Chicory
Each year we trial a wide range of chicory varieties to identify those that are easiest to grow and have the best flavor. Johnny's carries the most extensive line of chicories available for intriguing salad mix options for all markets. Some varieties are available in pelleted seed, for easier planting.
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Excellent uniformity and high yield potential for summer harvests.
Now available pelleted! Excellent uniformity and high yield potential for summer harvests. Conventional seed with NOP-compliant pelleting.
65 Days
New
Upright deep maroon radicchio, very attractive and impressively early.
Now available organic! Upright deep maroon radicchio.
66 Days
New
New
Fancy blanched leaves for frisée salad mixes.
Out of Stock
New! Fancy blanched leaves for salad mixes.
48 Days
New
Fancy blanched leaves for salad mixes.
Out of Stock
New! Fancy blanched leaves for salad mixes. Organic seed with NOP-compliant pelleting.
48 Days
Fall and winter-harvest radicchio; quality enhanced by cool weather.
Organic radicchio for fall and winter harvest.
65 Days
Narrow, frilly, blanched leaves for salad mix, often called "frisée."
Narrow, frilly, blanched leaves for salad mix.
42 Days
Johnny's Exclusive
Tender and uniform Italian dandelion, for "cut and come again" harvest.
Tender and uniform Italian dandelion.
48 Days
Best-performing — and one of the most attractive — escaroles.
Best performing escarole.
50 Days
Spotted heads for year-round harvest, translates as "beautiful flower."
Spotted heads for year-round harvest.
60 Days
Extra early radicchio with uniform, smaller-sized heads.
Extra early radicchio.
55 Days
Beautiful red stems and midribs for vibrant contrast in salad mix.
Adds beautiful red color to salad mix.
35 baby; 56 full size
Early escarole, more compact, with darker-green leaves than Natacha.
Early organic escarole.
45 Days
Light green baby leaf, heat and cold tolerant for growing year-round.
Light green baby leaf.
35 baby
Traditional Belgian endive with white (pale yellow) chicons.
Traditional Belgian endive; white (pale yellow) chicons.
115 for root
Fall and winter-harvest radicchio; quality enhanced by cool weather.
Radicchio for fall and winter harvest.
65 Days
Light green Romaine-like heads.
Light green, romaine-like heads.
68 Days
Upright deep maroon radicchio, very attractive and impressively early.
Upright deep maroon radicchio.
66 Days