Radish plant growth,its types ,food combination and Health benefits
Radish Types and appearance
Mongare is a type of herbaceous plant others include red round radish , long white underground edible root called mulli in pakistan and several regions of asia. Each one has its own distinct taste and are cooked in different types of dishes. All are from the Brassica family. They have the most unique shapes to look at and in taste they are comparative to each other and are delicious vegetables in diffrent combinations. The round red radish is eaten in salad while the long white underground root is also eaten whole in salad and in Pakistan it is eaten filled in shredded form in wheat flat unleavened bread called paratha. It is also eaten as a snack and in curry salan in asia pacific region.
My procedure to grow Radish pods
My advice is to buy high quality seeds to grow good quality pods. I put 20 seeds in a big pot and spread a fine layer of garden greens and peat moss mixture on top of them. Which I kept in the light sun. Radish pods grow from best during winter.
After 7 days of seed sowing seeds germinated very good. In another 15 days, they were transferred to big pots. After 50 days of maturity, the plant started to produce beautiful four-petalled flowers.
Bees and other bees were forced to nest in the flowers for pollination and after a few days millet pods began to form, which resulted in a bad harvest of another 10 days and not in the years of the harvester. Some millet pods were allowed to remain on the main plant, which matured and matured for another 20 days to become seeds for planting the next crop.
Selection of Radishes for Pods Growth
All radishes have the potential to develop pods when brought to flowering stage.These pods are juicy,edible somewhat crispy and are edible in different ways.Some Edible varieties grown all over the world may include:- Rat's Tail – this is the edible podded radish of classic type.
- Dragon's Tail – the pods are purple for this sort of Radish.
- Singara – an heirloom from type pods from |Indian region.
- Munchen Bier – a German variety which also produces edible roots.
Diseases and problems associated with Radish Growth
- After maturartion of Radish plant,some caterpillers may start producing larvae on new leaves and branches.These larvae came from butterflies which may secrete sticky secretion leading to development of Net/web.
Petals and flowers entangled in web of caterpillars fall off
- Some leaves may get yellow with onset of maturation which indicates that plant is secreting waste in form of yellow leaves and may fall off.It also is indicative of low plant nutrients.
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| Plant running Low in nutrients generate yellow leaves as plant waste |
- Whole plant may fall off due to plant laden pods.It may also be associated due to delicate branches.Plant may also fell down due to overwetted soil leading to plant dropping down on earth.
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| Whole plant laden with Pods fallen off |
- Branch of Radish plant may tilt over/bend from centre downward.This problem is assocated with some plant pathogen,under watering,overwatering and even no support to longer branches carrying pods.
Plant branches tilting over from centre.
Nutritional Benefits of Radishes
Couple of Antioxidants are present in Radishes including many phenolic compounds including Catechin,Vanillic acid and pyrogallol.The root of Radishes are rich source of Vitamin C which itself is an antioxidant.
