Fennel "fenook" is something I'd love to grow - don't know too many gardeners who do. Didn't realize it was perennial! Our family eats it instead of salad after pasta sometimes.
My bronze fennel not only faithfully returns each year, it also self-seeds like crazy so I have plenty to share -- which reminds me I should go and dig and pot some up now for upcoming plant swaps. Only drawback is it, it getssuch a long taproot that if you don't dig it when young - you'll not get the whole thing and it often diesn;t survive the transplant when it is "broken."
Hi WGardener (love your magazine btw). Thanks for the idea of potting up the fennel. Mine also self-seeds; sometimes I find plants way on the other side of the house from the original planting. I've wondered if that's normal and apparently it is.
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Fennel "fenook" is something I'd love to grow - don't know too many gardeners who do. Didn't realize it was perennial! Our family eats it instead of salad after pasta sometimes.
My bronze fennel not only faithfully returns each year, it also self-seeds like crazy so I have plenty to share -- which reminds me I should go and dig and pot some up now for upcoming plant swaps. Only drawback is it, it getssuch a long taproot that if you don't dig it when young - you'll not get the whole thing and it often diesn;t survive the transplant when it is "broken."
Hi WGardener (love your magazine btw). Thanks for the idea of potting up the fennel. Mine also self-seeds; sometimes I find plants way on the other side of the house from the original planting. I've wondered if that's normal and apparently it is.
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