This year I decided to grow some radish. I do like it but it isn't a vegetable I eat very often. It has a reputation for growing very quickly and I wasn't disappointed. The seeds germinated within a fortnight and the radish themselves had started to form within a few weeks. I thinned them out to give the roots more room to grow and the I harvested the end result today.

These are Zlata radish, which are yellow instead of the more familiar red radish available in the shops. The taste is very similar with a very slight hint of fieriness.

I read recently that some gardeners use radish to mark the end of rows of seeds, since they grow so quickly you can easily see where seeds have been planted to save having to use wooden or plastic row markers. I decided to try that earlier in the week when I re-seeded a few rows of vegetables which had failed to germinate. I couldn't tell exactly where I had planted the seeds but this time the radish 'end markers' should help.