I have these to trade: 20 seeds each. Spinach Wyatt-Quarles broccoli Wyatt-Quarles purple top turnips Wyatt-Quarles in exchange for your items: 2. Green Zebra (striped) (1 packs) H 2012 4. Amur Tiger (striped) Limited Availability (1 packs) H 2013 6. African Brown Limited Availability (1 packs) H 2013

I have white icicle radishes. I'd love some yellow banana peppers. I'd trade for anything pretty much that is edible if you'd like to make a larger trade, my list is up to date, I think so anyways, or just the peppers would be fine too. let me know at mamahack@hotmail.com.

Like several other posters, I like radish sandwiches, with my favorite dressing as the spread... a little fresh Bibb lettuce & a few spinach leaves make it even better. To reduce the heat, peel off most of the skin before slicing... prepared that way, even my granddaughter likes them. For the most part, I grow radishes mainly for the pods. I love them tossed in a salad, to me they are better than the roots & no slicing or peeling involved. Some commercial varieties are better for pods than others; of the most common, "Icicle" gave me the best results. The harvest window for most radish pods is very short, so you need to pick them small & often. But for really good pods, you need to grow a variety that was bred for that purpose. "Madras Podding" does not develop an enlarged root, but gets large, tender pods that are very slow to develop fiber. They stay juicy & palatable for a long time on the plant, and did not get unbearably hot during warm weather.

Soil: Sandy Loam, pH: 7.8 Have only had a complete failure bulbing up once, that was with black spanish. Never grew them again, but read where they do better as fall radishes--plant warm, let weather cool down as they grow. I don't thin--just sprinkle seed in the row and pull the first ones ready "thins" the rest a little, but they are already bulbing up, just slower. As a result, they tend to grow like hair on a dogs back. Sometimes I have more that will end up never bulbing up, sometimes very few. They are among the earliest things I plant. I've been wanting to plant the radishes and a lot of other things for the last month and haven't gotten there yet--weather just plain wet so I can't get in the garden, and this weekend is called due to rain, also. I've felt that later radishes often have a harder time bulbing up, whether it is the warmer weather or maybe day length could be a factor. Sometimes I wonder if it doesn't have something to do with seed quality or source.