I bought some chicory seeds in France last year, threw them in, and theyve come up nicely into little plants. Trouble is, Im not sure what to do with them - I believe they need tieing round with string or something to keep them blanched inside,but at what point does one do that, and how exactly? There are some instructions in French on the packet but theyre beyond me! Any advice appreciated....
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Just getting my head round this myself. Apparently there are three types of chicory; radicchio, sugar loaf and witloof. Witloof is the one you blanch. The other two can be grown close together and treated as cut and come again or baby leaves or can be grown farther apart and overwintered like cabbage. And slugs hate them
We were given some French pumpkin seed packets a couple of years ago and muddled through with a dictionary and experimentation.
Good luck!
TGR
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Originally posted by trebellangeminired View PostWitloof is the one you blanch.
Don't throw them on the compost the blooming things are like horseradish... keep resprouting. Keep coming up in the carrot bed too where i must have missed a couple of roots
Originally posted by trebellangeminired View PostAnd slugs hate themLast edited by Paulottie; 18-06-2008, 02:26 PM.
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Reply to Heated mat for Tom's and chilliesby raryI use a mix of six scoops of compost three scoops of sand/grit and two scoops of perlite,the quantity is unimportant as long as the ratio is the same, if for seeds I use this mix, if I am potting on I add some blood, fish and bone, along with a small quantity of chicken manure pellets
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