Red Skin Radish: Growing Tips

Key facts

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United States

Overview

Red Skin is a Chinese radish with red-skinned, white-fleshed roots about 8 inches long and 2 inches wide. It performs best as a fall crop from a late-summer sowing.

Red Skin traits

• Chinese radish, red skin with white flesh
• Roots about 8 by 2 inches
• Best for fall crops

Good for

• Fresh slicing
• Pickling

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Red Skin FAQ

Sowing, care and common problems

Sowing times, care and common problems are the same for every radish variety, so they are covered once in the growing guide.

• Radish growing guide
• How to Sow Radishes: Thin Drills and a Quarter Inch of Soil
• Thinning Radishes in Two Rounds to Two Inches Apart
• Watering and Feeding Radishes: Steady Moisture Stops Splitting
• Radish Growing Calendar: Sow Every Two Weeks for a Long Harvest
• Radish Problems: Flea Beetle Holes and Split Roots
• When to Harvest Radishes and How to Store Them
• All 106 radish varieties

Source

Source: Cornell University (CALS Garden-Based Learning)

The text on this page is our own summary written from the published variety record, not a copy of it.

Written byYasuGrowing vegetables and fruit in Chiba, Japan, and building Gadenin. Corrections are welcome. 15 years of growing.