Radish Sparkler
Heritage red-and-white round salad radish
The cheerful little radish that grows in just 25 days from seed to plate - red-and-white roots, peppery flavour, the most rewarding quick-return crop for new gardeners and children.
About this variety
The cheerful little salad radish, bright red with a clean white tip — the pattern that gives it the name. Crisp, mildly hot and refreshing, with the peppery bite that makes radishes worth eating with nothing more than butter and salt.
The thing that makes it genuinely useful is the speed. Twenty-five to thirty days from sowing to pulling, faster than any other common vegetable. That makes it the best possible first crop for a child, and the obvious quick return for anyone impatient.
It also earns its keep as a marker crop. Sown along a row of parsnips or carrots, the radishes come up in days and show you where the slow seed is, and they are eaten long before the main crop needs the room. Water it steadily — drought is what makes a radish woody and unpleasantly fierce.
Plant alongside
Radish Sparkler pairs beautifully with these kitchen garden companions
