Radish French Breakfast

The most popular traditional variety for its mildness and crisp, tender tankard-shaped roots with a white tip. A reliable old-fashioned favourite, it’s fast cropping.

• The roots are crisp and have a mild flavour, perfect for adding to summer salads.
• Sow regularly for a tasty supply of fresh-picked radishes all summer long.
• Sow outdoors, sow thinly, February-September, where they are to crop, 1.5cm (½”) deep, directly into finely-prepared, well-drained, fertile soil, which has already been watered.
• Allow 23cm (9″) between rows.
• Early sowings, especially those in February, will benefit from cloche protection.
• Seedlings usually appear in 7-10 days.
• Water well until plants are established.
• Thin only if plants are overcrowded.
• Harvest: April-October.