{"id":383,"date":"2023-01-20T07:00:45","date_gmt":"2023-01-20T13:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/trippyacres.wordpress.com\/?p=383"},"modified":"2023-02-25T18:27:14","modified_gmt":"2023-02-26T00:27:14","slug":"daikon-radish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.trippyacres.com\/index.php\/2023\/01\/20\/daikon-radish\/","title":{"rendered":"Daikon Radish"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table><tbody><tr><td><strong>Scientific Name<\/strong><\/td><td><em>Raphanus sativus<\/em><\/td><\/tr><tr><td><strong>Growing Days<\/strong><\/td><td>45-60<\/td><\/tr><tr><td><strong>Varieties We Grow<\/strong><\/td><td>Japanese Minowase<\/td><\/tr><tr><td><strong>Growing Notes<\/strong><\/td><td>Daikon radish are pretty self sufficient (hurray!); once seeded, they pretty much take care of themselves.  It&#8217;s a good idea to thin the seedlings so they don&#8217;t compete.<\/td><\/tr><tr><td><strong>Battle of the Bugs<\/strong><\/td><td>These guys are pretty hardy and we&#8217;ve had pretty good luck avoiding serious damage, at least so far!<\/td><\/tr><tr><td><strong>Fun Fact<\/strong><\/td><td>Daikon radish is also called &#8220;tillage radish&#8221; because it grows so deep (over 12&#8243;!) and helps to break up soil.  We do that here at Trippy Acres!<\/td><\/tr><tr><td><strong>Don&#8217;t Waste It!<\/strong><\/td><td>Eat it raw, steamed, or sauteed.  No need to peel unless you want to.  The greens (and seed pods) are also edible!<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.trippyacres.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/img_3645.jpg?w=1024\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientific Name Raphanus sativus Growing Days 45-60 Varieties We Grow Japanese Minowase Growing Notes Daikon radish are pretty self sufficient (hurray!); once seeded, they pretty much take care of themselves. It&#8217;s a good idea to thin the seedlings so they don&#8217;t compete. Battle of the Bugs These guys are pretty hardy and we&#8217;ve had pretty &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.trippyacres.com\/index.php\/2023\/01\/20\/daikon-radish\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Daikon Radish<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-what-we-grow","no-featured-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trippyacres.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trippyacres.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trippyacres.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trippyacres.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trippyacres.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=383"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.trippyacres.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1048,"href":"https:\/\/www.trippyacres.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383\/revisions\/1048"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trippyacres.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trippyacres.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trippyacres.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}