This means if you sow 100 radish seeds, at least 80 of them germinate. You can scale this back and use fewer seeds, like 50 (40 germinate) or even 30 (24 germinate).

If you're not interested in growing radishes, you could always try growing lettuce in your compost bin instead, as lettuce generally also has a germination time of under 10 days.

For example, bunching radishes germinate in as quickly as three to four days, and then take 20 to 30 days to mature. On the outer ends, that's a total of 34 days.

Radishes germinate quickly, marking the row, and break up the soil crust making it easier for the more tender carrots to emerge. By the time the carrots are up, ...

This means you won’t have to thin them later, and both beets and radishes germinate easily. Second, you don’t want 50 radishes or beets to be ready for harvest at the same time—as every ...

I only get about 30% germination. I bought some new seed and started over, planting my regular Roma seed and some Blue Lake that I just bought to see if the seed is the problem.

Several weeks ago, I wrote about my first (failed) attempt at growing radishes. The plants grew way too tall, with an abundance of leaves and with no ball-shaped, radish-y root. My theory was that ...