If you have sufficient resources but insufficient time you can go to the garden centre and buy plug plants. Radishes, beetroot, whatever takes your fancy have been propagated for you and sold on for you to put straight into your raised bed or wherever you grow your salads. But if you have time in abundance you can save seed.
It is a fiddly business winnowing out radish seeds from their long narrow pods, rubbing them in the palm of your hand until they fall into an old pharmacy paper bag - the outcome of many visits with my repeat prescriptions. But I am glad to say it works. Last season's seed went down to the allotment in March and now we are eating the first radish of the season, small, round and crunchy. All that remains is to keep sowing successionally and remember to let the last plants of the year flower like mustard.
I am already eyeing the rogue parsnips that survived the winter and wondering if this too will work.
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