I realize this is an old article... but I was searching the web for "how to" articles on harvesting radishes and was led to my favorite gardening forum. funny how often that happens. I let a dozen or so radishes go wild this past winter and they are blooming like crazy. i had no idea that they made pods! almost look like beans. The slideshow posted above is excellent... I now know how to harvest my seeds. Here's quick picture I took of the radishes. pretty enough to put in the flowerbed in front of house. I'll see if i can get a picture of the pods next time. excuse my messy garden. just got done adding new beds and putting in spring vegetables. Need to dust off the weedeater and pick up trash.

Hello all, I am very interested in reports of recluse spiders in the Hudson Valley / Capital Region of NYS. I am an expert in arachnid toxinology and the identification of significantly venomous spiders, scorpions, etc. I do consulting work on spider ID's and identifying bites. Recently I have been sent a photo / narrative of a bite that is necrotic, does not correlate with an infectious agent, and does not match the symptoms and progression of yellow sac spider. (I actually invented the protocol for distinguishing between yellow sac spider and recluse spider envenomations based on symptoms alone, so I know what I'm looking for). This bite does not present itself to me as being from a yellow sac spider, so I am looking for another cause. What I know, that perhaps others do not, is that the Mediterranean recluse (Loxosceles rufescens) is established in New York *county* / Manhattan. I am open to the possibility that L. rufescens from NYC (which looks just like the native L. reclusa) has wandered up the Hudson Valley and extended its territory. L. rufescens is somewhat more cold tolerant than L. reclusa, and has adapted to environments worldwide to form established micro-populations. Please, if anyone can send me, by PM or email, photos of what you suspect is a recluse spider in NYS, especially in the Hudson Valley, I would greatly appreciate it. With one clear photo I can give expert identification. This will help me to establish whether the species has advanced its territory up from NYC, and thus might have caused the bite I am trying to ID for a patient. Thank you! You can email me at LordArachnius@protonmail.ch

I think that you know what you've got. :-( I strongly suggest that you contact a professional exterminator to help eliminate the spiders. They will be able to get rid of them with products that are probably safer than what you can find. In the meantime, use sticky traps downstairs, too. Shake out your clothes and shoes before putting them on, turn down the bed linens, turn on the lights when walking around at night (they're nocturnal), check the shower before stepping in, Place traps under the bed, behind furniture, on the closet floor, etc. The one that got me was in a stack of clean, folded towels in my linen closet. I also found one on a blouse hanging in the closet and saw one marching across my bed in the night. That was nearly fifteen years, two homes, and another whole state ago....yet I still do all of those things I mentioned. Lol, no BR spiders in this house....just the garage.

Hi seedtraderyandex - what do you mean "$2.50 paypal for all seeds". I'm interested in quite a few of your seeds, but I only have two items on my list :)