Re: N&C Midwest: August 2016; Hot Stuff!

**Scorpio Rising** 8/28/2016, 8:37 pm

Robbomb116 wrote:Thinned my radishes today. Put the seedlings in a salad. Officially the first thing I've eaten from my garden!

Rob, they tasted amazing!? Right? I love radish seedlings!

sunny

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countrynaturals 8/28/2016, 10:07 pm

Scorpio Rising wrote:
Robbomb116 wrote:Thinned my radishes today. Put the seedlings in a salad. Officially the first thing I've eaten from my garden!
Rob, they tasted amazing!? Right? I love radish seedlings!

WHAT? Nobody told me we could do that and I always threw mine away. NEVER AGAIN! Mad

landarch 8/29/2016, 3:12 pm

I think radish seedlings are offered in micro-green mixes...I know I've seen them listed in Johnny's Seed micro-green pages.

yolos 8/29/2016, 4:50 pm

landarch wrote:I think radish seedlings are offered in micro-green mixes...I know I've seen them listed in Johnny's Seed micro-green pages.

One of my favorite micro-greens is daikon radish.

landarch 8/29/2016, 7:08 pm

I've also been reading about radishes making for a good cover crop...especially long daikon varieties that can help aerate heavy soils up to 24" or so...I think this is called bio-rilling. Radishes can also deter root nematodes...and radish litter can be a good source of nitrogen for the spring garden.

**Scorpio Rising** 8/29/2016, 7:41 pm

They are planted around here late fall. In the late winter, when it thaws and you get a whiff of the dying/dead decomposing radishes, it smells like roadkill! This is acres and acres I am talking about!

http://msue.anr.msu.edu/uploads/234/78912/extension_bulletin_E2907.pdf

yolos 8/29/2016, 11:22 pm

landarch wrote:I've also been reading about radishes making for a good cover crop...especially long daikon varieties that can help aerate heavy soils up to 24" or so...I think this is called bio-rilling. Radishes can also deter root nematodes...and radish litter can be a good source of nitrogen for the spring garden.

Last fall I planted Daikon Radishes in a small part of my garden that is not 100% MM. I was trying to get the radishes to burrow down into the clay below the bed. Unfortunately, I either planted it too late in the fall or my clay under the bed was just to hard to penetrate because the radishes did not go down into the clay.

**Scorpio Rising** 8/30/2016, 8:48 pm

In our area, it is planted to break up the clay hard pan soil and amend. Actual farmland....

Blacktail Mountain melon update, harvested my one and only melon from 2 plants.....hmmm. It was dense, bowling ball sized. Very sweet but very seedy. Very. Seedy. I will try one more time but IDK.

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