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(Best months for planting Radish in New Zealand - cool/mountain regions)

• Easy to grow.
• Harvest in 40-50 days
• Sow in garden. Sow seed at a depth approximately three times the diameter of the seed.
• Best planted at soil temperatures between 8°C and 30°C.
• Space plants: 3-5cm

Small, spicy tasting root vegetable usually round but some longer varieties . Available in a range of colours between red and white.

Very easy to grow. Good for a child's first garden as seedlings appear in two or three days. Sow between other vegetables as they will mark the rows until the slower germinating plants appear.

Culinary hints - cooking and eating Radish

Wash well and remove leaves and roots.
Use raw in salads or on their own with bread and butter.

Your comments and tips

09 Dec 08 George Booth (New Zealand - temperate climate)

All I get is plenty of lush greenery and very small Red bits. This is in Central Otago.

15 Dec 08 Chris (New Zealand - cool/mountain climate)

George, maybe the soil is overfertilised? Too much nitrogen could result in lots of leaf growth.

30 Dec 08 catherine (New Zealand - temperate climate)

we had the same problem with the round red radishes but the french type longer red/white ones were fantastic- perhaps try a different variety?

19 Nov 09 Janine (New Zealand - temperate climate)

The leaves on curling up, could this be from overwatering? In Auckland.

21 Feb 10 mona (New Zealand - sub-tropical climate)

i have planted raddish in a tray, they are growing well and the saplings are 5 cms.how do I transplant them and when

28 Feb 10 Lance (New Zealand - temperate climate)

Transplanting any root veg is a bad idea, you want to sow directly into the garden so try to get them out of your seed trays ASAP.

31 Oct 10 Jhg (New Zealand - temperate climate)

My radishes are growing well but have little burrows in them... What should I do?

12 Nov 10 Deane Keenan (New Zealand - temperate climate)

I planted a packet called cocktail (i think) its a mix of all kinds of radish, they are so cool, I have white round ones, red round ones, red long ones, and purple ones. Got the packet from bunnings. Was just checking on here, as I didn't know you could get white ones. Thanks Gardengrow. Love your site. christchurch

01 Feb 11 Glenn (New Zealand - temperate climate)

I am growing the small round raddish Yates "Salad Crunch" The problem with them in that very few of the roots are fattening into raddishes,most are staying thin and stringy.They are watered regularly and the soil is not over fertilized with nitrogen. Is it possibly too hot and the plants are concentrating on leaf and seed development in which case should I avoid sowing Dec -Jan in future ?

05 Dec 11 dianne (New Zealand - temperate climate)

my radishs are growing very well the leaves are also nice and green so i was wonding if you can you eat the leaves of the radish if so how