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How to grow Mooli (Daikon)
Raphanus sativus var. longipinnatus
🥕 Vegetable
🌱 Grown each year
Long, white winter radish with a mild, crisp bite — grated into salads, pickled or simmered. Sow in midsummer; spring sowings bolt.
At a glance: Sow late June to mid August, harvest from late August.
When to sow, plant and harvest
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Sow outdoors
Harvest
Timed for a typical UK garden (last frost mid-April). The app uses your own town's frost dates.
Growing Mooli (Daikon): what it needs
- Light
- Full sun · 6+ hours a day
- Watering
- Water steadily — dry spells make them woody and hot
- Soil
- Fertile, well-drained soil
- Spacing
- 15 cm, rows 30 cm apart
- In pots
- Best in the ground
- Feeding
- A general feed before sowing or planting
- Harvest
- About 60 days from sowing
- Hardiness
- USDA zones 3–9
- Difficulty
- Easy
Step by step
- Late June – mid August · 11 weeks after the last spring frost
Sow Seeds Outdoors
Sow thinly in drills where they are to grow. Sow 2 cm deep in deep, stone-free soil.
- 3–7 days after “Sow Seeds Outdoors” · Early July
Check Germination
Seedlings should appear in 3–7 days. If sown outdoors, thin to 15 cm, rows 30 cm apart apart when big enough to handle.
- 53–74 days after “Check Germination” · Late August – mid September
Start Harvesting
Lift when 25–35 cm long. They stand in the ground until hard frost.
- 60–90 days after “Start Harvesting” · Late October – late November
Finish and Clear
Clear the remains to the compost heap once cropping ends.
