Quick Radish Tips - Garden Quickie Episode 150

[@TheRipeTomatoFarms]

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[@jenniferhenderson4674]

Roasted radishes are my favorite 🌿 Drizzle with a balsamic reduction...oh, my!

[@nataliemiramontes4045]

I grew my first French Breakfast radishes this spring! They were so good! I want to grow more!

[@thatonegirl1837]

Great video! Seed saving from radishes is easy too.

[@TheRipeTomatoFarms]

Thanks! And yes, definitely save those seeds! 🙂

[@jimmcdowell9017]

#1 secret to growing radishes is Ripe Tomato Farms videos!

[@TheRipeTomatoFarms]

Ha he thanks! Appreciate that!

[@Videos-hp3lb]

Roasted radishes with garlic in a little olive oil are excellent. I also use the leaves in a pot of greens!

[@m373x]

Love the garden quickies, short sweet fun and to the point! Keep em up! I did lots of experiments with container radishes this year. I managed to grow cherry belle and french breakfast varieties in as little as 3 inches of soil in containers which took the same amount of time as my 6 inch containers. Only downside was more frequent watering. I let one of them flower and it's currently 85 cm tall and going lol, can't wait to try the pods and save my own seeds.

[@cynthiawendell6425]

I grow lots of radishes. Always wondered if the tops would be good. Thanks for sharing

[@thatonegirl1837]

The greens are very nutritious. I throw them in a salad.

[@allthingsiro]

Yes you can eat the greens.

[@TheRipeTomatoFarms]

Definitely Cynthia! 🙂

[@TheRipeTomatoFarms]

@@thatonegirl1837 I wonder if they cool well in stir fry?

[@thatonegirl1837]

@@TheRipeTomatoFarms There ya go! Expand your videos to cooking what you grow!

[@puissance]

Exactly what I was looking for today! Thanks!

[@TheRipeTomatoFarms]

Happy that you liked it, thanks for checking it out!

[@allthingsiro]

The easiest crop I grow. Also fast growing. I pickle them and also roast them. So yummy.

[@eyeYQ2]

Sounds great!!

[@TheRipeTomatoFarms]

Soooo yumm! 🙂

[@darlenecameron622]

I have a hard time growing radishes (and beets) going to give it another shot by planting some seeds today. I love the ending with your little ladybug friend ❣️

[@marilynturcotte5304]

I still have a nice space in my raised garden beds, so I only have to get some seeds.

[@OboeQueen27]

Radishes are always a magnet for flea beetles, i finally got a crop in, planting in a cold frame. Seedlings were just big enough to survive the intense infestation with some help from diatomaceous earth. I have almost no arugula that survived their attack.

[@lauracarrier6158]

Unfortunately the flea beetles are attacking my arugula and ignoring my radishes right now.

[@debiegordon3787]

Great video Jeff...would a Fish Emulsion be good fertilizer for the once feeding?

[@TheRipeTomatoFarms]

You bet Debi...I use it on my radishes often! 🙂

[@MorroccoM13]

Never knew the tops are edible! This year my rads are struggling to grow. In a plastic container that has many drainage holes. Soil is loose. I hit it with an application of 3-3-2 agro-thrive. It perked them up some but still not quick growing. We are having an unusual late May and early June with nights in the lower to mid 40'sF. Uugghhhhh. Thanx for another great video.

[@justinsane7128]

My radishes have been amazing this spring

[@kristin143]

i use bone meal mixed on my container with soil before direct sowing, works good! ...

[@TheRipeTomatoFarms]

Nice! Gotta keep doing what works for you...

[@kristin143]

@TheRipeTomatoFarms yes & it's my first success so far, 2 years I always tried and it's a fail..first one I planted too late, second I did transplant and not direct seed..and this year is my year, I'm so happy I tried again! ...

[@TheRipeTomatoFarms]

@@kristin143 3rd time is a charm!!

[@kristin143]

@@TheRipeTomatoFarms yeah, thank u! 😊 ...

[@gm7304]

Great video Thank You

[@4toes1nose]

I learned a lesson today about a Variety I was unfamiliar with called Rat tail. I planted it the green section grew to 2 1/2 feet tall with a heavy dose of beautiful small flowers. I waited and waited and waited finally thinking that they must be ready so I pulled one finding a small root about 2 1/2 inches long, Nothing like the photograph on the envelope I thought I was just being impatient so I wait another couple of weeks pulled one of the radishes and had the same thing a very small root, so I’m staring at the radishes I noticed that the rat tails in the picture on the seed envelope are the same but they were Growing above ground each Individual plant had three or four tail radishes each. The description didn’t say that they grew above ground.

