First 2011 radish harvest.

Sounds fantastic isn't?... well, sound much better than the results I really got, but although is bad at least it has a positive outcome... Want to know what it is?. The harvest was bigger than the almost non-existent from last year, so something had to be done right  ah!. I believe it's the fertilizer because last year I didn't really pay attention to all that mumbo jumbo; now even before sowing, an adequate amount of bone-meal went directly into the soil... What is it?.. Phosphorus!.

Still not the way or amount you should expect for a harvest like this, but given the circumstances that bone-meal is a slow release fertilizer and the fact that it is the first time the soil had been fed up with adequate ratios of macro nutrients, made me think the soil is slowly integrating those nutrients, the fact is the harvest amount compared to last year. So more fertilizer will keep feeding the soil.

I will try another harvest by autumn and see if the harvest is better, if it is, then my theory should prove correct.

By the way, there are radish varieties ready for harvest in 22 day, 25 days, 30 days. So instead going every single day to see if each variety is ready, just round it and go see them at the 30 day, plain and simple!

Left to right: Cherry Belle, Crimson Giant, Red Emperor, French Breakfast, Crimson Giant