Radish Varieties

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Great Radishes to try

Cherry Belle Radish
- Cherry shaped and cherry coloured. Pure crisp white flesh which is slow to go pithy and woody. Mild flavour.
French Breakfast Radish
- One of the most famous varieties but I have yet to see it eaten first thing in the morning in France. Long roots of red with a white tip.
Mooli Radish
- Japanese type giving long white roots with crisp flesh. Use peeled and sliced in salads or added to stir-fry cooking.
Munchen Bier Radish
Grown for seed pods. Plants should be about 6-8cm apart. Quickly goes up to flower and produce seed pods which should be used when green and crisp and can be snapped easily. Raw in salads or in a stir-fry. Spicy flavour.
Red Meat Radish
- Quite large round roots with red topped white skin and delightful deep rose coloured flesh. Ideal for slicing for both fresh or stir fry use.
Scarlet Globe Radish
- Good traditional variety giving lovely round roots of bright red. Suitable for early cropping under cloches.
Sparkler Radish
- Attractive on a salad plate, bright red round roots with a white tip. Mild flavour and crisp flesh.
Summer Crunch Radish
- Our own introduction, semi-long stump ended roots with deep pink skin with pure white tip and flesh. Sweet flavour and crisp texture.
Tarzan Radish
- Excellent variety for autumn or under cover in early spring. it quickly forms roots which are very uniform. The nice, round radishes are a deep, rich red colour and keep well. Also very high yielding.
  Sowing December-March or September-October.
Black Spanish Long Radish
- Long tapered roots with dark brown skin and pure white flesh. Can be left in the ground and harvested in winter or stored in dry sand in frost free shed.
Black Spanish Round Radish
- The round counterpart to the above. Both have crisp tasty flesh which can be sliced or grated for use in winter salads.
China Rose Radish
- Medium large oblong shaped roots with rose pink skin and pure white flesh. Can be harvested in autumn and stored in dry sand in frost free conditions.

Category: Recipes

Lamb Cutlets with Butternut Squash & Mint

Simply delicious one of my all time favourites

Pasta with Asparagus and Courgette

Asparagus and Courgette are made for each other in this dish!

Irish Stew with Parsnips

Irish Stew with Parsnips
The Parsnips are by no means traditional in this recipe and are optional but my wife loves them so what you going to do?

Category: The Growing Season

Spring should be here but watch out for frosts!

Sow seed outdoors
Vegetable growing really takes off this month. Chit and plant out second early potatoes in the first half of the month, maincrop potatoes in the second half. It's also time to sow seed outdoors in well-prepared soil.

The Growing Season

The Growing Season varies in different parts of the United Kingdom, but in Hatfield Peverel we are blessed with a milder climate and enjoy a longer season than many parts of the country.

In this section of the web site I have tried to separate the season out into monthly sections to help and guide you through the most popular tasks and crops regularly grown on the allotment site, but if you would like a feature made of a particular vegetable or task, please get in touch and I will do my best to add it to the web site for you.

Jobs to do in October

October is the month when it feels like the season is about to turn, the days start to shorten and the sun appears lower in the sky, the leaves change colour and fall to the ground and temperatures drop. The first frost are likely too, which will be the end of many of your crops out in the open so if you still haven’t harvested frost sensitive crops now is the time before Jack Frost gets them!

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