radicchio
Uses:
- culinary – excellent in salads or in risotto as with Milanese recipe
- tends to be bitter when younger and greener
Propagation & cultivation
- Seed – only reliable method – plant in sandy mix and allow lots of direct heat and sunlight and water
- Collect viable seed from flowers stored in paper bag and left to dry out.
- Mulch well with lucerne and feed well with dynamic lifter – however if soil is good structure it is usually ok
- Loves cold or frost burn that increases the colour intensity and taste
- grows green and tall as young plant with heat and then burns back and forms tight balls with cold weather
- few pests aside from slugs and snails
Species and varities I’m growing:
radicchio - Cichorium intybus
The variety I have been growing is ‘Red Orchid’ an Italian heirloom sourced from Wollongong.
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