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I quite like hot radishes with my salads, but the ones available in my
local supermarket are bland. Can anyone recommend a variety that I can
grow from seed, red or white, in a pot or tub that are reasonably hot?
Probably a bit late for this year, but there's always next year.
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Chris

Gardening in West Cornwall, very mild, sheltered
from the West, but open to the North and East.
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On 31/07/2025 09:40, Chris Hogg wrote:

I quite like hot radishes with my salads, but the ones available in my
local supermarket are bland. Can anyone recommend a variety that I can
grow from seed, red or white, in a pot or tub that are reasonably hot? Probably a bit late for this year, but there's always next year.

+1

Even the "specialist" ones I can get in Sainsburys aren't any better
now, and not worth paying the extra for,

You might be better off growing nasturtiums and putting the leaves in a
salad (the flowers are nice to eat too)!
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Jeff
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Jeff Layman <Jeff@invalid.invalid> wrote:

On 31/07/2025 09:40, Chris Hogg wrote:

I quite like hot radishes with my salads, but the ones available in my local supermarket are bland. Can anyone recommend a variety that I can
grow from seed, red or white, in a pot or tub that are reasonably hot? Probably a bit late for this year, but there's always next year.

+1

Even the "specialist" ones I can get in Sainsburys aren't any better
now, and not worth paying the extra for,

You might be better off growing nasturtiums and putting the leaves in a
salad (the flowers are nice to eat too)!

Nasturtium leaves contain mustard oil, so beware if you have an allergy
to mustard. [How did I discover this?...]
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In article <106fbu5$3l2og$1@dont-email.me>,
Jeff Layman <Jeff@invalid.invalid> wrote:

On 31/07/2025 09:40, Chris Hogg wrote:

I quite like hot radishes with my salads, but the ones available in my
local supermarket are bland. Can anyone recommend a variety that I can
grow from seed, red or white, in a pot or tub that are reasonably hot?
Probably a bit late for this year, but there's always next year.

+1

Even the "specialist" ones I can get in Sainsburys aren't any better
now, and not worth paying the extra for,

I quite like mild radishes, because I eat them as nibbles with salt.
But even my home-grown ones are little hotter - it's the modern
varieties.

You might be better off growing nasturtiums and putting the leaves in a >salad (the flowers are nice to eat too)!

I find naturtiums collect blackfly, but they are good otherwise.
There are also mustards that you can grow for salad leaves, or
even chillis. Both grow well in pots.


Regards,
Nick Maclaren.
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On 31/07/2025 09:40, Chris Hogg wrote:

I quite like hot radishes with my salads, but the ones available in my
local supermarket are bland. Can anyone recommend a variety that I can
grow from seed, red or white, in a pot or tub that are reasonably hot? Probably a bit late for this year, but there's always next year.

I've always found that fresh picked ones have heat, but it sort if
decays after picking. I.e. is less the variety and more the freshness.
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"Nature does not give up the winter because people dislike the cold."

rCo Confucius

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On 31/07/2025 10:28, Nick Maclaren wrote:

In article <106fbu5$3l2og$1@dont-email.me>,
Jeff Layman <Jeff@invalid.invalid> wrote:

You might be better off growing nasturtiums and putting the leaves in a
salad (the flowers are nice to eat too)!

I find naturtiums collect blackfly, but they are good otherwise.

Up to a point, but cabbage white eggs and caterpillars are more of a
threat, unless you like a bit of protein with your greens... ;-)

I believe that some brassica growers use nasturtiums as sacrificial
plants to attract cabbage whites away from their wanted veg.
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Jeff
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On 31/07/2025 15:29, Jeff Layman wrote:

Up to a point, but cabbage white eggs and caterpillars are more of a
threat, unless you like a bit of protein with your greens... Efye

Legend has it that one of the pupils at the school I attended in the
1950's asked the Deputy Head "There's a caterpillar on my lettuce, Miss Bartlett, what do I do with it" and got the response "Eat it, child!
It's been eating the same things as you have."
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Jenny M Benson
Wrexham, UK
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On 31/07/2025 13:56, The Natural Philosopher wrote:

On 31/07/2025 09:40, Chris Hogg wrote:

I quite like hot radishes with my salads, but the ones available in my
local supermarket are bland. Can anyone recommend a variety that I can
grow from seed, red or white, in a pot or tub that are reasonably hot?
Probably a bit late for this year, but there's always next year.

I've always found that fresh picked ones have heat, but it sort if
decays after picking. I.e. is less the variety and more the freshness.

I've given up with radishes in the supermarkets I use. The latest
batches have all been too "woody" as if not enough water prior to
harvesting or in transit too long in hot weather.
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