Radish for Four?

Friends came over earlier for a visit and brought some home-grown radishes and broad beans. I've just finished shelling the beans and thought I'd show you a radish (firm and crisp) and a bean ...



This guy knows nothing about gardening and just bungs things in and hopes for the best! :eek:

 

Well, he sure had a green thumb with the radishes!

 

Drop that on your toe LoL and it could do some damage! What a size!!

Picked the first of our radishes today along with the last of the over-winter lettuce and they made a rather nice filling to ham sandwiches eaten on the patio in the 24C (I kid you not) sunshine.
Our broad beans in the polytunnel have just set flower so we should be eating ours by late May.

 

:D Sure its not a beetroot LoL.

 

I`m green with envy.The radish looks like a cricket ball! One of my brothers used to call them hot strawberries. :D

 

Do they taste as good as the piddly efforts we grow in uk ?

 

They taste lovely ... crisp and very peppery. They share their veggies with us as I don't grow them so hopefully we will have more of these! :rolleyes:

The beans weren't so exciting though! :(

 

If you cook broad beans with some smoked bacon, then thicken the liquid and season with salt, black pepper and savory, you have a very yummy and hearty meal. Serve with boiled potatoes. I even like any left-overs cold!

 

lol, thats a big radish. mine have been in about a week and are starting to come through now.

 

re radishes!!!
What am I doing wrong. Sowed two lots of radish seeds and both have come up leggy. Nothing on the bottom of them at all just long shoots.
Help anyone, I'm going crazy.
By the way I sowed them in pots in the greenhouse.
thanks

 

Hi Gloria - My guess is that either they've been too warm (they won't normally form bulbs if above about 80F) or they've been sown too close.
They grow very quickly so you've got plenty time to sow more either in pots outside or in the ground.

 

I picked a radish today that wasnt quite that big but was the size of a ping pong ball. I should have taken a photo but I'd only time to run out and pick some radish to go with my lunch before dashing off to work.

I do have some other potential monsters lurking in the veg patch and will take photos

The big radish was so peppery it made my eyes water!

 

Nice one LoL. Think you've shown that pic b4 though. Still very impressive. I've neber grown them that big but when they have been a lerge size they have been hollow in the centre! Is this likely to be irregular watering do you think?

 

Morning, JohnBinks. I didn't grow that radish and this thread has just been pulled forward regardig radishes. The ones I had were not hollow in the middle and like Kaytutt's were very peppery, which both t'other half and I thought nice.

As to the irregular watering, perhaps someone else can answer that. I do know the person who grew these monsters planted various things and went off to England for two months and was surprised when he came back that there was anything, so it may not have been on irrigation. We also had a lot of rain during that time.

 

they tell me that radishes should be sown when the moon is decreasing