Let us grow these!

Gotta give you three great lettuces that I’m loving, and you’re going to love that there’s still time to plant all of them for both late summer and fall production. First is Italienischer, which, as I understand it, is the English-pronounced German word for an Italian.  That alone makes it intriguing, but its performance in the garden […]

Radicchio Gets Double Sexy

Many years ago I grew an amazing, red-and-green-mottled leaf chicory called Variegata di Castelfranco  (the Variegata meaning variegated, meaning mottled, meaning multi-colored in patches or streaks).  It was a brilliant performer over the winter, but its bitterness definitely needed tempering by winter’s cold.  Now Johnny’s Selected Seeds has released a similar all-season chicory called Bel Fiore (http://www.johnnyseeds.com/p-9021-bel-fiore.aspx) […]