French Radishes and Scarlet Carrots

Posted by admin on May 12, 2011

The photo below is a great example from our garden showing French Radishes and Scarlet Carrots. As you can see, the radishes were planted more densely.

What is interesting here is not just that they are both fast growers, being roughly the same size plants now. What is interesting is that the radishes will need to be thinned while the carrots will not. When radishes are planted too close, they won’t fully develop. When carrots are planted closely, they will fully develop.

When ready to harvest, leaves of all these will look good. But radishes planted too close will not have an edible size plant while the carrots will. In fact, if some carrots are planted too closely, we have seen them even wrap around each other!

In the photo below, the carrots are on the left and the radishes on the right. In the middle, we have planted more seeds recently, and covered them with chicken wire to keep birds and various animals out.