your response will dictate my beloved vegetables fate.

[Gevalia]

hello everyone!

im a bit depressed now. earlier today, i woke up to the sound of something huge that fell, and when i rushed to the garden ( which happens to be our roof) i saw that 2 cats pushed my best radish ( the only white icicle i am growing, which already has the bulb). luckily the radish wasnt uprooted, but because of what happened its 2 big leaves were broken ( they were so crisp). the other 2 broad leaves were picked by the stray cats too ( for what reason, i dunno. maybe they were trying to eat the leaves to fight their internal parasites.


as of the moment the radish only has about 6 leaves, most of them are just young leaves.


my questions:

1) since the radish is in the stage of producing the bulb, will the damage stop it from growing the roots?
2) will the radish develop more leaves and stop developing the bulb?
3) will the grown bulb reduce its size? ( maybe the radish will use its stored food to cope with the damages?)
4). or will the radish continue to grow its root even with fewer leaves now?( i read that the more leaves a radish has, the more that it might not develop bulb).


what can i do to remedy the problem? i so love my radish becuase its my only root crop and i worked so hard to have them. its now 26 days old and the harvest is 24 days away ( so i am really expecting a big radish at the end of teh growing process).


thank you for the responses.