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Growing Fennel: From Seed 🌱 to Garden 🌿 to Table 🍽️ Fennel is truly a wonderful vegetable to grow in your garden or even in pots & containers. 🌱 Start your seedlings indoor 6 weeks before your last frost date. The seeds have such an amazing scent! After last frost, when the soil is warmer, replant in full sun in a soil rich with compost. Space them well 20-30 cm minimum. 🌿When they are well developed, every new fluffy stalks growing will make the bulb bigger. Remove the mulch around your fe

Leave Fennel to Flower 🌱🌼🐝 Even though Florence fennel is generally grown for its bulbs and harvests as an annual, with herb fennel being grown as a perennial, I always leave a few Florence fennel plants in the ground, usually at the edges or corners of beds, to flower and then set seed. 😊🌼 The flowers are loved by many pollinators and beneficial insects such as bees, butterflies, hoverflys, parasitic wasp and lady birds, that help maintain a balanced vegetable garden and reduce pest number