What chicory varieties work best?

[Teeder]

That's likely common chicory, a native forb. The foodplot stuff are forage varieties, mostly developed overseas. The native stuff is much more tolerant of wet dirt than the forage varieties.

See alot of that around here.

 

[bigboreblr]

That's likely common chicory, a native forb. The foodplot stuff are forage varieties, mostly developed overseas. The native stuff is much more tolerant of wet dirt than the forage varieties.

Thats the stuff at camp. I picked up oasis chicory. See if it takes. Just read it likes alkaline soil. Might not be the best for camp possibly.

Here's a bit on the native one. Wondering how different forage chicory looks when mature like that.

Weed of the Month: Chicory - Brooklyn Botanic Garden

Its roots taste like coffee, its leaves taste like dandelion greens, and its blue flowers will be gone before you know it.

www.bbg.org

 

[Native Hunter]

The flowers will look the same on both. Wild chicory has small, waxy leaves, and the good forage varieties have bigger and more tender leaves. I've seen bucks take 18 inches out of the top of a chicory plant in one bite - stem and all.

 

[Turkey Creek]

We will see how Endure chickory responds to greening up and having 80 degeree weather only to be smack by 10 degree weather the next night. My chickory that I planted last Spring was greening up nicely, not now. We will see if it pulls out of it. I have also never seen Curly Dock and Dandelions get smoked by weather like that before, but they sure did this time.

 

[Bowsnbucks]

We will see how Endure chickory responds to greening up and having 80 degeree weather only to be smack by 10 degree weather the next night. My chickory that I planted last Spring was greening up nicely, not now. We will see if it pulls out of it. I have also never seen Curly Dock and Dandelions get smoked by weather like that before, but they sure did this time.

Good luck on your plants. We had 83 here one day, and 2 days later - hard frost. Gonna test some plants of all types.

 

[Turkey Creek]

My Endure Chickory pulled through the very Bi-polar KS weather. We had highs in the 90s and then got down to 10 a few weeks ago. It had started to green up nicely but then got smacked by that 10 degree weather. I was curiouis to see if it would pull through, it looks pretty decent. I broadcast seeded another area a couple weeks ago then we got some pretty heavy rain, we will see how well it germinates. My clover from the same time is looking pretty good germination wise so I have hope.

 

[farmlegend]

22 fahrenheit at my southern Michigan farm this morning. Some clovers and cereals have begun to green up a bit, rest of perennials still in dormancy.

 

[Turkey Creek]

I am impressed, this last year was the first year I planted chicory and all I can say is that unless something drastic changes my mind it will be in the permanent rotation. It has handled our extremely bi-polar weather that we have here in KS. I am not sure when I fertilized it. Has to be at least 3 weeks ago, maybe longer. Damn its looks good and the deer are already using it. I was doing some spraying tonight and I noticed that even the other planting that I seeded last year that got over run with foxtail looks decent! I have not fertilized it yet. I had given up on it when the foxtail got really bad last year, just assumed it lost the battle. I guess it has a lot more fight in it than I knew.




Planting that was over run with foxtail last year.

 

[Bowsnbucks]

That plot looks great! We love chicory here too. Very tolerant of weather, and it has a deep tap root for drought survival.