What growing conditions are best suited for Endive?
Endive is grown much like lettuces. It is an ingredient in most mesclun mixes. They need short days and cool temps for good flavor and to avoid bolting. Endive thrives in rich, moist, fertl soil. Sow seeds in the same manner as lettuce making successive sowings every 2 weeks, stopping once the temperatures start to rise. Harvest as soon as leaves are large enough to use or allow heads to mature and cut entire plant at ground level. Q: Please explain the terms open-pollinated, hybrid, and self-pollinating. Thank you. A: Open-pollinated refers to any seed that is not a hybrid. If you are going to save seeds from your harvests, you want to buy open-pollinated. The reason for that is open-pollinated plants grow true-to-type. They will have all the characteristics of their parent plants. Hybrid seeds will not. Also, heirloom varieties are all open-pollinated. The seeds have been collected and saved for generations hence the name heirloom. Hybrid simply means that two different varieties of
