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"shazzbat" wrote:

"William L. Rose" wrote in message
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My radishes don't plump. I get long red roots above ground but they are
only about an eighth of an inch in diameter. The radished germinate very
quickly. They have large leaves but they don't have any flesh. The
garden is fifteen years old. It is basically clay but compost is dug
into it every year. There are worms in the soil. What do I have to do to
get these little suckers to plump up?

Have you put them in too thickly? if so, thin them to an inch apart. And
what is the moisture like, they like moist soil.

Steve

The same thing happened to me one year...
I think that, not only did I leave them too dense, I also did not plant
them deep enough.

I left them in the ground since they did so badly, and I got a Hyooge
crop of seeds the second year! They weathered over as a bi-annual.
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