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Old 04-07-2017, 12:38 PM posted to rec.gardens.edible
George Shirley[_3_] George Shirley[_3_] is offline
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Default Radishes have flowers?

On 7/3/2017 10:51 PM, Muggles wrote:
On 7/3/2017 9:52 PM, T wrote:
On 07/02/2017 07:22 PM, George Shirley wrote:
On 7/2/2017 8:19 PM, T wrote:
On 07/02/2017 06:18 PM, Gary Woods wrote:
On Sun, 2 Jul 2017 12:45:05 -0700, T wrote:

Several on my radishes have developed 12 to 18"
stocks with white flowers on the ends.

They are "Bolting," i.e. going to seed, and the roots will have turned
very hot and tough. The good news is that the immature green seed
pods are delicious stir-fried. There are actually varieties bred for
this use.

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So, pull them out?
Yup!


I just did. None of them had a radish under them.

So, just some do that and other develop fat roots?

Well, it makes room. It is crowed in there.


I think every radish I ever planted bolted when the weather got warm.

Same here. We had a small garden in Saudi Arabia and we put a black
screen type of cloth over our small garden inside a wall garden. We did
well with that garden, made of desert sand and lots of cow manure and
compost but it was very small. Temps then were often above 100F but the
shade protected the garden.

I may have to put shade cloth over the raised beds as our temps are
getting higher now.

George