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

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...

The Capsule Garden

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