Chicorium intybus Same genus, but a species apart from endive, the chicories are more colorful and cold hardy, slower growing, thicker leafed, and less curly than most endives. Can be used as a cutting green, but beautiful pigments, crunchy texture, and complex flavors don’t fully manifest until maturity. Best flavor is always in cold weather. Seeded out plants are favored bird feeders. Chicory/radicchio seems to finally be making inroads on the American salad plate thanks to some very hardheaded promoters, farmers and chefs who just won't stop offering it to customers. Seeds Per Packet: 500 Seeds Per Ounce: 14,000
Wild Garden II This is a restart of our Wild Garden Chicory Mix, created by growing a mixture of 11 chicory varieties to seed together. This second incantation of the Wild Garden Chicory Mix is comprised of the original WGS population, the original Italian varieties, and the varietal hybrids, many of which are striking in form and pigmentation, all of them delicious and unique as an autumn/winter salad mix. Add ... pricing and more
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Palla Rossa This is a really good OP variety for spring planted red raddichio, making a high percentage of well-wrapped dense heads. Also works well for normal autumn production from July plantings. Way more uniformity than we’ve found in other classic OPs. pricing and more
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Early Treviso The tapered hearts of this Italian provincial chicory make the most beautiful salads you can plate. Pure white midribs with burgundy red exteriors and crimson internal leaves, shorter and broader than leaves of Late Treviso. This is a new selection and production of this variety to correct for a seed cleaning error in the previous lot. pricing and more
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Castelfranco Franchi This is a select strain from the Italian seedhouse Franchi. In last year’s OSA chicory trial hosted by GTF, we thought this was the most uniform and reliably heading Castelfranco type. Plant seeds June through September, for harvests from the first of autumn through December. Transforms fall salad. pricing and more
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