Green Luobo
Green Asian specialty for fermenting.
Adds beautiful green color to kimchi. Also great for fresh eating. Uniform and fast maturing. Selected for its flavor profile, a nice balance of sweet and spicy. Replaces Green Meat. For summer planting/fall harvest. For long storage. NOTE: Not recommended for spring sowing, as it will bolt.
LATIN NAME Raphanus sativus
DAYS TO MATURITY 57 Days
LIFE CYCLE Annual
HYBRID STATUS Open Pollinated
CULTURE: Radishes require friable, well-drained soils with a pH range of 5.8–6.8. Sow at any time during the season, beginning in early spring. Use 2–3" wide bands, seeds about 3/4–1" apart (about 35 seeds/ft. except 10 seeds/ft. for 624 Red Meat and 616 Nero Tondo), 1/2" deep, rows 1' apart, or any row or bedding scheme that will eliminate unplanted ground to discourage weeds. Radishes are adversely affected by hot, dry weather. They remain in prime condition only a few days and should be grown rapidly with plenty of moisture to be mild, tender, and attractive. If growth is checked, roots may become tough, pithy, and too spicy.
INSECT PESTS: Use floating row covers at time of planting to control flea beetles and cabbage root maggots.
HARVEST AND STORAGE: Harvest promptly to avoid pithiness, beginning at about 3-4 weeks when roots are the size of a large marble. Bunch or top, hydrocool, and refrigerate. Topped radishes will keep 3–4 weeks in good, crisp condition if kept at 32°F (0°C), 95% relative humidity, and in breathable packaging. See product descriptions for longer storage of specialty types.
SIZED SEEDS: Round red varieties only.
PACKET: 250 seeds, sows 7'.
johnnyseeds
What are the pros? taste, size, earliness
What are the cons? nothing!
Review: Mildly spicy, huge and early, a greatl fall radish for us in Northern Virginia.
What are the pros? produced all season long
What are the cons? not as green. more white
Review: these radishes grew all season long for me. In the rainy cold and in the heat. not one bolted! The down side was the majority of the radish was white and not much was the beautiful green
What are the pros? Like it
What are the cons? No
Review: I use to sow in September in Tracy CA and ready by November they get sweet as the temperature gets cold as they grow. Moved to NC High Point I sowed them on 9/16/17 are about 2 inches high hope to get good result by November
What are the pros? Easy to grow, likes it cold
What are the cons? None so far
Review: First time planting, March 2017. Harvested almost all. Very spicy Long burn horseradish like in flavor, fairly firm to the tooth. I did let about 5 bolt. Got about 3-4 feet high, beautiful little purple flowers. Hummingbirds are buzzing me to get clear of the garden. They are going to seed. They have an oblong green spike about 2-3 inches that is the seed pack. Lots of them. Killer snacks. The asians at work have never seen them and are truly fascinated in the fact that I'm pickling them. I would recommend doing this.
What are the pros? Hardy, Moderate Growth, Spicy
What are the cons? Low Growing, Dense Foilage
Review: Alright, I sowed this variety into our test garden in the first week of March 2017. I am very cautious about growing radishes in our climate as we get wild diurnal Spring temperatures and reach the upper 70s by June. So, I figured, why not try earlier? These radishes are growing at a moderate clip with many days only reaching the 40s and overnights have bottomed out in the 10s. I haven't lost a single plant to the snow that fell on them nor the very low temperatures. I decided to thin a bit late with 2-3 sets of true leaves showing for greens. They're spicy like black pepper corns. The small roots that already have started to develop the barrel shape are right between Horseradish and real Wasabi in heat. The downside is that they are close to the ground and dense leaves when harvesting. I was surprised that they didn't get sweeter with the cool temperatures but that's just fine with me. This is a delightful variety that I am going to sow every year and maybe even earlier.
What are the pros? oddness
What are the cons? n/a
Review: super easy to grow. almost all seeds sprouted so no weeding necessary. white tips and showy green tops. spicy. seeded 15 july for mid september harvest in south/central VT.
rareseeds
Chinese Shawo Fruit Radish
Unique bright green radish from North China with sweet flavor. Known in Beijing as a fruit radish, the sweet roots are crisp and sweet, considered a tasty fruit substitute similar in texture and taste to pear. Northern Chinese winters are notoriously harsh; these long cylindrical radishes sweeten up when exposed to frost and make a nutritious mid-winter snack. This variety is traditionally offered as a sliced fresh “fruit” at Beijing tea parties in wintertime. These opulent tea parties are thrown to celebrate the famous Peking Opera. We also love this super sweet root as a winter time snack. Grows well in cool weather and is great for a fall planting. Plant about 60 days before frost in the late summer. Beautiful green goodness! rareseeds
GREEN MEAT RADISH (50 DAYS)

Germ 5-7 days
A unique, green fleshed Asian radish. Has a very fine grain, crisp and sweet. An excellent keeper, good eaten raw, cooked or pickled. A much larger radish than most Americans are used to. The roots are 9” long, deep green with a white tip, 3” in diameter. 150 seeds $ 1.95
PLANTING:
Outdoors- Sow 1/2” deep, 1/2 -1” apart in early spring. Thin to 1-2’ apart, soon after they emerge
Harvest- 3-4 weeks after planting at 1” in diameter, pull them promptly as they rapidly decline becoming tough and pithy
Tips- They need rapid growth for optimum results, provided by fertile soil and consistent moisture. For continuous harvest make successive planting every 7-10 days when weather is still cool. superseeds