Vegetable / Cool season
Minowase Daikon Radish
Fall root beds, quick kimchi crops, and soil-loosening rows.
Long white roots with crisp texture and mild bite.
Seed spacing and maturity
- Days to maturity
- 60
- Germination temperature
- 45-85F
- Seed depth
- 0.5 inches
- Spacing
- 6 inches
- Row spacing
- 18 inches
- Start method
- Direct sow
Frost-date timing
- Direct sow
- 28 days before last frost
- Fall planting
- 8 weeks before first frost
- Succession interval
- repeat every 14 days
Growing profile
- Sun
- Full sun
- Water
- Consistent moisture prevents pithy roots and excessive pungency.
- Soil
- Loose, deep soil for long straight roots.
- Watch
- Avoid shallow compacted soil, which causes forking and short roots.
- root-crop
- asian-greens
- brassica
- direct-sow
Browse context
- Vegetable Catalog Category collection
- Mustard Family Rotation and family context
- Cool Season Seeds Season collection
- Direct Sow Seeds Start-method collection
- Beginner-Friendly Seeds Practical trait collection
- Succession Sowing Seeds Practical trait collection
- Quick-Maturity Seeds Practical trait collection
- Fall-Planting Seeds Practical trait collection
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Source: CSU vegetable planting guide