First Harvest. Oh dear. This isn’t how it looked on the seed packet.
I love radishes.
Well, I did as a child. They were the only vegetable I really liked to eat.
Radishes are red, crunchy and to six year old me they tasted great.
When planning my garden, I included radishes which we started from seed last April.
Here’s what I harvest this morning.
Is this a little odd?
A turnip.
Large enough to feed a family of five hungry bunnies.
I’m happy that it grew. Not so happy it grew this big.
That’s one of the problems of being a clueless farmer. How do you know when to pull something out of the ground? The green leaves were getting very large, but I thought there must be a bunch of small radishes tucked under there.
Wrong.
Mutant turnip radish.
So now going to get children out there and harvest all our Shaq O’Neal radishes. They’ll love it.
I am going to sow more seeds.
Little discouraged, but guess even Farmer Brown had these days.
Hey Jamie, That looks like a very old radish! Radishes are a very quick crop. somewhere around 17 to 20 days I believe. Check your seed packet for days to maturity and then check a few as it gets close.Love your writing. The deer fencing looks great ! I admire it everytime I drive by.
yes, jamie… this knobby guy looks like the perfect radish to feed to one of my goats. they think a lot like your six-year-old self. crunchy means good!
this specimen of radish may well be what prompted scarlet o’hara to declare to the world that she’d never go hungry again.
in our raised beds here in rutledge, we have successfully grown those little guys on the seed packets, but it was in winter. our spring and summer guys tend to be less sweet and tender.
good luck, and i’m excited to read of your greenthumb adventures.
keep them coming.
LOL, Jamie. I’m a flower gardener, and I have a wild, cottage-type garden. Each year, I tuck a few veggies in with the flowers and pray — survival of the fittest and all that. Sometimes, I yield a crop, sometimes not. One summer, I had a giant mutant zucchini. The poor thing got lost among the flowers and grew to be almost two-feet long. It sucked the life out of the rest of the vine. That’s all I got, one zucchini not for human consumption.
Am sooo laughing. I actually tasted one and it was HOT like a chili is hot. I had a little less than ten of the things so I should have saved them for your goats Angelina. And the warm weather verses cold weather makes sense. Oy vey ~ such the garden shiksa am I.
Snort! That’s hilarious! Maybe it was several radishes that fused together. So, did you eat it?
I did wash one off, cut it. I mean it looked like a radish. It was so bitter. Unbelievably bitter. I threw the lot away. My learning curve on radishes went little closer to the “C” range.