Chicory Seeds
Growing suggestions for chicory seeds
Sow chicory seeds in late spring to mid summer in situ; space rows 30cm apart. Thin out to about 30cm. Or sow in modules/ trays and transplant to get best results.
Useful for intercropping, as tolerates light shade from overhanging plants. Cut heads from late summer until October; protect plants when overwintered outdoors.
Chicory growing calendar
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Crop facts
Chicory developed from a common wild plant of Europe, western Asia, and Africa. It was known to the Romans who ate it as a vegetable or in salads, however modern cultivation of the plant began in the fifteenth century in Italy. On the Continent, Chicory is much cultivated, not only as a salad and vegetable, but also for fodder and more especially for the sake of its root, which roasted and ground, gets made into a coffee alternative.
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Chicory – Pain De Sucre (Organic)
£1.60 – £5.95 Select optionsChicory – Pain De Sucre (Organic)
Mild tasting green leaves that form dense, conical heads; alternative to winter lettuce.. This is a more mild tasting chicory that is a superb substitute for lettuce in the winter. Indeed, this is a common practice in several rural parts of France and no doubt elsewhere, too. It can produce very large heads, with a tender green exterior and golden yellow hearts that have a real sweetness to them, hence the name!
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Chicory – Palla Rossa (Organic)
£1.60 Add to basketChicory – Palla Rossa (Organic)
Radicchio type, forming dense heads of dark red and white colour. Palla Rossa – aka ‘Red Ball’ – is another excellent chicory from the North-East of Italy around Venice. It is a radicchio, with wonderful vivid colours and sharp differentiation and is usually left to grow to form mature, dense heads. It is also very flavoursome and can well be eaten raw or cooked.
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Chicory – Radicchio ‘506 TT’ (Organic)
£2.46 Add to basketChicory – Radicchio ‘506 TT’ (Organic)
Fantastic modern Palla Rossa type radicchio forming large round heads.
This is a wonderful new Radicchio variety much celebrated by market gardeners due to the high consistency of its heads which can be harvested from September until December. The leaves can be eaten raw as a delicious addition to winter salads, or they can be sliced and baked with olive oil and balsamic. (Other recipes are available too)
(Approximate seed count – 150)
£2.46
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