Large, beautiful.
Big, heavy heads with abundant, tender leaves, and creamy, blanched hearts. Remarkable tolerance to bolting, tipburn, and resistance to bottom rot, even in hot weather. Prettiest and best performing of the many escaroles. Larger and brighter green than Nataly, which it replaced. Avg. 15,800 seeds/oz. Packet: 200 seeds.
Days to Maturity or Bloom: 50
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Growing Information:
Chicory, Endive
CULTURE: Generally, see "Lettuce". Spacing closely at 8-10" encourages these varieties' self-blanching characteristics.
DAYS TO MATURITY: Baby leaf maturities are from direct seeding. Other maturities listed are from transplant; add about 10 days if direct seeding.
AVG. DIRECT SEEDING RATE: 160'/1M; 830'/5M; 4,150'/25M; 175M/acre at 6 seeds/ft. in rows 18" apart. For salad mix (harvest at 4-5 weeks) sow in 2-4" wide bands, 6 seeds/in., 13'/1M; 65'/5M; 250'/oz.; 4,000'/lb.
TRANSPLANTS: Avg. 500 plants/M (2 seeds per cell, thinned to one seedling).
SEED SPECS: SEEDS/OZ.: Endive and Escarole: 15,000-21,600 (avg. 19,000).
PACKET: 200 seeds sows 33' full size 2 1/2' baby leaf.
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