Hello everyone welcome back to the epic gardening podcast today we're talking about the humble

radish one of the best little garden poppers out there and when I say poppers I mean you can pop them into little nooks and crannies in your beds or you can just pop them out of the soil into your mouth or into a salad or some sort of fermented action.

So today we're talking about why they don't bulb up.

And so there's four different reasons why this might be happening.

And of course there's more than four, but these are the four most common that I've run into.

So let's go ahead and figure this out.

The first one is going to be too little sunlight.

A lot of people consider radish to be a winter crop, fall winter, early spring crop.

Certainly that's true, but they do want as much sun as you can give them you know

four plus hours minimum I would say definitely six is preferable or even more

so if you're not giving them enough sun, they can't photosynthesize and they cannot make enough energy in order to actually bulb up that route.

So I would just increase the sun. That's my first tip. Number two, too much nitrogen in the

soil, not enough phosphorus and not enough potassium. Nitrogen, as we know, really big contributor

to leafy green growth, the actual vegetation of a plant, whereas phosphorus and

potassium are used in much higher amounts during the fruiting or the flowering or the

bulbing phases of a plant's growth.

So if you're having a lot of tops and not a lot of bulbous roots,

well then it's probably the case of too much nitrogen.

So you can fix that by adding a little bit more of

potassium or phosphorus or you can just sort of amend and hope that you sort of bring down that percentage of

nitrogen in the soil.

Next is going to be temperature.

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