by morning once, but the radishes [...]
26 Nov
2009 Tentative Garden Layout
8 ft x 6 ft beds. The lettuce at the top will be planted on/in 20 inch high bales of straw, thanks to a few awesome bloggers who taught me this trick in their posts. I’m going to do a broccoli experiment this spring. I’ll plant two whole beds of broccoli, one with a closer [...]
21 May
Radish harvest, green tomatoes, baby broccoli
I harvested these radishes tonight…the first time I’ve done enough “picking” in one night this year to use the word “harvest.” Interesting how they can vary so much in size. These were picked from a 2 square foot patch that I planted together with carrots. I left almost as many radishes in the ground as [...]
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