Radishes??What is going on with them?

Question

I started growing radishes indoors, and them put them outside, still in the black container thing. IT seemed like they were going to die, since the stem coming out of the ground seemed wilted and dead, but the leaves and stuff continued to grow. I then started and new group of radishes, that bushed out like i thought they should. I planted all of them in my garden, but now i don't know what to do. The original plants have grown very long and skinny and are flowering at the end. The others i can see the radish popping out of the ground. Do i pick the second group, and whats happening to the first. Will it still produce a radish?? I'm very confused

Answer 1

The black container will stifle the roots & not break down.

Forget the first group, & be sure to remove the containers.

Answer 2

get rid of the first crop as they have gone to seed, pick the second crop as you need them but before they go to seed as well. remember to sow seeds every 10 days so you get radish all the time.

Answer 3

First of all, radish seeds should be planted directly in the garden, not in containers. Many root crops do not like to be transplanted.  Has it been really warm where you are?  Radishes are considered a "cool season" crop. Meaning they do best in the early spring or later in the growing season after the temps have cooled down.  What has happened is they have "bolted' or grown tops and no root to speak of. When they do this, the root part is not edible as it is to tough.  If you see radishes on your second planting, I would harvest them.

Answer 4

Radishes need not be started indoors they only take 30 days till harvest from planting.If they go to flowering then the radishes will be no good they'll be pithy and stringy.Just start over outside and pull them at thirty days or before flowering

Answer 5

Spring radish season ended the beginning of June.  After the season is over the radishes go to seed by sending up flower stalks.  Same goes with lettuce except lettuce lasts a little longer.  Radishes are a cold weather crop and should only be planted outside when temps are constantly start to approach 50 during the day.  Never transplant them. I cover the ground with cardboard after planting for a few days to help the ground not to freeze.  After they come up light/moderate frost usually will not hurt radisnes but you can use cardboard or newspaper at night on HARD freeze nights to protect the plants if needed.  Radishes love cold weather and then will be harvested in may/early June.  They then go to seed after June when the temps get higher.  You can then replant Radishes the middle of August to beginning of Sept for the fall crop harvest in October. All this is in Zone 5.