It's normal for some varieties. The cover crop, soil buster" varieties don't do that.. . . Appears root growth is pushing a large portion of the plant and root out of the ground. Never planted them before. So I have no clue!
Yup, you have perfectly happy and growing Daikon Radishes!! Good job!
And you have much more root than that below ground, with fine "hairs", pentrating deep and mining nutrients from deep into the soil. The beauty of these radishes is that (if you don't eat them) when they die, they will leave a hole in the ground, to allow more water to enter your subsoil. It will also breaking up compacted soil, plus leaving a lot of nutrient rich organic matter there for your next crop.
Keep an eye on when your deer start eating them. It took my deer 3 years, to learn to eat them.
If you come to my secluded, quiet, safe house for supper and I am serving spaghetti, guess what you're having? You may have a choice to go eat at the neighbors, that are serving steak, but it might be too far, too crowded and nothing to drink there.
You may find that "other" conditions make it right for them to eat them this year. You'll find out soon, when the acorns are all gone.
Deer seem to me to like most brassicas better late in the season after they've been hit by some hard frosts.Thank you. Glad to know that's normal.
Hopeful they'll eat it this first year but after reading a lot of people mention same as you, that it took the deer several years to get acclimated to it as a food source I'm quite pessimistic. If they do I'm in luck as I've got 3 or so acres of them that are going gangbusters!
I'd almost be willing to bet the farm that come mid-December, all you'll see are the tubers and hardly any of the greens. Then they'll start eating the tubers. One of my favorite brassica to plant.Thank you. Glad to know that's normal.
Hopeful they'll eat it this first year but after reading a lot of people mention same as you, that it took the deer several years to get acclimated to it as a food source I'm quite pessimistic. If they do I'm in luck as I've got 3 or so acres of them that are going gangbusters!
I'd almost be willing to bet the farm that come mid-December, all you'll see are the tubers and hardly any of the greens. Then they'll start eating the tubers. One of my favorite brassica to plant.
Just curious...When did you plant the brassica?I sure hope so. I have 3-3.5 acres of them about two foot high. Plenty to go around.
Just curious...When did you plant the brassica?
You did it right.First week of September. Three weeks later hit with nitrogen. They've done really well. Have winter wheat in strips through the brassicas I didn't plant till first week of October.
You did it right.