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- How can I tell if I can harvest the radishes?
- Ripe check on radishes - better sooner than too late
- Radishes reap in the late afternoon
- Collecting radish seeds yourself for the next year
- Tips & Tricks
How can I tell if I can harvest the radishes?
There is nothing better than harvesting fruits or vegetables in your own garden. Especially long joy comes up with radish. Because you can harvest them every day. Minimal work and maximum enjoyment - hobby gardeners are thrilled with the small, red tubers.
Ripe check on radishes - better sooner than too late
You can harvest the first radishes, depending on the variety, about a month after sowing. After 21 to 28 days daily, check the tuber size of the plants with the largest leaves. All tubers that cover 2 to 3 inches are ripe. They should not stick in the soil for more than 6 weeks, otherwise they will lose the typical pungent taste, become woody or spongy and burst.
To taste the radish, place the leaves in one hand and the tuber in the other. Then turn leaves and break off. Rinse radishes with cold water. Now comes the bite test. If they taste crisp, they are ripe. You can also harvest all others with the same tuber size.
Radishes reap in the late afternoon
Harvesting root vegetables such as radishes in the late afternoon guarantees the highest vitamin value and the lowest nitrate content. During the day, radishes use sunlight to store the nitrate stored in the tubers in the plant tissue. At night and in the morning, the nitrate content in the tubers is highest. Therefore, radishes should be harvested in the afternoon. For the Radishchenmäuse as a party snack in the evening or for the salad the next day.
Collecting radish seeds yourself for the next year
If you leave furry or woody radishes in the soil, they soon form pods. Once the pods turn light brown, the seed is ripe and can be dried. It is best kept in a paper bag. You can sow your own radish seeds next spring. So you are independent in the Radieschenaussaat of the seed purchase.
Tips & Tricks
Harvest radishes is too much work for you? Dutch engineers developed a radish robot with 90 pneumatic cylinders for 5 years. This harvests and bundles 4000 bundles of radish per hour. Just as much as 20 harvest workers. Remains to wait when the first mini radish robots harvest the radishes for hobby gardeners.