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When I was a kid, radishes used to be hot.
I heard that supermarkets sold horrible mild ones because people don't like them hot, so I planted my own. Mine aren't hot! Is there a specific variety that are hot? I planted 'Saxa' because it said on the packet 'peppery taste'. Thanks Bob |
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Bob Smith wrote in message ... When I was a kid, radishes used to be hot. I heard that supermarkets sold horrible mild ones because people don't like them hot, so I planted my own. Mine aren't hot! Is there a specific variety that are hot? I planted 'Saxa' because it said on the packet 'peppery taste'. Thanks Bob Check the pH of your soil, acid soils( 6.0 )grow hotter stuff. Secondly do not fertilize while they are growing just use a small amount when preparing the bed. Mine, in the former colony of VA, have finally cooled down but it took me years to get the dirt right. I plant the old timey kind that are red without any white around the top. |
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redclay wrote:
Bob Smith wrote in message ... When I was a kid, radishes used to be hot. I heard that supermarkets sold horrible mild ones because people don't like them hot, so I planted my own. Mine aren't hot! Is there a specific variety that are hot? I planted 'Saxa' because it said on the packet 'peppery taste'. Thanks Bob French Breakfast used to be my favourite... les Check the pH of your soil, acid soils( 6.0 )grow hotter stuff. Secondly do not fertilize while they are growing just use a small amount when preparing the bed. Mine, in the former colony of VA, have finally cooled down but it took me years to get the dirt right. I plant the old timey kind that are red without any white around the top. -- http://www.stuffmongers.com "Homo sapiens, the first truly free species, is about to decommission natural selection, the force that made us.... Soon we must look deep within ourselves and decide what we wish to become." Edward O. Wilson Consilience, The Unity of Knowledge Remove frontal lobes to reply from a NG |
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Try to find an oriental radish called dikon. They are white and look like
icicle radishes, except you plant them in June and harvest in 45 days, and they are quite large (sometimes more than a kilo each). They are a little hotter than the normal radish, but not much, and you can find a lot of interesting recipes on the internet. I enjoy just cutting them into chunks and eating then raw. Dwayne "Les &/or Claire" wrote in message ... redclay wrote: Bob Smith wrote in message ... When I was a kid, radishes used to be hot. I heard that supermarkets sold horrible mild ones because people don't like them hot, so I planted my own. Mine aren't hot! Is there a specific variety that are hot? I planted 'Saxa' because it said on the packet 'peppery taste'. Thanks Bob French Breakfast used to be my favourite... les Check the pH of your soil, acid soils( 6.0 )grow hotter stuff. Secondly do not fertilize while they are growing just use a small amount when preparing the bed. Mine, in the former colony of VA, have finally cooled down but it took me years to get the dirt right. I plant the old timey kind that are red without any white around the top. -- http://www.stuffmongers.com "Homo sapiens, the first truly free species, is about to decommission natural selection, the force that made us.... Soon we must look deep within ourselves and decide what we wish to become." Edward O. Wilson Consilience, The Unity of Knowledge Remove frontal lobes to reply from a NG |
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"redclay" wrote in message ...
Bob Smith wrote in message ... When I was a kid, radishes used to be hot. I heard that supermarkets sold horrible mild ones because people don't like them hot, so I planted my own. Mine aren't hot! Is there a specific variety that are hot? I planted 'Saxa' because it said on the packet 'peppery taste'. Thanks Bob Check the pH of your soil, acid soils( 6.0 )grow hotter stuff. Secondly do not fertilize while they are growing just use a small amount when preparing the bed. Mine, in the former colony of VA, have finally cooled down but it took me years to get the dirt right. I plant the old timey kind that are red without any white around the top. Agreed: though I like chillies, I prefer my radishes cool, and have found that if you grow them fast -- more a matter of water than of nutrition, as Red implies -- they're cooler than if you grow them slow. I'm sure this is as true in western Britain as it is in the grand old Commonwealth of Virginia. The catch would be that if you let them grow for too long, they'll get tough and stringy. Maybe sun's a factor, too: the more light, the hotter the radish, just like chillies. I suspect, too, that they get hotter if allowed to protrude above soil level: a longer type would do this more happily than a round one. 'Ware slugs! As somebody said downthread, it's worth trying some of the oriental varieties -- some of which will also give a supply in the winter, and let you make brain-blasting Korean-style pickles (recipes in Madhur Jaffrey's terrific _Eastern Vegetarian Cooking_ or, no doubt, on the Internet). Mike. |
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"redclay" wrote in message ...
