Radish
Rábano · Radis
🧩 Role in the garden
- Family
- Brassicaceae
- Height
- low (< 40 cm)
- Shape
- compact
- Roots
- shallow · taproot
- Sun
- tolerates some shade
- Season
- cool season
- Grows in
- summer or winter beds
- Feeds
- light feeder
Jobs in the bed
- Fast fillerHarvested within weeks, so it fits between slow crops before they fill the space.
- Trap cropPests prefer it to your crop. Plant it a little apart and let it take the damage.
Rotation
Do not return Brassicaceae to the same spot for 3–4 years. Same family:
✓ Good neighbours
✗ Keep apart
None listed.
✿ Helpful flowers & herbs
- ✿ NasturtiumTrap crop — draws aphids & caterpillars off the crop; trailing ground cover; edible Plant slightly away from the main crop so pests move to it, not onto the crop