{"id":468,"date":"2011-05-25T06:54:43","date_gmt":"2011-05-25T06:54:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chickenfish.cc\/bio\/?p=468"},"modified":"2013-07-01T05:02:32","modified_gmt":"2013-07-01T05:02:32","slug":"radicchio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chickenfish.cc\/bio\/radicchio\/","title":{"rendered":"radicchio"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Uses:<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>culinary &#8211; excellent in salads or in risotto as with Milanese recipe<\/li>\n<li>tends to be bitter when younger and greener<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Propagation &amp; cultivation<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Seed &#8211; only reliable method &#8211; plant in sandy mix and allow lots of direct heat and sunlight and water<\/li>\n<li>Collect viable seed from flowers stored in paper bag and left to dry out.<\/li>\n<li>Mulch well with lucerne and feed well with dynamic lifter type mix &#8211; blood and bone and other manures &#8211; however if soil is good structure it is usually ok to leave it without mulch<\/li>\n<li>Loves cold or frost burn that increases the colour intensity and taste<\/li>\n<li>grows green and tall as young plant with heat and then burns back and forms tight balls with cold weather<\/li>\n<li>few pests aside from slugs and snails<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Species and varities I&#8217;m growing:<\/h3>\n<p>radicchio &#8211;\u00a0<em>Cichorium intybus<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The main variety I have been growing is &#8216;Red Orchid&#8217; an Italian heirloom sourced from Wollongong.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"474\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.chickenfish.cc\/bio\/radicchio\/radicchio2\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.chickenfish.cc\/bio\/wp-content\/media\/radicchio2.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"1000,669\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"radicchio2\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.chickenfish.cc\/bio\/wp-content\/media\/radicchio2-640x428.jpg\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-474\" title=\"radicchio2\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.chickenfish.cc\/bio\/wp-content\/media\/radicchio2-640x428.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"428\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.chickenfish.cc\/bio\/wp-content\/media\/radicchio2-640x428.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.chickenfish.cc\/bio\/wp-content\/media\/radicchio2-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.chickenfish.cc\/bio\/wp-content\/media\/radicchio2.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>But I also grow red stemmed dandelion arrow style, Treviso and Grummolo Verde.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Uses: culinary &#8211; 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