Chicory

Chicory is used as a bitter flavouring to autumn and spring salads – add tomatoes or sweet dressing to reduce bitterness.

Sowing chicory seeds

You can start in March, sowing seeds into modules to grow in a greenhouse. Or sow the seeds of 'radicchio' types of chicory outdoors, directly into well-prepared soil from late spring through the summer. Sow seeds 1.5cm deep and either so broadcast or in rows 30cm apart and thin seedlings later.