Vegetable

• Crops in : April to October
• Ideal for : Children

Description

Long, tapering, red-skinned roots with crisp white flesh. Radish Ravanello Il Candela di Fuoco is succulent and quick maturing. An essential ingredient for the salad.

Sowing Instructions

Radishes require rich, moisture retentive soils containing plenty of well-rotted manure or compost for the quick production of tender, crisp roots. Seeds can be sown in succession outdoors from March to September; earlier sowings from February can be made under protection. In warmer months maturity can be as quick as 5 weeks. Sowings can be broadcast or in rows, 13mm deep.

Growing Instructions

Ideal as an intercrop between other long standing crops. Because of their rapid germination radishes are often used as a marker for slower germinating crops such as parsley. Frequent pulling of mature roots is vital because very quickly they can become soft and pithy with poor flavour.

Aftercare

The tender young leaves can be used as an additive to soups and radish seed can also be used as sprouting seeds for salads and stir-fries.

Nutritional Information

Radishes are rich in Vitamin C and potassium and contain sulphur compounds.

Kitchen Notes

Serving suggestion - Radish and orange salad. Blend a vinaigrette of olive oil, lemon and orange juices, sugar. Toss sliced radishes, baby spinach, rocket, flat parsley and orange slices in the vinaigrette.