Vegetable Description: Purple Plum is indeed a purple-skinned, hardy annual radish for your garden! Firm, white flesh is mildly spicy, and almost never pithy! Requires consistently moist soil. This variety self sows freely and may be invasive...deadhead if you do not want volunteer seedlings.

Vegetable Botanical Name: Raphanus sativus

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Vegetable Duration: Biennial

Vegetable Days to Maturity: 28

Vegetable Seeds Per Oz: 2700

Vegetable Height: 6” to 18”

Vegetable Spacing: 2” to 3”

Vegetable Planting: Direct sow outside in early spring. Can be fall planted. Plant about 2” apart and 1/2“ below soil surface. Can sow closer, then thin later. Rows should be spaced 18” apart.

Vegetable Seed Saving: Allow seed heads to dry on plants; then remove heads, break them open, and collect seeds. Clean and dry the seeds before storage in cool dry conditions.