Fennel

[tea-shot]

I have a rather large bronze fennel plant that I grew from seed years ago. It seeds itself all over the lace (even in the walls ) but what I would like to know is - would these be the same sort of fennel that is grown to eat. If it is I will be taking all the self sown seedlings up to the plot, but if not then they will be pulled up and fed to the chucks. Wierd thought - will that produce aniseed flavoured eggs

The plant that I have is about 2 foot across and the shoots are now at 3-4 inches tall - amazing what comes from a little speck of dust

[Angi]

This is the herb fennel, which you can chop up and use with fish, etc. The other fennel is bulb fennel and needs to be grown from seed. By the way, fennel produces a tap root and doesn't transplant very well unless you move it when it is quite small.

[tea-shot]

Thanks for that Angi Well it looks like we'll be having lovely flavoured eggs for a while

[Monika]

If you want to grow Florence fennel, that is, the bulb fennel, they are quite easy, as long as you don't sow them too early. I always thought they were very fussy, but having tried them, I grow them every year now, sowing in about early May in heat, then transplanting them (from rootrainers) about end of June and they bulb up very well.