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Chicory

Chicory is popular in mediterranean regions, used like lettuce to make beautiful, tasty salads, and are good cooked. Most should be sown in late summer to mature into the cold weather. Rich, moist soil with lots of organic matter is ideal.
Mixed Chicory
Mixed Chicory
Ideal for intercropping during the Summer months, this blend of seeds includes a variety of colours, shapes and sizes that will grow quickly and are resistant to pests.

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A Grumolo Verde
A Grumolo Verde
Attractive small, dark green rosette shaped heads and small hearts for salads if grown to maturity or grown as 'cut and come again'. Sow March and October to harvest June to November,
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A Radici di Chiavari
A Radici di Chiavari
A hardy perennial with blue flowers and a long cylindrical edible root. Can be roasted and ground for caffeine-free chicory coffee with a semi-sweet caramel flavour and can be blended with ground coffee to enhance its flavour.
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Barba di Capuccino
Barba di Capuccino
This variety is called 'Cappuccini Monks Beard'. A green leaf type for cooking or for salads. Long thin stems. Leaves have serrated edges.
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Bianca di Milano
Bianca di Milano
Heirloom tender sweet variety also known as The Sugarloaf in Italy. Large tightly packed upright green heads look rather like romaine lettuces. Either use as 'cut and come again' when young, or leave to mature.
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Biondissima di Trieste
Biondissima di Trieste
Also known as "Zuccherina di Trieste". Flat leaved cutting variety of chicory for salads - forms a small rosette of thick green leaves which are round, smooth and tender with a mild flavour.
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Catalogna Brindisina
Catalogna Brindisina
Catalogna Brindisina has thick stems (almost a bulb) and tiny leaves. Sweet and delicate taste.
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Catalogna Gigante di Chioggia
Catalogna Gigante di Chioggia
The leaves are very long and cut. The ribs are long, thick and juicy. This variety is rather bitter.
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Catalogna Puntarelle a Foglia Stretta
Catalogna Puntarelle a Foglia Stretta
Upright, good sized head, white stalk and very long smooth green leaves. Popular in Italy, hardy and excellent for early spring greens, great cooked like asparagus. Sow Apr-end Aug.
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Catalogna Puntarelle di Galatina
Catalogna Puntarelle di Galatina
Similar to the wild chicory, but upright with long stems and small jagged leaves. Large heads with long indented leaves dark green with pronounced white ribs. Sow mid March to mid August and harvest mid July to the end of November.
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Frastagliata
Frastagliata
This variety looks like dandelion. The green leaves are many, long, stif and very cut. The white stems are very thin. It can be sown from April to June.
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Pan di Zucchero
Pan di Zucchero
A 'Sugarloaf' upright green variety with compact conical heads, ideal for shredding in salads. Easy to grow and used widely all over Italy.
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Rossa di Treviso
Rossa di Treviso
A beautiful long slender-leaved variety which is green in the summer. With the onset of cool weather, the cone-shaped heads turn a bright red with pure white central ribbing and leaf veins.
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Rossa di Verona a Palla
Rossa di Verona a Palla
The plants form a round compact rosette with heart-shaped deep red leaves, and a solid heart over winter. It is an excellent red radicchio for northern areas as it is very cold resistant.
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Selvatica da Campo
Selvatica da Campo
'Wild Chicory of the Fields'. Wonderful original wild chicory. A very hard to find variety from Italy.Open, splaying head, with spindely leaves. Sow May-end Aug and harvest Sep-end Apr.
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Spadona da Taglio
Spadona da Taglio
Fast growing plants with long leaves that are rounded and smooth and a very thin stem. Will regrow after cutting or can be used for succession planting. Withstands frosts.
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Variegata di Castelfranco
Variegata di Castelfranco
The large outer leaves, after forcing, are lemon yellow with light reddish-veins. The heart is round and loose adn marbled of red and white. Also known as "Castelfranco".
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Variegata di Chioggia
Variegata di Chioggia
Also known as "Palla Rossa" or "Rossa di Chioggia". The foliage is green in the summer, turning variegated, red and white, during the coming of the winter. It should be planted in late summer for an autumn and early winter crop.
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Witloof de Bruxelles
Witloof de Bruxelles
Popular variety. Sow from May to the end of September and harvest from mid July the end of November. Can be forced to rival the expensive supermarket varieties.
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