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Fennel after growing potatoes

SkylarksSkylarks Posts: 379
in Fruit & veg
Morning all,

My early potatoes should be ready in a few weeks. They are in fabric pots 30cm diameter, 35 cm high. Jacks magic compost. Once the potatoes are done, can I add some well rotten manure and plant one fennel plant in each pot? Is it to late to start fennel from seed now? 

Thanks 

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  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    Which kind of fennel do you mean?
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • SkylarksSkylarks Posts: 379
    The edible type.
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    Skylarks said:
    The edible type.
    Florence fennel rather than herb fennel?

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





  • SkylarksSkylarks Posts: 379
    Ah, yes Florence fennel (had to google) - the bulb ones you see in SM.
  • NollieNollie Posts: 7,529
    Fennel of any kind has a negative allelopathic effect (inhibits their growth) on potatoes but I don’t think that works in reverse, so I think you will be fine.
    Mountainous Northern Catalunya, Spain. Hot summers, cold winters.
  • BobTheGardenerBobTheGardener Posts: 11,385
    edited June 2020
    Many don't sow Florence fennel until on or after midsummer's day - have a read here:
    Some were sown here earlier this week and are just germinating but will sow more after June 21st to see if it makes a difference wrt bolting.

    A trowel in the hand is worth a thousand lost under a bush.
  • SkylarksSkylarks Posts: 379
    That’s great, thanks. I’m going to grow fennel, yay 😀 
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