Chicory

[Diana]

What's the difference between sugar loaf + witloof types of chicory please?

Can you use both to force?

[Diana]

[Gadfium]

According to Hessayon:

Witloof - traditional forcing variety, good and reliable, but really needs forcing under 8" peat or soil layer to keep the chicons tightly folded.

Sugar Loaf - Pain de Sucre in some catalogues - the traditional non-forcing variety.

However I've no practical experience of Chicory growing (I've just been asked to try some next year)... and have been poring over the vast assortment available in the 'Seeds of Italy' brochure, in bewilderment.

:)

[Diana]

Thanks Gadfium...and that SofI site needs a warning on it - so much to choose from + you get so many seeds :o