. Biggle garden book; vegetables, small fruits and flowers for pleasure and profit. nch deep,and thin the plants to about three inches apart. Theseed germinates very quickly and the crop is ready 98 BIGGLE GARDEN BOOK in five or six weeks, usually. Successional sowingsmay be made at ten-day intervals until, June, so as to expect a crop before freezing weather. Marketing: After radishes are pulled, somemarket gardeners soak them for three hours inbarrels of water, to make them extra crisp (seefull-page picture facing this chapter). Next theyare placed on a wire-netting rinsing tray, roots allon
. Biggle garden book; vegetables, small fruits and flowers for pleasure and profit. nch deep,and thin the plants to about three inches apart. Theseed germinates very quickly and the crop is ready 98 BIGGLE GARDEN BOOK in five or six weeks, usually. Successional sowingsmay be made at ten-day intervals until, June, so as to expect a crop before freezing weather. Marketing: After radishes are pulled, somemarket gardeners soak them for three hours inbarrels of water, to make them extra crisp (seefull-page picture facing this chapter). Next theyare placed on a wire-netting rinsing tray, roots allone way; third, they are rinsed with a stream offresh water (see two illustrations in this chapter).Then they are tied in bunches, leaves left on, and areready to sell or to pack for shipment. Different ship-ping packages are used in different localities. Varieties : Among the best-known early short-rooted kinds are Scarlet Globe, Round Red, WhiteTurnip, French Breakfast, Half-long Deep Scarlet,etc. Early long-rooted: Early Scarlet Short Chinese is a good winter have radishes in good con-dition all through the radishseason. In July and Augustthis crop does not do sowell, and is seldom plantedthen. One ounce of seedshould sow about lOO feetof drill; ten pounds aboutone acre. Radishes are oc-casionally grown in hotbedsor coldframes for very earlymarket. AFTER SOAKING, RADISHESARE PLACED ON A WIRE-NET-TING RINSING TRAY, ROOTSALL ONE WAY Winter radishes are notmuch in favor in this coun-try, but those who likethem may sow the seedabout September ist, and ROOT CROPS 99
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