Mix of Chicory Blends – Sugar Loaf, Chioggia, Striolo & Verona

A beautiful and flavorful blend of classic Italian chicories, offering a range of shapes, colors, and tastes. This mix combines the crisp, elongated heads of Sugar Loaf, the round red-and-white striped beauty of Chioggia, the finely serrated elegance of Striolo, and the deep burgundy, compact heads of Verona.

Flavors range from mildly sweet and nutty to pleasantly bittersweet, becoming sweeter after light frost. Perfect for fresh salads, grilled radicchio, braising, or adding bold color and texture to gourmet dishes. A cool-season favorite that brings both visual appeal and rich, complex flavor to the garden and table.

Packet: 9-10 grams of seed

An outstanding selection of a solid heading radicchio with a 4-6” tall, elongated shape. Deep red/purple leaves with broad white mid-ribs are nice and crunchy with the tangy bitterness that radicchio is known for. We loved this variety for our winter CSA, as the tight wrapping on the heads meant that even when outer leaves were damaged from extreme cold, there was still a marketable head just a few leaves down. Also great harvested young as a loose head or for salad mix as cut-and-come-again greens.

Packet: 9-10 grams of seed

This reliable radicchio forms a gorgeous, firm, round, dark-red and white head which appears like a jewel when you pull aside the tattered clump of outer wrapping leaves. With a unique and tangy taste, it adds flavour, colour, and crisp texture to salads.

Palla Rossa Special Chicory Seeds can be planted for summer or fall harvest. Cut the heads at the soil level, and it may regrow.

Packet: 9-10 grams of seed

Sugar Loaf chicory seeds grow like an upright, tightly headed, very large Romaine lettuce. Beneath the outer, pale-green, mild tasting leaves lies a blanched heart of sweet, pale-golden white leaves with extraordinary flavour. Sugar Loaf is perfect for late summer and fall harvests. We recommend pulling off a few of the enormous wrapper leaves and then lying the cylindrical core on its side and slicing across like a loaf of bread. Try a salad of Sugar Loaf with a hot oil dressing and croutons. Officially this endive is an escarole type. It's an old heirloom variety that sometimes goes by its French handle, Pain de Sucre.

The ultimate carrot for winter cultivation and storage. Wide shoulders, dense flesh, and solid carrot flavor make it a preferred variety for processing and great for bulk and/or wholesale as the poundage adds up quickly. Grows well in heavy soil, strong tops and wedge shape make for easy harvest.

Chantenay carrots are short carrots with light orange skin and orange-red colored cores. Chantenay carrots are grown for canned and processed carrots because of their high yield. The carrots can be eaten fresh, frozen, or canned. Chantenay carrots can be eaten raw or cooked, with their taste usually described as sweet and crisp. However, they may become coarse and tough when grown past maturity, specifically in the heat of summer. Like all carrots, Chantenay carrots are high in carotene and fiber.

There are two main types of Chantenay carrot seeds available to gardeners, Red-cored Chantenay or Royal Chantenay.

Red-cored Chantenay carrots have a redder core and blunt tip.

Royal Chantenay carrots have an orange-red core and a tapered tip.

The typical Nai-Pe-Tsai type pak choy, semiupright plant produces thick, white stems and deep green leaves. Good for warm areas as it is heat tolerant. This Chinese non-heading leaf type has clusters of 8 to 12" wide white celery-like stalks with large, nearly round, smooth, glossy leaves. The mild, mustard-y flavor is not bitter. The young leaves make a wonderful addition to soups, noodle dishes, and stir-fry.

Packet: 9-10 grams of seed

Blue Curled Scotch Organic Kale Seeds are hardy and grow in most regions. Blue Curled Scotch Kale is one of the most frost-resistant varieties, which means you can plant them earlier and keep plants in the ground longer. Toss washed kale in smoothies with berries and other sweets for a blast of fiber, antioxidants, and minerals.

Packet: 9-10 grams of seed

Plant is a vigorous short stem with large ribbed leaves. Leaves are darker blue green in colour. Heads are well savoyed and can be harvested by mid October. 

Packet: 9-10 grams of seed