- Crop & Plant Type:Radish
- Features:Enhanced Root Hair Growth, Improves Soil Structure, Freeze/Thaw Stable, Controls Erosion , Controls Weed
Toro fodder radish is late maturing variety from Columbia Seeds® that forms a long slender tap . The color of the flowers are violet. Toro can also be used to help control nematodes. It has been shown to help reduce Trichodorus and Paratrichodorus nematodes in potato rotations. Toro is commonly used to help break up hard clay pans in soil profile and as a green manure crop. Due to its very late flowering, it is ideally suited as a green manure crop. Toro is not winter hardy and will be damaged by the first frost. Do not let product go to seed. You will need to mow, chemically spray or do some tillage work to prevent seed heads from forming.