vegetable
Radish
Twenty-five days. The crop you sow when you need a win, or when the season is almost over.
- Sun
- Full sun
- Spacing
- 2 in
- Days
- 22–30
- Zones
- 3a–11a
How to sow
Direct-sow, ½ inch, keep wet. Every two weeks in cool weather.
Harvest
At the size on the packet. Waiting makes them pithy and hot.
Mistakes that waste a packet
- Forgetting they exist for 40 days
- Dry soil
Three packets
Cherry Belle
BeginnerRound, fast, and mild if you water it.
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Related
Tomatoes
Start indoors. Match days-to-maturity to the weeks you actually have after last frost.
Peppers
Need more heat and a longer indoor start than tomatoes. Short-season varieties matter north of zone 7.
Lettuce
The crop that makes a first garden feel like a garden. Sow in spring and again in late summer.
The sow list
A note when it is time to sow
Seasonal, not daily. We will send what to start in your zone, and skip the rest of the year.
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