You know you have a problem when your state has a freeze warning one week and a heat advisory the next.

I'll check them tomorrow, thanks! I think they're supposed to be kindof big? And I didn't thin them out. So this crop may be a dud, it sounds like lol. Oh well, I'll learn :)

Radish seeds are big enough to be planted one...by...one if you can discipline yourself to do it, and so save yourself the trouble of thinning. Or you can stir a package of seed into a qt of sand and plant that way.

For the first year in many, I didn't get decent spring radishes. It was too cool and dry then too wet, then too hot. Just a BAD year for radishes. I'll plant again in the fall. Both the 30 day French Breakfast and the longer Chinese Red Meat.

Carol, Isn't the weather insane this year? I hope this is not a long-term trend. It's like being on a roller coaster, or a see-saw.

My sugar snap peas are just burning up in the heat.

Kelly, Not thinning radishes early enough is a common error. I thin them just a couple of days after they emerge. The failure of radishes to "radish up" is one of the most common cool-season issues you see people asking about.

Depending on how closely you planted, you may get radishes. It just depends on if the original spacing was right for them without thinning, or on whether thinning would have been necessary because they were so close to one another.

One of my favorite radish tricks is to alternate carrot seeds and radishes in a checkerboard pattern. Since my soil tends to crust over and it can be hard for tiny carrot seeds to break through that crust, I let the quick-sprouting radish seeds break the soil crust for the carrot seeds which then emerge a few days later. They may look a little crowded as they start growing, but then you harvest the radishes pretty quickly and the carrots have plenty of space to themselves.

Dawn

I must have planted mine at just the right time because I have had plenty. I have been harvesting a couple of dozen every few days to make room to put in peppers. A few are starting to show their age, so it is just about over with the cherry bells. I try to be careful when I plant but I always plant too close. I don't thin and it doesn't seem to matter much for me. Sometimes they are growing very close together and occasionally there is a small one, but it takes too much time to thin. LOL

Kelly, Just for the record, I have never had radishes mature as early as the package says they will. If I add a week then I am usually closer.

i am doing radish for the very first time. i have clumps of leaves. does this mean i didnt thin them out? and can i thin now or is it to late. the leaves are not as big as the leaves in the store bought radish.

Kerry, When did you plant? Are you in Oklahoma? Normally, the OSU-recommended time to plant radishes is March through mid-April, with gardeners in southeastern OK choosing the earlier planting dates and gardeners in northwestern OK choosing the latest planting dates. Those of us in between those two regions choose planting dates somewhere in the middle of that range. Radishes planted in March in my part of OK (southcentral, close to I-35 corridor and so far south I'm almost in Texas) in March or April are ready for harvest in April and May. Radishes grow and produce well (and taste good) in the cool season. They do not taste good when grown in hot weather. You also can plant radishes from mid-August (in northwestern OK) through mid-October (in southeastern OK) for a fall or winter harvest depending on what variety you grow and when you plant them.

When you say you have clumps of leaves, do you mean you have a solid mass of leaves with no open space in between the little groups of leaves? (Each radish would have a little group of leaves growing out of the top of it.) If you are in a hot-summer area and didn't thin them shortly after the seeds sprouted (within a week of them sprouting for the smaller ones and maybe within 2 weeks for the winter radishes that produce very large radishes), then it is too late. If you are in some other state with cooler weather, it might not be too late to thin but I think you'd have be really far north in order for there to be any chance that radishes could be thinned at this point in the summer and still produce a good harvest.

If, by chance, you are growing rat-tail radishes, that's a different situation since they are grown for their edible seedpods. I thin mine just whenever and however, and usually thin them to grow 6-12" apart because they produce huge topgrowth that can really spread out above ground. They produce all summer since you're growing them for the edible seedpods and not the underground storage root.

thanks ever so for this. yes, i planted s little too late and did NOT thin them out. ilm a first time radish grower. i will plant more in the early fall. its hot here on the east coast.

Hi I've never grown radish before I put the seeds into a pot in my house and now they are really leggy will they still.grow OK I'm hopeless

Maybe or maybe not. It depends on how much light they get and on whether or not you thinned them out to the proper spacing.

Hi yes there thinned out 2 inches apart do you think I should start again thank you very much

If you're here in OK, you have plenty of time to grow a new crop. Radishes are cool-season crops so don't perform well here in hot weather. Luckily, our warm season is winding down and the cool season is approaching. The OSU-recommended time to plant radishes in OK for a fall harvest is August 15 - October 10. You can sow a dozen or two dozen radish seeds every week from now through early October and have a long harvest season. If you're in a different climate than ours, I cannot answer your question about radishes without knowing what your climate is like.

If you are in OK, or in any of the adjacent states, here's the OSU Fall Garden Guide with recommended planting dates:

OSU Fall Gardening