Chicory Growing Guide: Planting, Care & Harvest

Cichorium intybus

Growing calendar

Typical timing for central Japan (Kanto region). Shift it for your own climate, and record your actual dates.

Guides

• How to Sow Chicory: Timing, Depth and Spacing for Roots and Heads
• Chicory Care Through Summer and Autumn: Water, Feed and Cold
• Blanching and Forcing Chicory: Growing Pale Sweet Chicons in the Dark
• When to Harvest Chicory: Firm Hearts, Chicons and Cut-and-Come-Again Leaves
• Chicory Year-Round Schedule: Sowing, Heading, Lifting and Winter Forcing
• Chicory Pests and Diseases: Slugs, Aphids, Heart Rot and Forcing Failures

Pests and diseases (0)

Written byYasuGrowing vegetables and fruit in Chiba, Japan, and building Gadenin. Corrections are welcome. 15 years of growing.