Before the pods form the flowers will be beneficial for passing pollinators. What is more, if you can bear not to eat them all, you can leave a few radish seed pods to fully ripen and dry out. By selecting the seeds from a few of the best plants, you can have a free supply to plant next year and by doing this year after year, you will rear radishes perfectly suited to your garden.
Radishes are great to grow for gardeners old and new. The easy to handle seeds of radishes are a joy to plant, germination rates are rarely bad and the plants grow really quickly. If you can bear not to eat them all, you can leave a few radish seed pods to fully ripen and dry out.
By selecting the seeds from a few of the best plants, you can have a free supply to plant next year and by doing this year after year, you will rear radishes perfectly suited to your garden. Do you let some radishes go to seed? What do you do with the seed pods? Let us know your ideas for eating this more unusual radish edible in the comments below.
Elizabeth Waddington is a writer and green living consultant living in Scotland. Permaculture and sustainability are at the heart of everything she does, from designing gardens and farms around the world, to inspiring and facilitating positive change for small companies and individuals.
Just because your radish plants started flowering doesn't mean they're done for the season. Harvest the green seed pods yes, they're edible! Radish seed pickles are uniquely delicious with a peppery crunch. Every season, I let a few of my radish plants flower and seed. Some I leave to collect seed for next season , and some I simply forget about in the shadow of other plants. At this stage, most people consider the plants done for the season.
The radishes themselves have grown too woody or fibrous to eat, and the leaves have withered or become damaged by aphids and other pests. Far from it. Those pointy green seed pods are actually a last hurrah from the radish plant, a harvest well worth the wait because the pods are so uniquely delicious. Radish seeds form inside thin, elongated pods on tall, upright stems that reach 4 to 5 feet. Each radish pod is 1 to 2 inches in length with a narrow cylindrical shape that tapers to a point.
Radishes sown from spring to summer will flower from mid-summer to fall. In mild winter climates, radishes can be sown in fall for an early spring harvest—after which the plants will bolt and produce seed pods in late spring. By collecting and eating the seed pods, you can stretch the harvest period for radishes much longer than usual. Think of it as no-waste gardening! Which is one of my favorite lazy gardening strategies for getting more food out of my garden without planting more plants.
The radish pods will bulge a bit kind of like pea pods and grow fleshier, which makes for better eating. They are left in the ground over winter and harvested in the spring. Although black radishes look tough, their skin is actually quite tender.
Watch out for the white flesh, though—it is truly spicy. Radishes that don't form bulbs don't do much good for the gardener who wants radish slices for their salad. The most frequent cause of radishes growing only greens is hot weather. Once the weather warms up, the radish plant bolts and tries to set seed. The lack of development is caused by planting too thickly and not thinning about 1 to 2 inches between plants. If the plants are so crowded in the bed that they are rubbing against each other, they will sense there isn't enough room to plump up, so they will go to seed.
An absence of sunlight is another cause of underdevelopment in radishes. Radishes can handle a little shade, especially if the temperatures are creeping up, but they need several hours of direct sun to fully develop. You might have better luck growing one of the long, slender radishes, like 'white icicle.
They can take a few days longer to mature, but you don't need as many. Of course, if you want to avoid this problem altogether, you can simply grow edible podded radishes, which are radishes grown for their crunchy, tangy seed pods, like ' rat tail.
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