HOW TO GROW WATERMELON RADISH

a radish variety that is beautiful and absolutely delicious let's look at growing the watermelon radish so we are sowing our seeds in October and in a few days in about 7 days or so you will see that the plants have emerged their seedlings and this is how it looks like and within about 10 to 15 days of sowing you can transplant the seedlings so like you see here we use this hex seed starting kit and we're using some popsicle sticks or ice cream sticks to take these plants out which is pretty easy to do now I usually directly sow radish seeds but you can also see that you can transplant radish seedlings very easily so if you have critter problems or you know problems like cutworms or rodents breaking into your seedlings this is a good way to start your radish plant and we're transplanting them onto this raised bed the soil that we are using has a lot of organic matter it has a lot of peat moss as well as perlite which makes a very light mix and once you transplant these seedlings if you already have a lot of organic matter in your soil you do not need to add any fertilizer at this stage if you have soils that are deficient in minerals and nutrients just make sure you add a slow-release fertilizer at this stage or an all-purpose fertilizer now choose a location for your radish plants that sunny and since radish is a cool season crop you need to make sure that you choose a nice sunny location since the winter Sun is not that strong a lot of people grow radish and then find out that the radish plants are not growing that well and that their yellowing and not producing big bulbs but that's the reason you need to have a lot of sunlight where you plant your radish plants now about 35 days in sowing as you can see here the radish bulbs have developed or are starting to develop now but it's still not time to harvest them they will still become larger and grow to a little larger size before you can harvest them but these plants are absolutely gorgeous and at this stage at about 35 days if you don't see your plants growing very well just site dress them with an all-purpose fertilizer or a lot of organic matter 45 days since planting we are ready for our first harvest and as you can see here the bulbs have grown quite large now and the watermelon radish grows pretty quickly as you can see here within about 35 days you were able to harvest this radish from a raised bed and it's absolutely gorgeous if you look at the fruit or the radish bulb it's pretty good looking it's quite decent in size not very small at all that's a pretty good-looking radish right there and here's one more gorgeous looking radish bulb little helpers always very welcome in the garden they seem to enjoy gardening a lot and this is how our harvest looks like after its cleaned up beautiful looking radish and let's cut open this radish to show you how beautiful this radish is the watermelon radish goes by this name because it actually looks like a watermelon from the inside nice pink color over the white exterior makes this of the best-looking radishes and this is a pungent radish variety it's not as pungent as the long white variety but it's still quite pungent but it's great to eat raw I loved eating this radish raw you can also cook it you can put it in your stews you can stir-fry them with other vegetables there are a lot of ways you can eat radish I just love eating this radish raw because of its excellent flavor and if you're adding it to salads it makes your salads look very beautiful because of its striking pink color that you see here and that's why it gets its name, the watermelon radish and once you remove the radish you can see that even the outer peel can be removed very easily so you can get rid of it if you don't like it