Product Description
Fine de Louviers Chicory
3,78 $
Ancient variety with very finely chiseled leaves. This chicory’s crunchy leaves form a rosette with a tight and dense self-blanching core. It can be eaten raw, in salads, or cooked. Easy to grow, it adapts well to various environments.
Package: 200 seeds
Photo credit: www.semaille.com
84 in stock
Email to a friendDescription
We grow the vast majority of our seeds on our farm. However, when a culture fails or when we are out of stock, we reach out to other seed farms to refill our inventory and offer you more choice. This variety is one of those.
BOTANICAL INFORMATION
Latin name : Cichorium Endivia
Common names : Chicory
French : Endive à fines côtes, Frisée, Endive frisée
Family : Asteraceae
DESCRIPTIVE INFORMATION
Plant type : Biennial
Habit : Rosette
Height : 40 cm
Width : 25 cm
CULTURAL INFORMATION
Days to maturity : 85 days
Sowing : Directly outside in the spring
Depth : Surface
Germination : 5-7 days
Soil : Any
Exposure : Part-shade to sunny
Plant spacing : 30-40 cm
Row spacing : 30 cm
Watering : Normal
Care and other considerations : Not demanding
Be the first to review “Fine de Louviers Chicory”
Retour et échange
Pour le retour d'un produit acheté: si votre produit ne vous satisfait pas ou si vous pensez qu'il y a une erreur dans votre commande, n'hésitez pas à nous contacter en tout temps par courriel.- Nous nous engageons à remplacer tout sachet de semences qui poserait problème.
- La germination ne dépend pas uniquement de la qualité de nos semences, mais nous sommes prêts à vous conseiller si vous éprouvez des problèmes.
Si malgré tout vous désirez retourner votre colis:
Vous pouvez le faire à l'adresse suivante: 1039 Legendre Est, Montréal, Qc. H2M 2N2 Incluez votre facture. Pour plus d'information, visitezRelated Products
The leaves are a shimmery dark green, large, thick, and rounded, while the stems are chunky and can range from white to red. Overall, it gives the plant a nice look on top of its good taste. For this reason it is sometimes used purely as an ornamental plant. But nothing stops you from enjoying both looks and taste!
Package: 200 seeds
3,78 $
Add to cart 
The ice plant comes from South Africa. Its foliage, which looks covered with frost or dew, is nicely tangy. The leaves can be eaten raw in salads or cooked in butter. Its tiny flowers are dainty and quite unique. Easy to grow, doesn't require much but will be killed by freezing temperatures.
Package: Around 100 seeds
3,78 $
Add to cart 
Romaine lettuce speckled with red. The sweetest of our selection. The Forellenschluss lettuce won the first prize among 900 other lettuce varieties in a 1997 taste contest. Gorgeous and delicious, a charming addition to your plates.
Austrian heirloom. Its name translates as : « speckled like a trout ».
Package : 250 seeds.
3,78 $
Add to cart 
The leaves of this large curly endive grow in a rosette, and have a white midrib.
Chicory is mainly grown for its young leaves, but can also be eaten once mature when its delightful taste gets a spark of bitterness. Crunchy charming leaves.
Can be blanched by covering each plant with an upside-down pot for 2 to 3 weeks. Just make sure to elevate those pots a bit from the ground to provide sufficient air circulation. Can help to reduce bitterness.
3,78 $
Read more 
French sorrel is a perennial that grows into a ground cover that establishes nicely along paths and beds, or on rocky soils. The small leaves of this sorrel variety are light green with occasional silver specks. They taste a little tangy and lemony. They are well-loved by kids, and are delicious in salads, sandwiches or sauces. The leaves can be harvested young in which case they are delicious eaten raw, or later to be cooked like spinach. Once harvested, the leaves can be stored frozen for a long time.
Package: 55 seeds
Photo credit: https://www.andrewsgarden.be/en/exotis-spices-medicinal-plants/rumex-scutatus-silver-leaf-french-sorrel/a-559-13
3,78 $
Add to cart 
Turkish rocket is recognizable by its yellow flowers and its deeply chiseled leaves. This perennial plant is ideal for permaculture projects as it is easy to grow, hardy, edible and melliferous. The pear-shaped flower buds taste a bit like rapini, and the young leaves have a delicious cabbage-like taste. The leaves can also be cooked just like spinach.
Package: 500 seeds
3,78 $
Read more 
This spinach variety is very rare. It comes from a convent, the Congregation of the Sisters of Providence of St. Vincent de Paul in Kingston, ON. These sisters grew over 400 different cultivars of vegetables, fruits, and herbs. They're offered us some treasures that have been grown for over a century. Some of their seed packages were even written using a typewriter. For more information, visit Le Potager d'Antan (in French): https://potagersdantan.com/2011/01/06/lepinard-norfolk/
Package: 130 seeds
3,78 $
Read more 
Grosse Blonde Paresseuse lettuce (Large Lazy Blonde Lettuce).
Mentioned in 1904 by Vilmorin, a French seed saver, this ancient variety grows into a large head with crunchy blond green leaves. It is hardy, and doesn't bolt easily. It gave us a nice harvest this summer.
Package: 200 seeds
This Batavia head lettuce has light green leaves, sprinkled with red dots. They are slightly wavy, reminiscent of a jester costume, which explains the name. They are also crispy and delicious. The plant itself is very hardy, and resistant to bolting. This allows for a longer harvest with delayed planting.
This variety was developed by Frank Morton in Oregon, who made a triple-cross between the “Reine des Glaces”, “Merlot”, and “Flashy Troutback” varieties. It was selected for both its visual and eating qualities.
Package: 200 seeds
3,78 $
Add to cart 
Malabar spinach originally comes from the Malabar Coast, India's southwest coast. Eaten like our spinach, it however grows in very different conditions; it loves heat and light as you might expect from its origin. It also has a quite distinct look, climbing up as it grows more and more leaves for us to harvest all summer long. It is both delicious and gorgeous. Malabar spinach can be grown in the ground or in pots.
Package: 20 seeds
3,78 $
Add to cart 
This hardy perennial can decorate your garden as nicely as your salads, with its striking dark red veins. It is also great with sandwiches, omelettes, quiches, and most other egg-based dishes. Slightly more tangy than common sorrel, bloody dock is the first to show up in the spring.
Package: 35 seeds
3,78 $
Read more 
This lettuce is an ancient variety dating back to the 1700's coming from Austria. It's a spring selection, quickly developing a green-leaved core with red edges. It grows into a dense lettuce head with crunchy and tasty leaves.
Package: 200 seeds
3,78 $
Read more
Reviews
There are no reviews yet.