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Endive, Full Heart Batavian Seeds
Cichorium endivia
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Grow your own delicious, nutrient-rich endive with our Full Heart Batavian seeds.
This escarole type of endive has dark green leaves that are broad, coarse and crumpled in appearance but not curly. Popular as an addition to any salad or may be cooked as greens. Harvest as you would lettuce by cutting them just below the lower leaves. They will withstand a touch of frost but not a hard freeze.
- SKU: 101263
- Common Name: Endive
- Botanical Name: Cichorium endivia
Growing Information
Grows
Best In:
Full Sun
Days to
Germination:
10 - 14 days
Water
Needs:
Average 2.5-5 cm (1-2") per week
Days to
Maturity:
80 - 85 days
Key Features
- Plant Type: Vegetable
- Plant Lifecycle: Annual
- Fill Weight (grams): 1 g
- Approximate Seed Count: 800-850
- Characteristics: Frost sensitive
- Planting Method: Direct Sow
- Color: Green
- Water Needs: Average 2.5-5 cm (1-2") per week
- Landscape Use: Edible Garden
- Flavor: Sharp taste
- Preparation Ideas: Eat like other greens, either fresh as part of a green salad. Saute or chop and add to soups and stews.
- Awards: All America Selections (AAS)
Instructions
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Growing Instructions:
- Planting Depth: 1.3 cm (1/2")
- Seed Spacing: 2.5 cm (1")
- Plant Spacing: 20 cm (8")
- Instructions for Nutrient Care: Feed plants SUPERthrive once per week. Mix 1.2 ml (1/4 tsp) per 4L (1 gallon) of water in a watering can and apply solution to the base of the plants.
Endive seeds should be sown directly into the garden when the soil is warm and all danger of frost is passed. Optimum soil temperature (not air temperature) should be 5-27°C (40-81°F) for seeds to germinate. Planting at a lower temperature will delay germination. Space seeds and plant to the depth indicated below. Press seeds into the soil to ensure good contact and cover with 1.3 cm (1/2") of soil. After planting, water seeds with a gentle mist or shower. It is critical to keep the soil consistently moist, but not soggy during germination. When your seedlings reach a height of a few centimetres (inches) and have developed 2 or 3 pairs of leaves, it is important to thin them out, according to the plant spacing indicated below. Do not allow the soil to become dry, as young plants have underdeveloped roots and can quickly dehydrate, particularly in windy conditions.
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Suggestions
Growing Suggestions:
- Tolerates light shade and light frosts.
- Endive can be bothered with bolting, which occurs when a plant prematurely flowers and goes to seed. This can be caused when the plant is exposed to a period of extreme weather such as heat. Avoid sowing seed in very hot weather and water plants regularly and deeply to prevent heat stress.
- Endive can be harvested either as a 'cut and come again' crop for salad leaves in as little as a month by pinching off the outer leaves, leaving some on the plant for future growth. Or left to mature into a head by cutting the head at ground level.
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