How do I know my radishes are ready?
kelleyp125
12 years ago
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Comments (4)Yeah, what he said. You can also get a good idea of how big they are by just looking at the tops bulging out of the soil. If they're not doing that, they're likely not bulbing much. Scraping some soil away will reveal more....See MoreI think my garlic is ready to harvest.... now what do I do?!
Comments (5)Forgottenone: If my garlic is any indication, you've got it backwards on the flowering. All of my softnecks produced scapes and none of the hardnecks produced a scape. WJB2: for future reference, wait until your plants have lost their bottom 3 - 4 leaves (dried up and turned brown), stop irrigating and when the ground is dried and not wet enough to stick badly to the bulbs then, lift the plants with a turning fork and carefully remove them from the ground. Now it's off to cleaning and curing as described by others previously....See MoreHow do you know when beets are ready?
Comments (10)This is my first year with a garden, but I'll try. I also grew some beets earlier, and still have some growing. I thinned mine when they got about 2 inches tall. You might be able to wait longer...not really sure. Yes, you want a couple of inches between them. If you don't have enough room between they don't grow right. As they start to swell, I would just pull a little dirt away from the top of the root to check the size. I do the same with my carrots. When they get to the size you would like, depending on the variety you planted, pull 'em! Paul...See MoreReady to harvest - how do I know?
Comments (12)Hi there, Im no EXPERT, but thought I should add my two cents worth. I have a tiered system, and it is pretty obvious when the castings are ready. On the lowest layer most of the material added has gone, and things look.... aerated. The castings are lumpy and round and remind me of visiting the beach and you see where the little crabs have dug burrows and there are the little round balls of sand left on top. It looks nice and fluffy. Because I have a tiered system, when the bottom layer is mostly castings the worms generally migrate to the second layer. They cant survive in just castings with no new food! So I can tell its time to harvest when there are heeeeeaps of worms in the next layer up, but only a few in the bottom layer. I don't worry about trying to save them, it goes in the garden/pots whatever, and they can live in there from now on. If you have a mature worm farm, it should have self regulated to a certain population by now anyway. So the loss of a few worms will do no harm and they will reproduce to cover the loss. If you system is not a tiered one, I do recall a book by permaculturist Jackie French. She used a double sink as a worm farm. When she wanted to take the castings she would turn on a slow slow hose in the sink. The worms would come to the surface to escape the water and then she would sweep them all off into the second side of the sink and start afresh. Another way to harvest if you have a single bin is to feed only on one side of the bin for a week or two. Then if there is no food left on the old side, the worms will migrate to the new food and you can remove the castings....See Morekelleyp125
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