Endive Lettuce

Latin name: Cichorium endivia

🌱 Days to Sprout: 5-10

😋 Plant food: after true leaves 

✂️ Thin to: 1 plant per yCube

🍅 Days to Maturity: 48

💡 Light Zone: Minimum

📏 Plant Size: 1 ft

💚 Care Level: Beginner

Endive lettuce is technically a chicory, and it is believed to have originated in Egypt and Indonesia. Endive has been cultivated in Europe since the 16th century.

The green, frizzy leaves grow in a tightly wound rosette shape. Endive is low in calories and high in vitamins K, A, C, and folate. This superfood green supports better digestion, skin health, bone strength, and liver function.

Endive lettuce is great as a salad green to add dimension to the mix. Leaves can be bitter, so many prefer the tender inner leaves at the heart of the plant, as they taste more sweet. Cook or blanch mature outer leaves to reduce bitterness.

💡Temperature: Prefers cooler temperatures (60-70F), and will turn bitter and bolt in higher temperatures.

✂️ Pruning: Check the roots monthly and trim any that are brown or extending past the yPod. To delay bolting, cut yellow-flowering stems as they appear.

🔎 Plant Health: Aphids are a common pest, but you can use our prevention and treatment tricks to keep pests at bay! 

🥬 Harvest: For ongoing harvest, snip the outer leaves just above the base of the plant once they reach 4 inches tall to let the inner leaves continue to grow. Leave 1/3 of the plant if you want it to keep growing. To harvest the full head, wait until it reaches maturity, then harvest from the base.

Our Plant Health & Nutrition Team thoroughly tests each variety we offer to bring you the most flavorful and high-quality plants. We regularly rotate our plant portfolio, so please note, availability varies.