Forum home› The potting shed
This Forum will close on Wednesday 27 March, 2024. Please refer to the announcement on the Discussions page for further detail.

Do you like my bronze leaved fennel?

2

Posts

  • debs64debs64 Posts: 5,184
    Does it grow well from seed Dove? Thinking it may work on the allotment next year. Assume the bronze leaved tastes similar but looks better? 
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    Grows beautifully from seed @debs64. I usually sow a few seeds in modules in the cold frame and scatter the rest of the seed in the garden where I want it to grow. Belt and braces principle. Usually both methods work as well as each other. 🙂

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • debs64debs64 Posts: 5,184
    Thanks Dove. Now that I have my greenhouse on the allotment I am planning to grow lots of plants from seeds next year. Hubby was saying roasted fennel was delicious and I like the idea of bronze foliage. Will give it a go! 
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    edited August 2018
    Ah ... you need a different fennel for roasted fennel ... you need seeds of Florence fennel not the herb fennel. Florence fennel swells at the base to form the bulb-like vegetable. The herb fennel doesn’t swell. 

    Ive not grown Florence fennel ... I keep meaning to give it a try cos we love it. 

    I meant  to say that I’ve found fennel doesn’t like being transplanted cos it has a long tap root so that’s why I sow it in modules so I can transplant it carefully without it noticing. 

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • madpenguinmadpenguin Posts: 2,543
    The extended heatwave may have something to do with the colour change perhaps?
    “Every day is ordinary, until it isn't.” - Bernard Cornwell-Death of Kings
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    Maybe it is the bleaching effect of the sun plus the effect of a brightly lit photo?

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • Hampshire HogHampshire Hog Posts: 330
    Millie I sowed fresh bronze fennel seed this spring and it to started bronze at ground level but as its grown has become more green towards the top :/ as the madpenguin says I do wonder if the weather is having some effect never happened before.
    "A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in."
  • Valley GardenerValley Gardener Posts: 2,851
    That looks lovely MMM! I love your Menhirs,I've got some in my garden too.
    The whole truth is an instrument that can only be played by an expert.
  • Hampshire HogHampshire Hog Posts: 330
    @Dovefromabove reading back was interesting you use it as a screen I was thinking of doing just that at the allotment next year now I know it works I will  :)
    "A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in."
Sign In or Register to comment.