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Endive Variety Selector: Which One For Your Garden

Every recommendation below traces back to our full Endive varieties comparison — this page is the fast route to one answer for your specific situation, no clicking through required.

If: Summer salad crop

Pancalieri AGMAGM

Pancalieri is the frisée type: classic finely serrated leaves with a light-coloured centre, better suited to summer cropping and more tolerant of hot weather. It's the summer-cropping pick.

If: Hardy crop for winter

Natacha AGMAGM

Natacha is the Batavian (escarole) type: hardy and bolt-resistant, the more robust type for winter harvesting. It needs cloches or fleece from October to stand into winter, and blanching runs slower in cool autumn conditions, so budget more than the usual two weeks.

If: Not sure, just give me the safest all-round choice

Pancalieri and Natacha, grown in successionAGM

Natacha and Pancalieri aren't really competing for the same job, so most gardens do best growing both, staggered across the year, rather than picking one: a frisee crop through summer, followed by the hardier Batavian type carrying you into autumn and winter.

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