500 radicchios!? wow!
How do you prepare it usually? salad/grilled? Just curious.
Thomas
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Radicchio survives outside in Michigan through the winter. It dies to
the ground but then it restarts the next year. Being a biennial, it
will produce flowers and seeds the next year. The seeds are very
recessed inside the seed pods, they have the shape of an arrow tip, the
color ranging from black to beige. You have to actively break the seed
pod to get the seeds. In Michigan, the seeds are ready by July-august.
they are best planted immediately, young radicchio grows best in
summer. One plant will give you about 1000 seeds (this is one tough
weed). I usually let one plant go to seed to provide a fellow guinea
pig owner with enough seeds for the beasts. I plant about 500
radicchios for the family every summer.