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Q about florence fennel...

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  Posted by zoomer44 (U14019069) on Thursday, 23rd June 2011

  I'm growing florence fennel for the first time and have two lots sown a few weeks apart.
  
  I've followed the distructions and the first lot was potted up into modules and is in the GH. It's only a few inches high but already has recognisable tiny little bulbs resting on the compost.
  
  Q's are - will be happy there for a couple more weeks as I don't have any space to plant it out yet. It'll go out in place of beetroot or mangetout - wondered which was best place to plant it and do I need to pepare the soil first after either of these veg.

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  Posted by Italophile (U12516505) on Friday, 24th June 2011

  Better in the ground sooner rather than later. Fennel doesn't transplant well. It develops a tap root that doesn't take kindly to being disturbed. Fennel just needs decent soil that drains well. The mangetout soil would be good because it will contain nitrogen, the mangetouts having inserted it into the soil.

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  Posted by Papa Nopsis (U14479902) on Friday, 24th June 2011

  Satisfying my Fennel efforts since I nearly dug over thinking they had failed, and then checked with my specs on.
  
  I am now thinning out and enjoying the thinnings.
  
  I wonder how big I shall be able to get the bulbs?!!
  
  In spite of the dry/hot weather many of my outdoor sowing efforts have been quite successful, although I should prefer to have success with every seed not just some of them!
  
  Broccoli and cauli seedlings are now on the way, in a part of the garden which did not seem propitious for growing anything at all really, right under a hedge.

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  Posted by figrat (U3054696) on Friday, 24th June 2011

  Never grown it myself, but someone else has...

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  Posted by zoomer44 (U14019069) on Friday, 24th June 2011

  I didn't know fennel had a tap root, the modules they are in are probably not deep enough but I do have some deeper narrower ones which they could go in until the mangetout stops cropping. Will have to take my chances repotting and waiting for a space.
  
  Thanks for the link. I enjoyed watching Alys Fowlers series not sure if she managed to plant fennel florence 30cm apart in her garden must have been in the GW one Some good advise though.

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  Posted by zoomer44 (U14019069) on Saturday, 25th June 2011

  Fennel was being sold half price today in a local supermarket, so I bought a bulb for 54p to try, was going to get out the cook books to see how to cook it
  
  

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  Posted by Papa Nopsis (U14479902) on Sunday, 26th June 2011

  It is so easy to forget what you have planned and planted for.
  
  I planted the fennel for a herbal taste to my Home made cider.
  I wouldn't be buying fennel from somebody else to do that, or be doing it
  without growing it myself.
  
  I can do about 40 gallons of cider, and perhaps I will try a couple of gallons with a light taste of fennel to it, this year. If it is successful, i will do more next year and so forth; an individual taste.
  
  Some of the continental wines do that with great effect, so I shall have a go too with our own nectar. In future my cider may not just be cider!

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