Wisconsin Daikon Harvest

When my parents visited me in Japan they fell in love with the big Japanese radish known as a daikon. This popular, and very large, radish is quite tasty but tough to find back in Wisconsin. So my parent bought some seeds and started their own crop. I was quite surprised they turned out as well as they did.

They did end up growing in weird shapes as opposed to the more traditional long cylinder daikon. My parents think that this is because they grew really far down and hit a layer of clay, and thus had to grow outward instead of downward. Either way they ended up with quite a decent crop. If it was me I would have left one or two in even longer and seen what kind of giant mutant freakish radish I could grow! Oh well, my parents always have next year’s crop to fool around with.

If only they could grow some super giant ones for the county fair…. oh yes… giant ones…