Re: chicory

In a message dated 7/23/00 2:13:10 PM Eastern Daylight Time, 
deanslgr@juno.com writes:

<< I've never grown the chicory cultivars, such as produce Belgian endive,
 but has anyone ever grown these and allowed them to flower?  The improved
 plants might produce improved flowers. >>

Chicory will seed into your lawn and live in large flat rosettes under the 
lawn mowers.  It will even bloom on long flat crawly stems.  If you do not 
want plants cohabiting with the grass in your lawn do not introduce chicory.  
Other plants than invade grass from the garden and are difficult to remove 
are ajuga, thyme, Dean's creepy charlie,  pussy toes (antennaria) and 
lysimachia mummularia. 

Chicory has a tap root that will insure that you will not remove it without 
an axe.  It typically grows on road shoulders.  If you have ever tried to 
removed an aged malva root, it is about the same thing.

We cut anything that is green in the lawn area as our's is a country garden 
but some gardeners also the "garden" the grassy areas.

Claire Peplowski
East Nassau, NY z4

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