Organic Endive Seeds for Sprouts and Microgreens

Organic Endive seeds are easy to grow into Microgreens in your kitchen all year. They have the Latin name Cichorium endivia. Endive is also called: Chicory or Escarole.

Vitamins and minerals in Endive

Endive Microgreens is the most nutritious sprout and microgreen you can find. They contain the vitamins: A, B1, B3, B5, B6, B9, C, E, K and the mineralers Potassium, Iron, Calcium, Copper, Zinc, Magnesium, Phosphorus, Selenium, Sodium.

Endive form small plants

Endive may seem to be too small to bother as it is the smallest sprout and microgreen in stock. But what it lacks in size it makes up for in taste and charm. Endive is even more tasty and has the same lovely bitterness that you may know from the fully grown salad.
You can eat the whole plant, but the chewy seed husks are not very tasty and should be rinsed of before you eat the plants.

Taste and use in food

Endive is a small but very nutritious and tasty plant. It is bitter like the fully grown salad. If you wish it to be less bitter, you can place the plants in a lighter spot. Just not in direct sun as that is too hot for the fragile plants. A solution is to place the plants under a grow light bulb for up to 16 hours the last two days before harvest.

I find that the bitterness of these salad plants go especially well with dips or as flavor enhancer in sandwiches, green salads and wraps.

Cultivation time of organic Endive seeds for Microgreens

You can grow your organic Endive seeds into either sprouts or microgreens. If your kitchen temperature is 18-23 ° C / 64-73 ° F, your Endive sprouts should be ready for harvest after 6-7 days of cultivation. At the same temperature, they should have grown to mature microgreens after a total of 12-14 days.

Cultivation device for Endive microgreens

Endive sprouts can grow in any sprouting device. The bigger Endive Microgreens will, however, give the best result in a SproutPearl sprouter or a Hemp mat. This is because these two methods let the plants get plenty of room to grow and ventilation around the plant tops.
See SproutPearl sprouter or See Hemp mat

Microgreens need light and fertilizer

If you grow Microgreens, then the plants need artificial light and extra fertilizer from day 7 of the cultivation. Under MICRO KIT you can find descriptions about the right amount of light and fertilizer for Microgreens when you use each product. Visit Micro Kit

I have also written different blog articles about microgreens. Those may interest you and give you tips for succes.
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Organic Endive Seeds

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Organic Endive Sprouts

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Tips for Organic Endive Seeds for Sprouts and Microgreens

You can grow organic Endive seeds to both sprouts and microgreens in any sprouter in your kitchen all year.

NAMES

Endive sprouts and microgreens are in the bothanical Chicory family. The Latin name for this variety is Cichorium endivia.

TASTE

Endive sprouts have a mildly bitter taste as both sprout and microgreens. The flavour is the same as for the full grown salad.

LOOKS

Endive is a fragile looking little sprout and microgreen. As a mature sprout it is 10 cm long from root tip to leaf top. As a microgreen it is 14 cm long.

NUTRIENTS

Organic Endive for sprouts and microgreens contain the nutrients:
A, B1, B2, B3, B4, B9, C, E, K, Calcium, Iron, Magnesium, Phosphorus, Zinc, Copper, Manganese, Selenium.

EDIBLE PARTS

Endive is a beautiful sprout and microgreen. You can eat the seed hulls, but they are quite bitter and too rich in fibre to be digested. But you can enjoy the roots, stem and leaves.

TIME

Seeds of organic Endive for sprouts take 7-8 days from dry seed to edible sprout. This sprout is quite small, if you grow them to microgreens they gain a little more hight.

How to grow Organic Endive for Sprouts and Microgreens

 

Tips for Organic Endive for Sprouts and Microgreens

 

SOIL SCENT

Organic Endive have a thick, grainy seed hull. This hull tend to get a slightly soil like scent, when they are wet.

The scent has no effect on the health of your sprouts or microgreens.

 The soil like scent will dissapear when you rinse away the hulls just before you eat the plants.

SMALL SPROUT

Endive is a fragile looking, little sprout.

It is the smallest among your sprouts, but it has a lovely taste like mature Endive salad.

This means that this small, elegant sprout is great for topping on any dish where the bitter taste is suitable.

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