Endive Is A Good Winter Salad Crop

Press, Volume CII, Issue 30045, 1 February 1963, Page 6

Endive Is A Good Winter Salad Crop

lhe endive is a salad wop which can be sown during the next few weeks co as to produce salads during wtotor mouths. Bndive is a popular salad in Burope and B map appeal to those people who Wfeto try maethtag new. The plant resembles a very dark green tateuoo in which the leaves are derided and curled, ft Is easy to grow and comes in at a tone when other salads may be in sheet yiprdy A wen drained soil that to weM supplied with organic matter suits this crop beet Seed should be sown to stoi as there to a tendency foe plants to belt when transplanted. Protection may be necessary for the seed as btatte seem to be very food of them. Sow in rows 15-l Sin. apart during February and March. By sowing at fortnightly totervtds a succession can be maintained.

The subsequent seedlings should be thinned to IBn. Keep the ptems growing at all tones. dry weather apply water so th at the plants are not checked, otherwise there to a tendency for them to run to flower.

The endive Should be ready for picking fromMayarxi through June and July. When the ptanta are fully grown and some tone before harvaating, toe outer haves should be drawn up over the centre and tied wito soft statag eo as to btanch the IMs should be done when toe tearec are quite dry otherwise there to a tendency tor toe hear* to rot The biacxtotog should take from 10-14 daqa. Blanched phots do fM* keep very well so it to advisable to blanch only as irany as are immediately include Batavian Broad Lontirf, Geaan Curled and Sated King.