How to grow Radish in pots at home (Organic Gardening)

How to grow Radish in pots at home (kitchen Gardening)

Collect your things for Radish plantation

Soil, seed, pots, fertilizer, trowel

Varieties                

Sixty days, Mino early long white, green neck

Sowing time:

It can be grow from July to September. The optimum temperature for radish plantation is 20-30°c. It is grow well at 18 °c.

Best soil for radish:

It can be grow on all types of soil but mostly it like rich sandy and moist soil.

How to grow

Radishes have shallow root system (various according to variety) from 15 to 60 cm. Take a 4 cm deep pot and plant a seed more than 2cm deep and 4 inch apart for obtaining long roots.

Location

Radish requires full sun. Keep them in south direction.

Irrigation

Radish requires mostly moist condition. Frequent irrigation is required however in winter with four days interval watered the plants.

Fertilizer

Put leaf mulch around the plant. Use the alfalfa meal organic fertilizer for radish. Spread it for getting best result.

Harvesting

Harvesting time is depending on the varieties although radish is ready from 40-45 days. However early varieties can be harvested within 25-30 days. Late harvesting is the cause of bitter taste. To ease the harvesting irrigates the radish plants.

Tips

Radish can be growing as inter-crop. Inter-crop the radish plants between beans, tomatoes Brussels sprout cabbage and tomatoes.