Radish and Beets?

[whyintellectual]

I am in zone 9/10 and I just put some seeds in for radish and beets. They all sprouted and are three inches tall in less than a week.

I have never grown either of these before so any advice would be welcomed.

Comments

[ravenfeather]

Keep your radishes picked. Depending on your soil (don't know if you are Cali or gulf coast) they will split before they get really big. I never had luck with beets in zone 8b/9 (south Georgia) unless it was the dead of winter, it got too hot too fast and they bolted. All I ever got was greens.

[whyintellectual]

I planted the beets for greens so that is actually good news. I have o idea what radishes will look like when they are ready to pick so I had better get to google and look it up.

p.s. I am in South Florida

[ravenfeather]

The radishes will show a little bump of a bulb in your sand, so they should be good. The beets in my experience form bulbs under the ground so i never saw any of them.

[loveshercoffee]

Radishes go along really fast. You should have some ready to pick in about a month. Pick them as soon as a bit of radish is showing above the soil, as if they're in the ground too long they get woody and are terrible. Cooler weather makes for the most flavorful ones but keep planting them in the heat if you like them hot. Most people do succession planting with radishes, planting a small row every week in order to have them all the time without getting too many at once.

[squid_ink]

I live on the border of zone 5 and 6 so can only guess as to whats going on... next year plant them earlier in your zone.

they're growing quickly but may not be as flavorful, beets and radish (along with garlic and spinach/kale) are really cool weather crops

[crystalyne]

We planted radishes once and they took over. Grew over 3 feet tall, about 2" diameter. Choked out our watermelons or pumpkins, can't remember which. I pointed out their weediness and my mom realized no one in my family actually like radishes, so we fulled them all up and threw them over the fence into the compost.