Curly Chicory Minerva plants - Cichorium endivia crispum
Curly Chicory Minerva plants - Cichorium endivia crispum
Cichorium endivia crispum Minerva
Curly Endive, Chicory
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Description
The Crisped Chicory Minerva is a large and resistant salad, with green, highly cut, curly and crisped leaves that lay flat around a yellow heart. It is a variety particularly suitable for harvesting in autumn and winter. If possible, 'blanch' the foliage by depriving the plant of light, fifteen days before harvesting, which helps remove some bitterness.
The Crisped Chicory is a vegetable plant that belongs to the Asteraceae family. It has the Latin name Cichorium endivia crispum, and is also known as Endive Chicory, Ribbed Endive, or Crisped Endive, without being a common endive in the usual sense. It comes from the wild Chicory that is naturally found in meadows and roadside edges.
Crisped Chicories have a rosette habit and green, cut and curly leaves. Some varieties need to be temporarily deprived of light to remove any potential bitterness, while others naturally blanch. The Minerva variety should be deprived of light by placing a blanching bell on the chicory 10 to 15 days before harvesting.
They are quite hardy but tolerate winter harshness less than wild chicories. It is therefore advisable, in particularly cold regions, to provide protection such as forcing cloths or tunnels.
In the garden, they thrive in any moderately rich soil, rather moist but well-drained.
Crisped Chicory leaves are mainly consumed raw in salads, but can also be cooked in juice, gratin, with cream, braised or in béchamel sauce.
Chicories are all known for their tonic, purifying and slightly laxative properties.
Harvest: chicories are harvested as needed and as they grow.
Storage: they can be stored for a few days in a cool place after harvesting.
Gardener's tip: Regular hoeing and weeding is recommended, and mulching is advised in case of drought.
Note: Attention, our young plug plants are professional products reserved for experienced gardeners: upon receipt, transplant and store them under cover (veranda, greenhouse, frame...) at a temperature above 14°C (57.2°F) for a few weeks before being installed outdoors once the risk of frost is definitively ruled out.
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To avoid diseases that attack chicory such as powdery mildew or rust, it is important to regularly hoe and weed, and to practice a good crop rotation every 3 to 4 years.
Watering should be generous and frequent. A mulch is beneficial. Frisée chicory is less resistant to frost than wild chicory, so it is better to protect them with a cover or tunnel during winter.
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Hardiness is the lowest winter temperature a plant can endure without suffering serious damage or even dying. However, hardiness is affected by location (a sheltered area, such as a patio), protection (winter cover) and soil type (hardiness is improved by well-drained soil).
In temperate climates, pruning of spring-flowering shrubs (forsythia, spireas, etc.) should be done just after flowering.
Pruning of summer-flowering shrubs (Indian Lilac, Perovskia, etc.) can be done in winter or spring.
In cold regions as well as with frost-sensitive plants, avoid pruning too early when severe frosts may still occur.
The harvesting period indicated on our website applies to countries and regions in USDA zone 8 (France, England, Ireland, the Netherlands).
In colder areas (Scandinavia, Poland, Austria...) fruit and vegetable harvests are likely to be delayed by 3-4 weeks.
In warmer areas (Italy, Spain, Greece, etc.), harvesting will probably take place earlier, depending on weather conditions.
The sowing periods indicated on our website apply to countries and regions within USDA Zone 8 (France, UK, Ireland, Netherlands).
In colder areas (Scandinavia, Poland, Austria...), delay any outdoor sowing by 3-4 weeks, or sow under glass.
In warmer climes (Italy, Spain, Greece, etc.), bring outdoor sowing forward by a few weeks.
The planting period indicated on our website applies to regions in USDA Zone 9a (East Coast and Midlands: Dublin, Wexford, Waterford, Kilkenny, Portlaoise). It will vary depending on where you live:
- On the west coast and in the north-west (Galway, Limerick, Sligo, Donegal, Westport), delay planting by 1 to 2 weeks in spring and bring it forward by 1 to 2 weeks in autumn compared to the dates given, preferably choosing periods without strong winds.
- In the inland hills and plateaus (Wicklow Mountains, Macgillycuddy’s Reeks, Connemara, Killarney), it is best to plant in spring (April–May) or autumn (September–October), avoiding periods of waterlogged soil in winter and strong winds, which pose the main risk to newly planted trees in these areas.
The flowering period indicated on our website applies to regions in USDA Zone 9a, such as the East Coast and Midlands, including Dublin, Wexford, Waterford, Kilkenny and Portlaoise.
This will vary depending on where you live:
- On the west coast and in the northwest (Galway, Limerick, Sligo, Donegal and Westport), it will be delayed by one to two weeks compared to the given dates, due to stronger Atlantic winds and less spring sunshine.
- In the inland hills and plateaus (the Wicklow Mountains, the Macgillycuddy's Reeks, Connemara and Killarney), flowering will be delayed by two to three weeks. Flowering mainly occurs between May and July, with the limiting factors being less frost and more of the excessive humidity, strong winds and lack of sunshine that are characteristic of these areas.
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