Seeds Endive Lettuce Yellow Heart Curly Frisee Chicory for Salad Vegetable Garden Heirloom for Planting Non GMO

Seeds Endive Lettuce Yellow Heart Curly Frisee Chicory for Salad Vegetable Garden Heirloom for Planting Non GMO

Package includes about 700 seeds Instructions in English are included Season of Interest: Spring, Summer, Autumn USDA Hardiness Zone: 3-11 Species: Cichorium endivia; Germanation: 90-95%

It looks like lettuce, but sure doesn’t taste like lettuce. Endive (Cichorium endivia) and, its cousin, escarole, are distinct tasting greens popular in Europe, but gaining in notoriety in our country. Endive has deeply cut, curly leaves, while escarole has broad, smooth-leaves. Both form loose heads with tender white leaves and stems in the center.
The greens can be used like lettuce in salads or cooked in soups and stews.

Instructions how to grow Endive:
Like lettuce, endive is a cool season crop and grows best with temperatures in the 60Fs. It’s best to plant endive 3 weeks before your last frost date — April and May. Grow a fall crop sowing seeds or transplants in late summer for an autumn harvest. To get a jump on the season you can also start seedlings indoors 3- to 4-weeks before your planting date. Endive grows best in full sun. It can tolerate only 2- to 3-hours of sun a day and still produce an edible plant, but the heads won’t be as well formed. It needs a well-drained, moist soil. If growing on heavy soils, consider planting on an 8-inch tall and 3-foot wide, raised bed. Amend the soil with compost and sow seeds one inch apart in rows spaced 18 inches apart. Transplant seedlings to 7- to 8-inches apart in rows. I like to cover the small seeds with sand or potting soil to keep them consistently moist so they germinate well. Once the seeds germinate, thin. Use the thinnings in salads. Keep thinning until the heads are spaced 7 inches apart in the rows. Keep the beds well watered. Pick young leaves as baby greens when they’re at least 2-inches long. Pick young heads about 40- to 50-days after planting by harvesting the young outer leaves.