Daikon is about the only thing that gets me traffic from google. So, to fill the English-language internet knowledge gap, I give you Daikon!
It didn’t turn out very big.
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August 30, 2008 at 7:58 pm
Laura
I have no idea how big it’s meant to be so it looks A-OK to me.
How’s your broad beans? I’ve got about half a doz visible beans, currently about 12mm long. Flowers still opening at the top. A couple of plants have got rusty spots on the leaves.
August 30, 2008 at 8:58 pm
innercitygarden
The daikon at the market are like large carrots. These daikon are tiny, but then, as you can see, the carrots are tinier. I told the kid it was a carrot and he laughed at me.
The broad beans look healthy, and I’ve got flowers, but no sign of actual beans.
August 30, 2008 at 10:41 pm
Zoe
Daikon can get enormous, but that’s not necessarily a good thing. I’ve only just got Owy to acknowledge that they might be acceptable after a bumper crop the first year we grew them and no idea of what to do with a daikon glut. There’s only so many pickled daikon anybody needs.
August 31, 2008 at 10:04 am
innercitygarden
I figure pulling up the daikon when they’re at a size where we can eat them in on meal is indeed a good thing. I do need to work out what to do with the remaining half a dozen that are in the ground.
The really sad news is that I pulled up these two, had a bit of a taste of one, and then didn’t quite get around to cooking them before they went sad and floppy. So I composted them.