Bob Smith wrote in message ... When I was a kid, radishes used to be hot. I heard that supermarkets sold horrible mild ones because people don't like them hot, so I planted my own. Mine aren't hot! Is there a specific variety that are hot? I planted 'Saxa' because it said on the packet 'peppery taste'. Thanks Bob Check the pH of your soil, acid soils( 6.0 )grow hotter stuff. Secondly do not fertilize while they are growing just use a small amount when preparing the bed. Mine, in the former colony of VA, have finally cooled down but it took me years to get the dirt right. I plant the old timey kind that are red without any white around the top. Agreed: though I like chillies, I prefer my radishes cool, and have found that if you grow them fast -- more a matter of water than of nutrition, as Red implies -- they're cooler than if you grow them slow. I'm sure this is as true in western Britain as it is in the grand old Commonwealth of Virginia. The catch would be that if you let them grow for too long, they'll get tough and stringy. Maybe sun's a factor, too: the more light, the hotter the radish, just like chillies. I suspect, too, that they get hotter if allowed to protrude above soil level: a longer type would do this more happily than a round one. 'Ware slugs! As somebody said downthread, it's worth trying some of the oriental varieties -- some of which will also give a supply in the winter, and let you make brain-blasting Korean-style pickles (recipes in Madhur Jaffrey's terrific _Eastern Vegetarian Cooking_ or, no doubt, on the Internet). Mike. |
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"Bob Smith" wrote in message ... When I was a kid, radishes used to be hot. I heard that supermarkets sold horrible mild ones because people don't like them hot, so I planted my own. I am currently growing some radishes - I haven't tried one yest so I don't know if they're hot or not. However, I recently bought some radishes from Tesco and found them to be delicious, hot and peppery. -=# Amos E Wolfe #=- |
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"redclay" wrote in message ...
Bob Smith wrote in message ... When I was a kid, radishes used to be hot. I heard that supermarkets sold horrible mild ones because people don't like them hot, so I planted my own. Mine aren't hot! Is there a specific variety that are hot? I planted 'Saxa' because it said on the packet 'peppery taste'. Thanks Bob Check the pH of your soil, acid soils( 6.0 )grow hotter stuff. Secondly do not fertilize while they are growing just use a small amount when preparing the bed. Mine, in the former colony of VA, have finally cooled down but it took me years to get the dirt right. I plant the old timey kind that are red without any white around the top. Agreed: though I like chillies, I prefer my radishes cool, and have found that if you grow them fast -- more a matter of water than of nutrition, as Red implies -- they're cooler than if you grow them slow. I'm sure this is as true in western Britain as it is in the grand old Commonwealth of Virginia. The catch would be that if you let them grow for too long, they'll get tough and stringy. Maybe sun's a factor, too: the more light, the hotter the radish, just like chillies. I suspect, too, that they get hotter if allowed to protrude above soil level: a longer type would do this more happily than a round one. 'Ware slugs! As somebody said downthread, it's worth trying some of the oriental varieties -- some of which will also give a supply in the winter, and let you make brain-blasting Korean-style pickles (recipes in Madhur Jaffrey's terrific _Eastern Vegetarian Cooking_ or, no doubt, on the Internet). Mike. |
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"Bob Smith" wrote in message ... When I was a kid, radishes used to be hot. I heard that supermarkets sold horrible mild ones because people don't like them hot, so I planted my own. I am currently growing some radishes - I haven't tried one yest so I don't know if they're hot or not. However, I recently bought some radishes from Tesco and found them to be delicious, hot and peppery. -=# Amos E Wolfe #=- |
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"redclay" wrote in message ...
