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Life of the Radish

I am a little behind on this. Bear with me!

radish1 

The seeds were planted on The 7th of December, 20 days ago from this post.

they germinated within the week of planting.

The Radishes are under a daylight florescent bulb on a shop light spot light.

I used general miracle grow plant mix.

This is growing in a galvanized steel planter approx 14"x4" (i think) and it has about 3 or more inches of soil.  

I have a 19-30 days listed as harvest time but being day 20 I doubt it will meet that. I think it might be the cold Temps in the basement sometimes dropping into the low 50's.

 

This post will be updated.  

 

First picture 

radish1 

 

Todays picture. (of same radish)

radish#2 

 

 

Yet another harvest

These things are coming faster than I can cook with them.

onions 

They make good seasoning for soups and anything I throw into the oven. Good for garnish and wonderful for salads. Right now there is the bundle pictured that will be for dinner tonight an my salad for lunch and now I have not had to buy onions in weeks and probably will not have to buy them for the rest of the winter.

Then I will keep them going for greens until I get my first batch of scallions in the spring (When i get to buying bulbs for planting outdoors)  

This was a total savings!

And yes those are twist ties from the toys. I hate those things when I have to take them off the toys but they sure come in handy when you save them. 

My eyes have been opened!

After getting onto the gardening forums all over the net someone has pointed out something interesting that has given me a whole new outlook on winter gardening.

Instead of indoor winter gardening someone said to winter sow my seeds OUTDOORS?!!

I was intrigued..

Check out Wintersown.org 

 

This is a great instructional read and i have to give lots of credit for doing this on a short budget and recycling!  This might be added to my activities list for january after the holiday mess is over.

But thank you for the helpful information!

The tip came from one of the helpful members on "idigmygarden.com"