Cichorium endivia
Endive
Common names: Endive salad, Winter endive
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Description
The endive is a typical autumn and winter salad with serrated or bushy leaves and a pleasantly bitter flavor. While spring and summer salads are long gone, it still provides crisp, slightly bitter green until late November, raw or lightly sautéed.
Care instructions
Sow in June for an autumn harvest and keep the soil consistently moist. To mellow the bitterness, loosely bundle the heads one to two weeks before harvest or cover them, this bleaches the heart and makes it gentler and milder. It tolerates light frosts; for harsher frost, protect with fleece or harvest beforehand.
Soil & site
Soil pH
Soil type
humus-rich, loamy, well-drained, nutrient-rich
Feeding
Medium feeder
Months
Apr–Jun
Propagation
Methods
- From seed
Companion planting
Good neighbors
carrot family (Apiaceae)
Calendula and Tagetes next to carrots keep the carrot fly away with their scent.
For example celery rootDillParsleyCarrot fennelCorianderCelery (Stalk Celery) and 18 more species in the catalogue
Source: classic companion planting (DACH-Gartenpraxis)
Rather not
nightshade family (Solanaceae)
Sunflowers release substances into the soil that inhibit potato tuber growth, and they also compete for water and nutrients.
For example PotatoTomatoSweet pepperCocktail tomatoEggplantCape gooseberry and 9 more species in the catalogue
Source: basic crop-rotation rule
Companion planting is partly traditional gardening lore. Where the reason is known, it is given.
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