Chicory Seed
Chicory is very hardy, and quite versatile – it can be boiled, sautéed or used raw in salads for extra colour and flavour. It is best grown as a cool-weather crop, as it can get bitter in hot conditions, so it is often sown quite late for harvest in autumn and winter.
‘Romanesca Cutting’ Salad Endive
A non heading oakleaf type, this Italian endive was bred to be used in salads. Only very slightly bitter as long as weather is cool, and excellent grown overwinter in a polytunnel or greenhouse. This is very good shredded and drizzled with balsamic vinegar under a pile of sliced beetroot.
Especially useful sown in autumn for overwinter salads.
hundreds seed £1.72Sowing Information
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Luisa Chicory - NEW
A very pretty mild salad chicory that starts out upright but later makes a head, with red-tinged flecks and edges to the leaves.
Nice addition to salads, sow in summer for harvest in autumn.
600 seed £1.29Sowing Information
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Suglarloaf Chicory
There's been a recent resurgence in popularity for chicory as a salad ingredient, thanks to very mild varieties such as this one, which makes an upright cylindrical head. The pale green leaves are crisp and juicy, and as the name suggests, much less bitter than normal chicory. In Italy it is also steamed or boiled and used as a green vegetable as well as a salad.
A great winter salad addition.
500 seed £1.69Sowing Information
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