Cichory

Common chicory

Common chicory (Cihorium intybus) is a bushy perennial herb with blue, lavender, or occasionally white flowers. It grows as a wild plant on roadsides in its native Europe, and in North America and Australia, where it has become naturalized. It is 20-100sm tall. There are two kinds of the common chicory – root chicory and leaf chicory.
Root chicory contains up to 20% inulin and is good food for the diabetic people. The root chicory is also used as a coffee substitute.
Leaf chicory is also rich with inulin and fructose.

Useful advices
  • Common chicory Forcing
  • To force the common chicory you can use force-house or a vessel in your basement. The preserved roots have to be 15-20sm long and well shaped top bud. If the soil is dry, you have to wet it. The roots have to be in half dig in the soil the same level together but without touching each other. You have to cover the roots with 25-30sm wet soil, natural fertilizer or sand. For permanent soil humidity you have often to besprinkle with water. The force-house or the vessel has to be covered up.
    In the first week the temperature has to be around 10ºС and later it has to be 15-18ºС.

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