Pancalieri endive

Description

Cichorium endive

A good-yielding, bitter-leafed salad crop. The loose heads are composed of long, deeply-indented leaves with frilly edges. Plants vary between prostrate and semi-prostrate, and are partially self-blanching. Older, larger plants can be cut at ground level for a single harvest. Alternatively, multi-harvests of baby leaves are possible from young plants managed in a cut-and-grow-again system.

Pancalieri is partially self-blanching, though more dependable results can be achieved by laying a dinner plate on top of larger, older plants. Alternatively, the leaves can be bunched together at the top and tied with a string.

The plants are easy to grow outdoors, and we’ve gotten good results from both April and July sowings, for outdoor crops, and from a September sowing for growing overwinter in a polytunnel.

Approx. number of seeds per pack: 400 seeds