Days to Maturity: 85 to 90
All-America Selections (AAS) Winner 1934
An award winner and as popular as ever, Batavian Full Heart, an escarole variety, is a leafy vegetable producing large, round, tightly packed heads of broad slightly twisted lettuce-like leaves and creamy-white very deep hearts with a thick bulky texture. Well-blanched, the hearts are soft and less bitter. Heart leaves contain about 1 calorie each and are good “dippers,” replacing chips and crackers, for hummus, guacamole, or any other healthy dips. This nutritious green is loaded with vitamins B, C, and K, calcium, magnesium, iron, zinc, folate, and selenium, and one head delivers 60 percent of the potassium found in a banana. It is also high in complex fibers, aiding digestion.
This herbaceous taprooted biennial, producing seed in the second year, is a member of the chicory (Asteraceae) family. It grows as a rosette of leaves forming a head. It grows bes
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