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Planting Endives

Often called escarole (which has widerleaves), this salad plant will succeed in anyordinary garden soil not deficient in humus andnormal moisture. Like lettuce, its succulentgrowth must be rather rapid to enable it toform tender leaves. On poor, dry, exposed soilits growth will be slowed up so that its leaves,if they form in quantity, will be tough andunnecessarily pungent.

For success in growing endive, use thesame area where lettuce succeeded early in the spring, and add a thin layer of compoK nrthe rows.

Planting: Seed should be thin-•covered with not more than 1/3 inchsifted, mature compost humus, cleara mixture of the two. To make the seed, sand and humus may be well =Ix:container and then spread along the a shallow trench. The rows should eabout one foot apart and the plants t±nistand one foot apart in the row.

You may find it best to raise flat or similar container set in a par_spot, or by using a shaded seedbed. Tseedbeds may be protected from exceimer heat by stretching cheesecloth e;When transplanting the young plart5garden, be sure they are set slightly de:they were in the flat and are well firmed_work with the hoe to keep down welight mulching of straw or rough conabout all the cultivation the plants net,

Blanching: The slightly bitter. 1tizing flavor of the leaves can be elim:13blanching. This may be accomplished b.ing flowerpots over the plants, foot-wide planks on edge so that they c.--:-Ixtr•row with a light-tight miniature roottying up the heads when the plant is a'r.cir.grown and the head fairly well formed 11this, draw together the long outer tie them with soft string or a strip ofThe plants should remain covered orabout three weeks.

Plants that reach maturity inshould be gently dug up with a goodearth around their roots and set incorner of a cool, unheated cellar. Herrheads will soon blanch without theof tying.

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