[@TheRipeTomatoFarms]

Wow...very cool Kevin....I've never heard about that cultivar before.

[@itowmyhome797]

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[@davidthedeaf]

Rat tail radishes are not harvested for roots, but the seed pods from flowers. You wait for them to plump up but not get old, and then can cook them seed and pod and all.

[@TheRipeTomatoFarms]

@@davidthedeaf what do they taste like?

[@itowmyhome797]

They have a mild radish flavor, I eat them raw right out of the Garden. The plant does get rather large, 2+ feet tall and a foot plus wide, Now that I know what I’m dealing with, you probably don’t need to let them grow that large

[@Maggdusa]

I planted 32. A handful are growing well. The rest aren't getting enough sun.

[@TheRipeTomatoFarms]

Yeah, they really do like full sun to grow to their fullest.

[@shadytreez]

That is a ton of radishes!

[@aeastman59]

what does it mean if you do all this but the radishes just dont grow, or if they grow its only the green tops a little... my radishes just wont grow... I guess its the soil but Im not sure how to ammend that... I have kale growing fine in the same soil so it seems like greens are doing ok which means its a soil high in nitrogen? so what would I need to add to make the soil grow beets or radishes? thanks Jeff!

[@TheRipeTomatoFarms]

9 times out of 10, it's the soil.. Too wet, not enough aeration, high salts, etc hard to nail down sometimes unfortunately

[@davidthedeaf]

@@TheRipeTomatoFarms how can we test if too much salts? Is there a way?

[@scottbaruth9041]

I plant 4 50-foot rows of radishes for farmers' markets every week. I have clay soil, but I amend it with horse manure every fall and sometimes chopped leaves. Cow or horse manure, tilled in each fall, will produce the nicest radishes you would ever ask for. No fertilizer is needed. The seed does make a difference just like any other vegetable. True leaf sells a "lady slipper" variety I would recommend. Rupp sells a Royal crunch red round type and a white one called pearl that customers love. Forget the French breakfast and icicle type, stay updated with the newer varieties, because they just grow and look much nicer. But if you have issues growing radishes, I would work that soil. Compost, manure, leaves, and grass clippings turn poor soil into outstanding soil every time.

[@aeastman59]

@@scottbaruth9041 thank you so much Scott! I did buy bags of supposedly good raised bed soil but now Im wondering... and I think it may be high in wood compost maybe... I will add the things you mention and check out those seeds!

[@eyeYQ2]

Over 90+ here in Michigan. Hell of a yr. so far. chipmunks, raccoons, deer, opossum ground hog. We set a live trap for the ground hog, caught one, it was a BABY! So, let it go, now we have to figure out what to do!! We sprayed hot sauce... he eats a TON! Ruined my cabbage : ( SO upsetting!! Row cover!!$$$ We have to garden like our life depends on it, because it does. Oh, and NO rain. Don't you all feel sorry for us?😭❤

[@TheRipeTomatoFarms]

Ughhh....I DO feel for you!

[@eyeYQ2]

@@TheRipeTomatoFarms Thank you! We MUST persevere.

[@eyeYQ2]

I'm not 90, lol. The temp, is 90* .

[@TheRipeTomatoFarms]

@@eyeYQ2 ha ha ha! I know! I meant about the greedy pests! Lol

[@davidthedeaf]

Best hot weather growers for me are herbs like zaatar, thyme, oregano, etc. When we had a record breaking 115 here during Covid, and I was in hospital during another 100+ day last year, even without watering for 2 weeks they just kept living and doing fine. But man cannot live on herbs alone!

[@AugustLeo1619]

I have no luck with radishes

[@TheRipeTomatoFarms]

Have you tried them in containers yet?

[@davidthedeaf]

Me either. I tried again this year. I get greens on top, and then bolt. Never gets big bulb. Not even a tiny one. Just a root.

[@davidthedeaf]

@@TheRipeTomatoFarms i grow mine in containers, still a nope. I also have them more than an inch apart.

[@jennyjill0523]

Same! Every year I try and nothing

[@TheRipeTomatoFarms]

@@davidthedeaf dang... Do you think it's getting too hot?

[@vladimir7759]

Загустил, одна зелень растет а редиса нет😂