Ground chicory roots/ chicory pins 'Bingo' - bag ± 50 pieces (or ± 7-9 kg)
The best chicory roots to grow the tastiest ground chicory at home yourself! Already chilled!
€13.95 per unit
Product information "Ground chicory roots/ chicory pins 'Bingo' - bag ± 50 pieces (or ± 7-9 kg)"
- Real soil chicory roots
- Already chilled = ready to plant!
- Contains: 50 chicory roots
- Delivered to your home
- Easy to grow yourself, indoors or outdoors!
Grow your own ground chicory with love! 💚
50 beautiful and healthy chicory roots to grow your own ground chicory. The best quality found! ����🥬
1 bag contains 50 already chilled chicory roots. This corresponds to about 7/8 kg of chicory roots.
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📅 Availability
The chicory roots are available from November to early March. After harvesting, they undergo a two-week cold period to guarantee the best quality. So you can table them immediately after receiving them!
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📦 Order & delivery
Booking/ordering by phone or email is unfortunately not possible. As soon as your order is ready for dispatch or collection, you will receive an automatic e-mail (with tracking code if delivery is required).
When ordering, you can choose to have the chicory pens delivered to your home with PostNL or to collect your order from our collection point.
Would you like to pick up the chicory turnips yourself but is Eeklo too far? You can also pick up the chicory roots of Lof & Loof directly from the grower in Deerlijk (near Kortrijk). Please do not order these via our webshop but we would like to direct you to the website of Lof & Loof.
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👩🌾 But how do you grow that delicious ground chicory yourself?
These chicory roots have received 2 weeks of cold shock in professional cold storage. This allows you to table the seedlings immediately upon receipt!
1. Pickling: make a pit in topsoil and arrange the carrots all nicely next to each other.
2. Cover the carrots with a layer of soil of ± 15 cm. Use as poor soil as possible, such as seed and cutting soil, but definitely not fertilizer-enriched potting soil!
You can also reuse the soil from your flower and plant containers, or mix peat under the soil (for a more acidic soil).
3. Chicory should not get any light, otherwise you will grow green beans ;-). As an alternative to soil, you can also use hay, straw or black plastic. As long as no (sun) light reaches the roots... Are you growing in buckets? Then instead of 15 cm of soil above the roots, you can simply place a bucket or black pot. Thanks to our chicory forcing tray , you can also easily grow indoors (e.g. in a basement, storage room...)!
Important to mention is that you should not put the bucket or force-feeder in the kitchen or dining area because of the temperature. Are you growing at more than 18°C? Then the chicory will be forced too much, and you may end up with heads falling open. That would be a shame!
4. Water: the soil in which the chicory roots are standing must be moist. However, do not overdo it with your watering can because too much water is even harmful to the chicory. Are you growing in buckets? Then you can choose to put a bottle of water upside down in the middle of the bucket (cutting out the bottom and thus filling the bottle with water, like the principle of watering tomato plants in the greenhouse)
5. Waiting... The warmer, the sooner you can harvest. Professional growers often use a heating element that brings the soil temperature between 14° and 18°C. At such temperatures, you will have ready-to-eat chicory after only about three weeks. Don't use these heat sources? Then, depending on the temperature, you have to wait several months.
6. Harvesting: cut/break off the head.
7. Enjoy your homegrown ground chicory ;-)
-Help , my chicory roots have a weird smell & look rotten?
- Why are the chicory roots cut off?
That's simple: because they would have an equal height to be easier to table. That way you will also be able to harvest more even heads.
- Can I cut off the green foliage?
The foliage is the green part you see at the top of the root. You can cut off the foliage but always leave 2 cm. Do you take off too much foliage? Then you will damage the growing point and the chicory will form leaves on the side, resulting in no nice closed heads...
- The chicory roots I received are smaller than expected?
If you bought the chicory roots at the start of the season, this is perfectly normal! Often the first chicory roots are still a bit smaller (due to the dry summer). No worries because from a small root can grow an equally beautiful head as from a larger root!
We completely understand your reasoning! But the chicory roots are delivered in a plastic bag to protect them from drying out, especially if you want to keep the chicory roots a little longer before putting them in the table.
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More info?
Click here for our starter guide with our handy tips & tricks!
Did you know that we also sell chicory roots from the Meetjesland? Straight from the land (but not yet refrigerated!). You can find the ground chicory roots Topscore (± 9kg in net bag) here.
Product specifications
| Plant group: | Stem vegetables, Chicory and Redory |
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| Section: | Vegetables, Chicory |
| Contents in pieces: | 50 |
| Weight: | 9.6 kg |
| Contents: | 50 pc |
| Package dimensions: | 30L x 30W x 30H cm |