winter and summer radishes

[pigeonseed]

Since living here I just can't grow salad radishes at all. They just grow stalks not round radishes. I wondered if it's to do with the sea breeze drying out the top layer of soil (though in London the soil was very fine and dry).

And yet I have lots of success with winter radishes in winter.

I wondered if it was down to the weather in winter being better for them or the types of radish. So as an experiment I sowed winter varieties of radish this summer, alongside salad types, and weirdly, the winter ones have grown lovely big succulent radishes, and the summer ones grew tiny stalks and went to seed.

what's going on?  ???

[pigeonseed]

[1066]

Strange! Mind you my summer radish were pants this year, not enough water when they needed it.
I've tried Munchen Bier this year - the podded ones, which really struggled in early summer, but finally came good in August. And the Mooli are just starting to look good from a late sowing :)

Lucky you on winter radish in summer! Think I might give that a go next year  :)

[pigeonseed]

Nice new photo - what's the flag made of, veg? It looks like I ought to know but I can't quite tell.

[macmac]

I've grown radish for ..a lifetime without problems but the last few years apart from a few from an early sowing the results have been awful  :(
is it the weather ?

[pigeonseed]

I don't know if I feel worse or better knowing everyone's having problems  :-\  if it's early and late sowings which are working, that suggests temperature or dryness of soil I suppose. But here the summer was pretty wet  :-\

[1066]

Nice new photo - what's the flag made of, veg? It looks like I ought to know but I can't quite tell.

potatoes  ::)  ;D  ::)