Radish Royal Purple

Plump and round as a globe combining a sweet mild flavour and firm flesh – a cruncher’s delight! Stunningly beautiful, elegantly round and resistant to pests and disease. A great choice for a beginner and grows rapidly so you could be harvesting your first crop within 30 days.

How to Grow Radish from Seed

Radish is an easy to grow and quick to mature salad crop. Summer radishes are small, walnut-sized, round or cylindrical in shape and are eaten raw in salads. Winter radishes a larger and more turnip like. Like summer radish they can be eaten raw in salads or they can be cooked like a Turnip or Swede. Radish seedling leaves can also be used as cut and come again salad.

Sow fortnightly from February to September for a constant supply of fresh radish. Sow radish seeds directly into shallow drills, around 1 inch deep, or under cloches. Germination normally takes 5 to 7 days. Thin out the seedlings as soon as possible, to give more space for maturing roots to swell, you can use the thinnings in salads.

Radishes prefer moist fertile soil, with regular watering in dry periods to promote rapid root growth.