A step by step guide to growing crunchy peppery radishes in your garden or in a container.
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Prep Time 15 minutesmins
Cook Time 0 minutesmins
Total Time 15 minutesmins
Equipment
Trowel
cane or long stick
Watering can
Ingredients
10litresmultipurpose compost If growing in a container
1packetRadish seeds summer grwoing varieties
Instructions
Plant the seeds in a place that gets sun most of the day. The soil should be fertile and moisture-retaining, if you have sandy soil, then enrich it with garden compost or well-rotted farmyard manure.
Lay a cane or a long stick to mark a straight line for sowing the seeds. Use a trowel, an old spoon or your fingers to create a groove that is 1 cm deep.
Use a watering can to soak the row where you plan to sow the seeds.
Shake a few seeds from the packet onto the palm of your hand, then sow them 2.5 cm apart along the length of the row.
Use your trowel to cover the radish seeds with soil and mark the end of the row with a marker to show what you have planted in that row.
The radishes should start to grow fairly quickly. If some seeds have grown too close together, thin them out so there is one seedling every 2.5 cm.
Water frequently especially if there has been no rain.
Notes
To grow in a container, fill the container with multipurpose compost, water well, scatter over the seeds and then cover with a thin layer of compost.