Oh, lettuce. It beefs up salads and adds a final ... These compact heads—which are a type of leaf chicory (as opposed to root chicory)—pack a lot of flavor and crunch. It’s worth noting ...

She adds: ‘The leaves can be harvested as you would cos or romaine lettuce by cutting the head.’ Chicory is a biennial plant, but commonly grown as an annual plant in vegetable gardens.

Chicories, often called radicchio and known for bitterness, are often paired with bacon/pancetta and winter citrus in salads.

Carrots, beans, cucumbers, squash, potatoes and onions are also winners in the vegetable garden. With the wide variety of ...

Chicory is available throughout the winter months. Choose chicory with crisp, fresh-looking leaves that are springy to the touch and tightly packed; there should be no sign of insect damage.

There are different varieties of radicchio from the large round lettuce-shaped radicchio chioggia to the slender stalky treviso. Most common in the UK is red chicory, an endive-shaped small radicchio.

But while witlof is less well-known in Australia, it’s a staple winter lettuce in the Netherlands ... Witlof comes from the Chicory plant and its first leaves are tough and extremely bitter.