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These plants, a part of the lettuce family called Chicory, have grown wild in Europe for centuries. They all have nutritious, slightly bitter leaves. (Family: Lettuce, Asteraceae). Try a mixed salad of endive, radicchio, escarole with sherry vinaigrette and chopped fennel.
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Broadleaf Batavian Escarole
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Cichorium endiva
These are big, spreading plants with dark green smooth outer leaves and a pale heart that is tender for salads all year long. Matures in 85 days. (open pollinated seeds)
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Catalogna frastagliata
It's not a dandelion, but chicory! Fast growing, upright, dark-green notched leaves stand in thick bunches. Cut the plant at any height and it will re-grow again. Steamed like spinach, they have a pleasant "wild" flavour. Raw, they add bite to salad. May bolt mid-summer from spring planting. Winter-hardy. Matures in 65 days. (open pollinated seeds)
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Neos Endive
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| Cichorium endiva
Neos Endive grows into impressive flat rosettes 28-30cm (11-12") across of deeply-cut, frilly, small dark-green leaves with a cluster of white leaves in the centre. Regular picking does not slow them down. Matures in 75 days. (open pollinated seeds)
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$ 2.99 CA |
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This reliable radicchio forms a gorgeous, firm, round, dark-red and white head which appears like a jewel when you pull aside the tattered clump of outside green leaves. With a unique and tangy taste, it adds flavour, colour, and crisp texture to salads. It can be planted for summer or fall harvest. Matures in 85 days. (open pollinated seeds)
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Similar to Italian Dandelion, Red Dandelion has bright red stems and mid veins in dark green leaves. Baby leaves look great in salads, in bunches at the market, and in the winter garden. Some plants may be all green. Matures in 65 days. (open pollinated seeds)
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This green radicchio forms upright heads like a Romaine lettuce with big outer leaves wrapping a pale heart. The slightly bitter taste really picks up salads. Roots may sprout again in the spring for a second harvest with a tighter head. Best for fall harvest. Matures in 65 days. (open pollinated seeds)
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| Cichorium endiva
Finely-cut leaves, lacier than Neos, surround cream-coloured hearts. Close planting increases blanching. Use leaves in salads to add just the right amount of zing or harvest the whole head to cook like spinach. TFM is sweeter than Neos in warm weather. Matures in 65 days. (open pollinated seeds)
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