Harvesting Radish Seeds

I(caps)t’s so great to be able to grow radishes at home, but to grow them again we need to buy seeds. As seeds are expensive we need to save a few of our own seeds, so I encourage anyone with a garden to start saving seeds from a few plants, just for the pure joy of watching them grow in the next season!

Here are my tips how to harvest and store radish seeds from your garden plants for later use

First choose which radish plants will go to seed, it must be the healthiest and strongest one!

Continue caring for your radishes, remove any weeds growing around them and keep the soil moist. It may take another couple of weeks before your radishes develop flower buds and seedpods.

As your radish plants continue to grow, they will send up one or maybe two stems. Once these stems grow long and strong, they will sprout small buds. From these buds, the seed pods will emerge. The seed pods will grow, taking on a long, pointed shape.

Once the pods are browning, you can pull the entire plant and put it in a bag and  hang the bag in a dry location. 

Collecting Radish Seeds 

Allow the seeds to completely mature naturally. Once they are completely mature, the pods pop open and the seeds drop into the bag. Then You can collect your radish seeds.

Radish seeds are oval-shaped. The color of the seeds is dark brown. Put them inside a small envelope and save until you are ready to plant them in your garden, remember that the envelope should be small, but still large enough to hold all the seeds. Make sure that the envelope is labeled with the contents and the current date.

Just remember, that if you prefer saving your own seeds for the next season, it is important to choose to grow just one radish variety in your garden. That is the only way to avoid cross-pollinating of different radishes and losing their primary characteristics.

If you don’t grow radishes in your garden, here are some great, quality seeds you can buy to get started!

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