Endive Growing Guide: Planting, Care & Harvest

Cichorium endivia

Growing calendar

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

Guides

• How to Sow Endive: Timing, Depth and Spacing for Frisee and Escarole
• Endive Care: Watering, Feeding and Keeping the Heart Sound
• Blanching Endive: How to Turn a Bitter Head Pale and Sweet
• Endive Growing Schedule: From Midsummer Sowing to Winter Salad
• Endive Pests and Diseases: Slugs in the Heart and Rot Under the Cover
• When and How to Harvest Endive Without Losing the Heart

Pests and diseases (3)

Problems recorded for this plant, most serious first.

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