Radish

Radish

Type	Crop
Season	Summer
Seed	Radish Seeds
Growth Time	6 days
Sell Price	90g

The Radish is a quick, cheap Summer vegetable that fits neatly between bigger crops. It ripens in under a week, so a single tile can give several harvests in one Summer. Raw sales leave a modest profit, and pickling a radish more than doubles its value. The Radish is also an ingredient in Radish Salad and Red Plate, and Red Plate is one of Penny's favourite gifts. Most villagers like it, which makes it a handy everyday gift as well.

The in-game description reads: A crisp and refreshing root vegetable with hints of pepper when eaten raw.

Growing

Pierre's General Store sells Radish Seeds in Summer. The seeds are cheap, so a large field is affordable even in the first Summer.

The plant does not regrow, and each harvest needs a new seed. A seed planted on the first day of Summer is ready within the first week. Replanting on each harvest day fits four rounds into a single season. That short cycle also makes the Radish a good filler for tiles that would otherwise sit empty for a week. It fits neatly between the end of one crop and the start of another.

Speed-Gro shortens the wait and can make room for an extra round late in Summer. Quality Fertiliser raises the share of silver and gold radishes, which is worth it for raw sales.

Prices

A raw Radish sells for a little more than twice its seed price, so each round of radishes leaves a small but steady profit. Silver, gold and iridium radishes sell for a quarter, a half and double the base price more. The Tiller profession adds 10% to every raw sale.

As a vegetable, the Radish can go into a Keg as Radish Juice or into a Preserves Jar as pickles. For a cheap vegetable like this the jar is the clear winner. Pickled Radish is worth more than the juice, and the jar finishes far sooner than a Keg does. The Artisan profession adds 40% to both. Machines ignore the quality of the input, so normal radishes are the ones to pickle.

Sell prices by quality, with the bonus from each profession.

Quality	Price	Tiller (+10%)
Normal	90g	99g
Silver	112g	123g
Gold	135g	148g
Iridium	180g	198g

Uses

Cooking one Radish with one Oil and one Vinegar makes Radish Salad. The Queen of Sauce teaches the recipe on television in the first Spring, so it is often known well before the first radish is harvested.

Cooking one Radish with one Red Cabbage makes Red Plate. Emily sends the recipe by mail once she is a close friend. Penny loves Red Plate, which makes it one of the stronger gifts for her. Pierre's only sells Red Cabbage seeds from the second year, so Red Plate is usually a Year 2 dish.

At the dye pots in Emily's and Haley's house, the Radish counts as a red dye.

Cooking

Cooking Radish with the other ingredients below makes these dishes.

Dish	Image	Ingredients
Radish Salad		Oil (1), Vinegar (1), Radish (1)
Red Plate		Red Cabbage (1), Radish (1)

Gifts

Most villagers like the Radish, as they like most vegetables. Abigail, Haley, Jas, Sam and Vincent dislike it. It is a filler gift. Turning radishes into Red Plate gives a far better gift for Penny.

The Traveling Cart sometimes sells radishes, always at several times their value, so growing them is the only sensible way to stock up for recipes.

All Crops

Every crop, with its season, growth time and normal-quality sell price.

Crop	Season	Growth	Price
Blue Jazz	Spring	7 days	50g
Carrot	Spring	3 days	35g
Cauliflower	Spring	12 days	175g
Garlic	Spring	4 days	60g
Green Bean	Spring	10 days	40g
Kale	Spring	6 days	110g
Parsnip	Spring	4 days	35g
Potato	Spring	6 days	80g
Rhubarb	Spring	13 days	220g
Strawberry	Spring	8 days	120g
Tulip	Spring	6 days	30g
Unmilled Rice	Spring	-	-
Ancient Fruit	Spring, Summer, Fall	28 days	550g
Tea Leaves	Spring, Summer, Fall	20 days	-
Blueberry	Summer	13 days	50g
Hops	Summer	11 days	25g
Hot Pepper	Summer	5 days	40g
Melon	Summer	12 days	250g
Poppy	Summer	7 days	140g
Radish	Summer	6 days	90g
Red Cabbage	Summer	9 days	260g
Starfruit	Summer	13 days	750g
Summer Spangle	Summer	8 days	90g
Summer Squash	Summer	6 days	-
Tomato	Summer	11 days	60g
Corn	Summer, Fall	14 days	50g
Sunflower	Summer, Fall	8 days	80g
Wheat	Summer, Fall	4 days	25g
Amaranth	Fall	7 days	150g
Artichoke	Fall	8 days	160g
Beet	Fall	6 days	100g
Bok Choy	Fall	4 days	80g
Cranberries	Fall	7 days	-
Eggplant	Fall	5 days	60g
Fairy Rose	Fall	12 days	-
Pumpkin	Fall	13 days	320g
Sweet Gem Berry	Fall	24 days	-
Yam	Fall	10 days	160g
Powdermelon	Winter	-	60g
Broccoli	-	-	-
Cactus Fruit	-	-	75g
Grape	-	-	80g
Pineapple	-	-	-
Qi Fruit	-	-	-
Taro Root	-	10 days	100g