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It's Radish month at Heart Beets!


Radishes not only make your skin glow they are one of the easiest vegetables for children to grow.

Planting

  • Plant 4-6 weeks before the average date of last frost, after aged manure or organic fertilizer has been worked into soil.

  • Direct sow seeds ½ inch to an inch deep and one inch apart in rows 12 inches apart.

  • Thin to about 2-inch spacings. Crowded plants will not grow well.

  • Radishes need sun. If they are planted in too much shade—or even where neighboring vegetable plants shade them—they put all their energy into producing larger leaves.

  • Practice three-year crop rotation.

  • Plant consecutively every two weeks or so while weather is still cool for a continuous harvest of radishes.

  • Plan on a fall planting. You can plant radishes later than any other root crop in late summer or early fall and still get a harvest.

Care

  • Radishes require well-drained soil with consistent moisture. Keep soil evenly moist.

  • Thin radishes to about an inch apart when the plants are a week old. You will be amazed at the results.

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