Bob Smith wrote in message ... When I was a kid, radishes used to be hot. I heard that supermarkets sold horrible mild ones because people don't like them hot, so I planted my own. Mine aren't hot! Is there a specific variety that are hot? I planted 'Saxa' because it said on the packet 'peppery taste'. Thanks Bob Check the pH of your soil, acid soils( 6.0 )grow hotter stuff. Secondly do not fertilize while they are growing just use a small amount when preparing the bed. Mine, in the former colony of VA, have finally cooled down but it took me years to get the dirt right. I plant the old timey kind that are red without any white around the top. Agreed: though I like chillies, I prefer my radishes cool, and have found that if you grow them fast -- more a matter of water than of nutrition, as Red implies -- they're cooler than if you grow them slow. I'm sure this is as true in western Britain as it is in the grand old Commonwealth of Virginia. The catch would be that if you let them grow for too long, they'll get tough and stringy. Maybe sun's a factor, too: the more light, the hotter the radish, just like chillies. I suspect, too, that they get hotter if allowed to protrude above soil level: a longer type would do this more happily than a round one. 'Ware slugs! As somebody said downthread, it's worth trying some of the oriental varieties -- some of which will also give a supply in the winter, and let you make brain-blasting Korean-style pickles (recipes in Madhur Jaffrey's terrific _Eastern Vegetarian Cooking_ or, no doubt, on the Internet). Mike. |
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"Bob Smith" wrote in message ... When I was a kid, radishes used to be hot. I heard that supermarkets sold horrible mild ones because people don't like them hot, so I planted my own. I am currently growing some radishes - I haven't tried one yest so I don't know if they're hot or not. However, I recently bought some radishes from Tesco and found them to be delicious, hot and peppery. -=# Amos E Wolfe #=- |
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"redclay" wrote in message ...
Bob Smith wrote in message ... When I was a kid, radishes used to be hot. I heard that supermarkets sold horrible mild ones because people don't like them hot, so I planted my own. Mine aren't hot! Is there a specific variety that are hot? I planted 'Saxa' because it said on the packet 'peppery taste'. Thanks Bob Check the pH of your soil, acid soils( 6.0 )grow hotter stuff. Secondly do not fertilize while they are growing just use a small amount when preparing the bed. Mine, in the former colony of VA, have finally cooled down but it took me years to get the dirt right. I plant the old timey kind that are red without any white around the top. Agreed: though I like chillies, I prefer my radishes cool, and have found that if you grow them fast -- more a matter of water than of nutrition, as Red implies -- they're cooler than if you grow them slow. I'm sure this is as true in western Britain as it is in the grand old Commonwealth of Virginia. The catch would be that if you let them grow for too long, they'll get tough and stringy. Maybe sun's a factor, too: the more light, the hotter the radish, just like chillies. I suspect, too, that they get hotter if allowed to protrude above soil level: a longer type would do this more happily than a round one. 'Ware slugs! As somebody said downthread, it's worth trying some of the oriental varieties -- some of which will also give a supply in the winter, and let you make brain-blasting Korean-style pickles (recipes in Madhur Jaffrey's terrific _Eastern Vegetarian Cooking_ or, no doubt, on the Internet). Mike. |
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"Bob Smith" wrote in message ... When I was a kid, radishes used to be hot. I heard that supermarkets sold horrible mild ones because people don't like them hot, so I planted my own. I am currently growing some radishes - I haven't tried one yest so I don't know if they're hot or not. However, I recently bought some radishes from Tesco and found them to be delicious, hot and peppery. -=# Amos E Wolfe #=- |
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"redclay" wrote in message ...
Bob Smith wrote in message ... When I was a kid, radishes used to be hot. I heard that supermarkets sold horrible mild ones because people don't like them hot, so I planted my own. Mine aren't hot! Is there a specific variety that are hot? I planted 'Saxa' because it said on the packet 'peppery taste'. Thanks Bob Check the pH of your soil, acid soils( 6.0 )grow hotter stuff. Secondly do not fertilize while they are growing just use a small amount when preparing the bed. Mine, in the former colony of VA, have finally cooled down but it took me years to get the dirt right. I plant the old timey kind that are red without any white around the top. Agreed: though I like chillies, I prefer my radishes cool, and have found that if you grow them fast -- more a matter of water than of nutrition, as Red implies -- they're cooler than if you grow them slow. I'm sure this is as true in western Britain as it is in the grand old Commonwealth of Virginia. The catch would be that if you let them grow for too long, they'll get tough and stringy. Maybe sun's a factor, too: the more light, the hotter the radish, just like chillies. I suspect, too, that they get hotter if allowed to protrude above soil level: a longer type would do this more happily than a round one. 'Ware slugs! As somebody said downthread, it's worth trying some of the oriental varieties -- some of which will also give a supply in the winter, and let you make brain-blasting Korean-style pickles (recipes in Madhur Jaffrey's terrific _Eastern Vegetarian Cooking_ or, no doubt, on the Internet). Mike. |
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"Bob Smith" wrote in message ... When I was a kid, radishes used to be hot. I heard that supermarkets sold horrible mild ones because people don't like them hot, so I planted my own. I am currently growing some radishes - I haven't tried one yest so I don't know if they're hot or not. However, I recently bought some radishes from Tesco and found them to be delicious, hot and peppery. -=# Amos E Wolfe #=- |
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