💡Temperature: Endive lettuce 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: To harvest the tender center leaves at the heart of the plant, cut directly at the base of the leaf and collect. Outer leaves might be bitter but cooking or blanching can reduce bitterness.
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.
Once mature, the inner leaves will appear blanched from lack of light. These inner leaves are very tender and delicious without any bitter flavor. Endive is low in calories and high in vitamin K.
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 sweeter. Cook or blanch mature outer leaves to reduce bitterness.
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