The Blooming of the Bolting Radish Plant

I wanted to provide a quick update regarding my radish plants growing on my balcony. I decided to clear the pot of all the radish plants except for the one that was bolting. I wanted to give my green onion plants more space to grow because as of right now I could make better use of the green onions in my food and giving them space in the pot should help encourage their growth. Since plucking out all of the radishes except for the bolting one, that radish plant has started blooming. The radish plant has a nice, small, pink flower. To be more specific each flower is comprised of four pedals that go from a white in the center to pink while creating a nice gradient. Here's a picture of the flower stalk:

German Giant Radish Flowers

I noticed that the plant is producing a lot of flowers. Almost from ever leaf at the stem there appears to be a cluster of flowers forming going up the stalk. That can be seen in the photo above as well. I'm hoping that I might get some seeds from this plant. With all these flowers there must be a fairly good chance?

Currently I'm looking for some other crops I can attempt to grow on my balcony or windowsill. I'm considering some herbs such as basil and mint. We shall see!

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Windowsill Radishes - Day 31 - Death of the Cotyledons

The radishes have been growing for 31 days at this point from the day I plopped the seeds into the dirt. As of day 31, I've noticed that the cotyledons, or embryonic leaves, for both plants have finally started to yellow and die. I was curious how long these would last. They've grown very large throughout the life of the plants thus far too. The radish bulbs do seem to be plumping up nicely too. I'm excited to see what they look like on the day I decide to pluck them from the dirt. I'm really curious to see if there's much more to them than meets the eyes (above the dirt in this case). Day 31 Side View Day 31 Top View Radish Close-up Good-bye Cotyledons

Radish Season is Over - I think...

Much like shell art is over in Portlandia, I think it's safe to say that radish season is over in my neck of the woods. The weather has just warmed up too significantly as of late. If you saw my post from yesterday, I ended up harvesting some of those radishes as they didn't appear to be growing any more. I will post something about that in a few days or so. Upon sampling, they were much too spicy to my taste. I think the window of growth opportunity is over. I probably should have started in early spring or late winter but this was more of a fun experiment stemming from the shelter in place orders. Anyhow, I'll probably be plucking most of my radish plants in the coming days except for a few that are or might be bolting. They'll serve to make a nice dish of radish greens. Some strange looking radishes

Windowsill Radishes - Day 35 - The Radish (singular) Harvest

So day 35 rolled around and I was still committed to harvesting a radish - curious to see how it's grown. I decided to pull the radish that was already more exposed above the soil first. I had no idea how much of the radish was actually below the soil. Have a scroll through the images below to see the harvest. I suppose I should really be putting harvest in quotations. "Harvest." But after plucking the radish from the dirt, my first observation was, "wow, this radish is pretty small." But upon closer inspection and after cleaning off the dirt and stray roots, I got a sense that the radish was plumping up below the dirt. I think I probably should have let it grow longer but hey, my curiosity got the better of me and plus the seed packet said matures in 29 days. I'll be writing up another post to talk about the taste of the radish and the radish greens. But after plucking the radish, I have committed to leaving the other radish growing for at least another fiv...

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