79.00

Scientific name: Raphanus stivas
GERMINATION RATE : 85%
Number of french breakfast radish Seeds /pkt : 50
Type of seed : Premium Heirloom Seeds
Sunlight : Full
Life-cycle : Annual
Ease-of-care: Easy

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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. French Breakfast is an oblong radish that grows 1 1/2 to 2 inches, scarlet up top in color with a bright white tip. Sweet, tender and mild.

Nutritional Value:
Radishes contain Vitamin C, calcium, magnesium, folate, and potassium. The bright red coloring indicates the presence of anthocyadinins, which are antioxidants. Natural medicine practitioners recommend radishes for stimulating digestion. Radish is one of the nutritious root vegetables featured in both salads as well as in main recipes. This widely used root vegetable belongs to the family of Brassica.

Features:
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 18°C and 30°C.
Space plants: 3-5cm

Planting/Growing Tips:
When preparing the soil, avoid fresh manure and organic materials or fertilizers high in nitrogen. An overly rich soil will encourage lush foliage at the expense of crisp, tasty roots. When the radish seedlings are about two inches tall, thin the plants to three-inch spacings. If not thinned, you’re likely to end up with shriveled, inedible roots. Mulch the radishes with compost enriched with wood ashes. This not only keeps root maggots at bay, but also helps the soil retain moisture that could mean the difference between perfect and pitiful radishes. Water in moderation. If the soil is too dry, radishes will bolt and become pithy and too pungent to eat. If too wet, the roots will split and rot. Never let the soil dry out, but don’t keep it mucky, either. Radishes are superb companion plants, particularly when used to draw aphids, flea beetles, and other pests away from peppers, squash, cukes, and other vegetables.
Can be sown in the same row with carrots, parsley, parsnips and other slow germinating crops. The radishes help to break soil crust for the weaker and later-germinating crops.

Maintenance and care:
Because they mature quickly, radishes make a good intercrop along with slower growing crops, such as other cabbage family crops, or tomato- or squash family crops. Or follow radish harvest with summer succession crops such as beans, or fall-harvested crops.
To help reduce disease, do not plant radishes or other cole crops in the same location more than once every three or four years.

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