Cooler weather and dreams of radishes
French Breakfast Radishes
This heat has me longing for cooler weather so I thought I would post a picture from my spring harvest. It was taken in June when the weather was temperate, rainy, but cooler. Here’s a post I meant to put up earlier in the year, but it slipped into the wrong folder so now here is it!
A lot of people, myself included, would say that when they think of spring vegetables peas are the first thing they think of. I wish that was true! But honestly the first things to come out of the ground in the spring are: radishes, asparagus and rhubarb! Nick and I have eaten our fair share of all three in the past couple weeks, but radishes are the only vegetable that we have harvested from the garden!
I went to the plot to plant my broccoli and I noticed all these little red things sticking out of the ground! I thought someone had put pebbles there for some reason, but then I looked closer and remembered that I had planted radishes there! They are beautiful little French breakfast radishes. They aren’t too spicy, but they aren’t bland either. The only bad thing about them is you have to eat them so quickly or they start to go a little soft!
I’m so proud of my little radishes for making it through this totally crazy spring! Everything is a couple weeks late because it has either been too wet, too cloudy or too hot for the plants to do much.
Martin Seay says:
July 24th, 2011 at 5:00 pm
Your radishes are so slender and European! I like to imagine them hanging around your garden wearing black and smoking cigarettes.