yearcgh... i always feel like the grinch... you're probably way early on the radishes. it's worth a shot, since you got 'em... but me, i direct sow radishes (they don't like to be transplanted, tho i've done it many times when i thin a bed)... they DO NOT LIKE hot weather (not at all!)... and they can't stand inconsistent watering (dry then wet)... they have in central florida a pretty wide window for planting, roughly late october until the beginning of may...

they need very little space... a square foot of garden area will provide you more than you can eat, and you can keep it in continuous production by staggering your plantings (i keep a package of radishes next to my pruners in the winter, and every time i harvest, i rough in a couple more seeds)...

but it's probably too early now for radishes... esp in 10. wait until you have consistently cool mornings and the typhoon season has passed.

they grow GREAT in window boxes. just (as i always say) keep you potting mix very light with lots of perlite or pine fines.

Hi I.M.A.!

Well, shoot! I guess I have the gardening equivalent to a kid who can't wait for Santa on Christmas Eve with my seed plantings!

I trust your info as you are enormously more experienced than I am at this and I've never tried to grow radishes before and you have. That's what I get for reading the seed packet and not asking out here first before starting the seeds.

Since they are already about a half inch tall, I'll transplant and see what happens...survival of the fittest! If they die (which they probably will...), I'll just try again once it gets colder as you suggest and I'll try the direct sow as well.

I'm glad to know that the window-box route is good for radishes. My yard is so small that the only way I can get variety is with container planting.

I also started beans and peas and another tomato plant from seed. The beans and peas have busted thru the soil already as well.

And, as usual, my stupid pepper seeds are just lying there doing nothing. I guess I'll keep buying peppers for now...

Thanks for the advice! :)

Thanks for the response.

Hi SPF,

I agree with Michael, you're a tad too early, and these things are very easy to grow in a window box. If you'd like to try icicle I only have about 10,000 seeds, drop me a line and I'll mail you a few hundred. They're one of the few things I do keep in the frig as these seeds will last forever if kept chilled.

Tom

Oh wow! I never knew to put the seeds in the frig? Can you do this for all seeds or is it mostly a radish thing?

I would love to try the Icicle radish if you are able to part with a few seeds. I recall you posting how tasty it was last year. I don't need hundreds of seeds (tiny yard...), just a few would be fine. Thanks a bunch for the offer! Really appreciate it! :)

Some folks put all their seeds in the frig, I don't do it with anything but the radish seed (frig) and bean seed (freezer), but that's my own quirk, I just worry about the humidity transfer to the seeds when taking them in and out of the frig...the rest I keep in individual ziplocs in a closet.

Drop me an email and I'll mail you some seeds, I'm experimenting quite a bit with sweet pepper seeds this year so look at my Trade List to see if you want me to send you some other seeds, doesn't make since just to mail the radish seeds alone.

Tom

Thanks, Tom! I just sent you an email via GW. :)