Growing Stuff

[sherlew99]

Are your lettuce varieties heat resistant? If not, one of those may work better.

Clay pots may be a good idea, too.

[pickinduck]

I have Black Seeded Simpson growing now. The one corner that didn't fall over and die looks to be doing OK.
The seed packs that I currently have are Nevada and Green Salad Bowl.

[pickinduck]

My French Breakfast Radishes keep looking better and better but I'm not seeing any bulbs yet. Days to harvest is 24 which will be May 16. When should you start seeing a bulb?

[sherlew99]

I'm not finding anything yet on when these, or any other radishes start to bulb.

I did find this, though, on an article about French Breakfast Radishes:

Can be added to vegetable juice–especially if you’ve got a cold–to provide a bit of kick, not to mention sinus-clearing, and throat-soothing abilities (thanks to antioxidant, anti-inflammatory properties).

[sherlew99]

I would give them until about next Wednesday or so.

[pickinduck]

I was wondering about the history of radishes and I seen something yesterday that said they come from china.

[sherlew99]

Looks like it was China.

[sherlew99]

This Wikipedia article places their origin in Southeast Asia with China as one of three areas that as believed to be "secondary centers where differing forms were developed."

[sherlew99]

Ancient Egyptians also enjoyed radishes.

[pickinduck]

That first one said about eastern med.

[pickinduck]

I am re-suspending the grow light in my bedroom window by another means. The first one wasn't working out well enough. See what I'm doing with the command hooks? This is what they do on sailing ships. I think it might be called belaying? I'm going to let the glue on the hooks set until tomorrow before I try to suspend the grow light.

[sherlew99]

May 6, 2017 9:05:11 GMT -6 pickinduck said:

That first one said about eastern med.

True, I was going over the information too quickly. It is a good possibility that they originated from the eastern Mediterranean.

[pickinduck]

When I get home from church today I will try suspending that grow light in my bedroom window and maybe take a photo of the radishes. I think they grew some over night.

[pickinduck]

The radishes had to have grown over night because I just had to lower them because they were touching the light. Remember I had them on top of a pile of stuff? I just removed the last DVD case. Now they are just sitting on the window sill.

[pickinduck]

Just suspended my grow light. Seems OK so far.