One day away from day 30. I was curious so I did some online browsing for the type of radishes I am growing, which in this case are German giants. According to the website it says you can harvest them when as small as marbles or as large as a baseball while remaining mild, sweet, and crispy. I suppose that is encouraging as I do want to grow these a bit longer to see if they'll grow larger in size. I was initially worried that leaving them in the dirt too long would cause them to become woody but from what I read online (who knows if it's accurate) they shouldn't become woody. Encouraging nonetheless. I also wonder how large the root is under the dirt versus what I can see above ground.
I'm sure many of you already know this but for those of you that don't, you can take the bottom of the green onions that you buy from the grocery stores and grow more green onion! Green onion is comprised of two basic parts - the stalk or the green portion and the bulb. The bulb is usually white and has some roots growing from the bottom. In order to grow your own green onion from this you don't even need to save the entire white portion. I recommend leaving at least an inch though. once you cut that off, you can use the remaining green onion for consumption. With that portion of the bulb that you saved give it a rinse and remove any peeling, dying skin, and dead roots. This will help prevent rot. There are a few ways you can grow your green onion. The easiest way is to put them in some water. Note that you do not want to submerge the bulb. You only want the bottom root portion to be exposed to water. Letting the entire bulb sit in water will encourage (not what we want in
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