My Other Radish Plants

I thought for today I'd leave the windowsill radish on the windowsill for this post. For the past few days it has been pretty dull. It seems the radish root isn't getting much larger so I probably won't post about it until harvest time comes around. But for today I wanted to show some pictures of my other radish plants. These ones I have growing on my balcony. The balcony overall gets less direct sunlight and less sunlight overall than the windowsill. These plants took much longer to grow because of that. However, they have attained sizes much larger now but that may be due to the fact they are in a largish pot. They originally were planted between some green onion that I planted. These green onions were the bottoms of grocery store green onion. Here's an image when the radishes started sprouting. This was a little over a month ago.

The humble beginnings

As of today, I'm still waiting for the green onion to grow large enough to actually be able to eat but that's another story... But fast forward to now and check out how the radish plants have grown. some of the green onions are peeking out between the radishes too. 

Is this even the same pot?

Wow, that was some explosive growth! The leaves are huge on these radishes! (That means more greens to eat too!) Unfortunately the radishes themselves aren't too big. There is one large radish as well as another radish that is bolting. First I'll show you the prize radish of the bunch:

My prized but oblong radish 

I've started to notice my radishes are ending up very long. I wonder if it has anything to do with the soil? Maybe it's too soft? I'm not sure. I'll do some reading up on that later. I'm sure it has something to do with the soil or perhaps the pot is too crowded. Space is at a premium unfortunately in my case. But I did put my finger next to the radish for some scale. I'm hoping this radish will plump up some and become more round. There are a few other radishes developing nicely as well as others that clearly appear that they won't develop bulbs. Now for the radish plant that is bolting:

Reaching for the sky!

It might be a little hard to see which radish is bolting but it's in the middle. At the top there is a cluster of flowers developing. I'm going to go ahead and let the plant flower. I don't know if the flowers will actually get pollinated or not though. We shall see. Maybe I'll get some radish seeds.

Well, there's an update on my balcony radishes. I thought this would be an interesting change from the windowsill radishes. I'll post another update on their progress in the near future!