I planted the watermelon radishes at the same time but they are not quite bulbing yet but they shouldn't for another week or so. I'm thinking I should have planted them in the fall. I thought I had time but I'm not so sure now. I think the black radishes will likely be a bust cause I think those take a really long time to mature. But also my watermelon radishes are in a container that is behind due to not enough sun. You can always pull watermelon radishes when they are small if you run out of time and it's going to get hot out. That's what I did last year. I pulled them when regular radish size. For radishes you want cool to mild weather and lots of sun but if it gets hot out they will bolt and get really spicy, pithy and muddy tasting. I found that out from experience before I found gardenweb and figured out they are a winter crop out here in CA. Ania

I also pulled one up because the foliage was so large, and it was about the size of the smaller of the two in the picture above. But then I pulled another with foliage as big or bigger and it was like yours, tiny like a mini carrot. I went and looked closely at the rest of my radishes at ground level and discovered that the top of the radish protrudes slightly from the ground. If I had noticed this, instead of going by foliage, I would have seen that the larger radish I pulled was nearly 2" across at the top while the smaller one was barely a 1/2". Not sure why some roots with large foliage remain small. Maybe they're just duds. I guess I'll find out going forward.

For those of you having troubles with cukes and squash, you might want to inter-plant with nasturtiums next time, try it! My garden in 9b is just going to be one year old, or should I rather say, I will be celebrating one year of being the garden's loving custodian....so I have lots of troubles. In march/April I had a jungle of brassicas (both rapas and oleraceas). I had this green explosion and almost ran out of room in the freezer. Turnips, kales, collards, bok choi, beet greens, you name it. When it got warmer the harlequin beetles attacked them and they all died, after I had hopes for their perennialization (a word?). The Harlequin proceeded to suck the jalapenos and the tomatoes, ruining several tomato plants too. I was (am) so afraid to put brassicas on the ground again, until I realized I need to give them sacrificial crops. This started to work to some extent last year, and my fear was that sunflowers would not sprout at this time of the year. Guess what? they did! I now have sunflowers growing and I just planted some kale and mustards near them. Not sure if nasturtiums will do the trick for brassicas but I put them in too. We also got some brussel sprouts trying to germinate in a protected environment (terrarium), I think I will use the plastic cylinders from soft drink bottles that grandad from Louisiana is showing on the cole crops thread. So glad I overcame my fear of trying brassicas again. I still have to successfully grow cauliflowers and broccoli though. We will see how the brussel sprouts do and think about it, my cauliflowers never flowered last year, but the leaves were good....LOL In the mean time, the amaranth is still producing as many greens as I need. They are tougher leaves now that the plants are seeding, so I just cook them longer and they are still acceptable. Whatever tries to attack them gets in turn eaten by a large collection of lady bugs that seem to hang out near them a lot. I am encouraging more lady bugs by planting more and more cilantro. When they reach their end I will still have several dozen pounds of frozen green in the freezer from the spring. After that I hope the cole crops will be ready to harvest, and the harlequins somewhat controlled. So I hope anyways. I was so furious when i found out they are an introduced species! grrrr.....and no predators either, not even chickens will eat them. Anybody knows of other sacrificial crops to deter bugs from cole crops? I will need something after the sunflowers run their course, but I suppose since now I know they will grow at any time, I can keep planting more and more sunflowers. A very handsome looking sacrificial crop at that.....

You should harvest when they're about half grown.