How to Grow Endive Instructions for Growing Endive in Your Vegetable Garden

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Endive is a lovely salad vegetable (annual), with a slightly bitter taste, but that provides a nice bit of texture to a salad plate. Curly endive has a loose head with frilly leaves, and Escarole has broad thick leaves. Being similar to lettuce, endive has the same basic requirements, but is more tolerant of hot weather.

Gardening Tip For Growing Endive: Covering endive with straw for a couple of weeks (just before you harvest), will reduce this vegetable's bitterness. Or you can blanch them by pulling the outside leaves together over the heart of the plant, and tie the tips together (so the inside of the plant is covered by the outside). Leave tied up this way in your garden for 2 weeks before harvesting.