Radish Harvest and my first Onion!

Posted on 14. Jun, 2009 by Tracey in My Veg Plot

My Radishes are coming thick and fast now for harvesting, its been a good year for them. I chose a different variety this time – Scarlet Globe.

The taste is nice and then the strong hot after-taste kicks you in the back of the throat. If you are not expecting this (as I wasn’t, I have only grown French Breakfast before which is the mild radish) it can come as quite a shock, although I should have guessed with the colour red, there’s an obvious warning right there! Once I got use to the flavor, its ok and adds a crunchy bite to my salads.

Salads are the top use for Radishes but I always get asked what else can I do with them? Here’s a few Radish Recipes:-

Onion Harvest
As its my first time growing overwintering Onions, I had no idea when to harvest them. I decided to get some advice by signing up for the Grow Your Own Magazine’s Grapevine Forum. The consensus was that people started harvesting their onions in May and I should harvest as and when they are ready or I have something else to plant in their place. There was no point hanging about so I went out into the garden and pulled up a small onion and added it to my chicken dinner, it was lovely.

My Leeks – Pandora and Bandit are the next to go in the place of my onions.
I’m also still harvesting my Broad Beans.

: More Broad Bean Harvesting

: Radish – Scarlet Globe Harvest

: Onion – Red Cross Harvest

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Tags: Harvest,, Onion, Radish,

2 Responses to “Radish Harvest and my first Onion!”

Lauren

15. Jun, 2009

I wasn’t sure when to harvest my onions either, so I just waited until the foliage had pretty much died back. Here is my blog post about growing them for the first time: http://lusciouslawns.wordpress.com/2009/02/06/onion-harvest/
I wanted mine to last through storage, and the majority made it through fine, save for the very smallest ones started sprouting in the last few weeks. I will be sowing this year’s onions in the next few weeks (I am in the southern hemisphere), I was very happy with my onion harvest from last year
Tracey

24. Jun, 2009

Hi Lauren,
You definately have had a good crop of onions, thanks for sharing your blog post. I think I might try and cure some to see whether they last storage or not. If you think 6 months is a long time for onions being in the ground, then you should try growing parsnips, very long time in the ground around 9 months! Nice roasted though.
Best Wishes
Tracey