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Fennel Chelsea Chop?

WiltshireWildWiltshireWild Posts: 64
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Is it a good idea to chelsea chop fennel? Mine typically flops a little and I dont have a better location for it. Will chelsea chopping work on this plant? 


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  • WiltshireWildWiltshireWild Posts: 64
    Has anyone tried this on fennel?
  • nutcutletnutcutlet Posts: 27,445
    No. It doesn't feel like a plant that would respond well but that's just an assumption


    In the sticks near Peterborough
  • CeresCeres Posts: 2,698
    I cut down a fennel one year to see if would stay bushy but it soon caught up with where it ought to have been. They are fast growing plants and don't seem to like their height being curtailed.
  • WiltshireWildWiltshireWild Posts: 64
    Ceres said:
    I cut down a fennel one year to see if would stay bushy but it soon caught up with where it ought to have been. They are fast growing plants and don't seem to like their height being curtailed.
    I see. So it doesn't make it more low growing or bushy?
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    No it wont grow bushy … it’s nature is to grow tall flower spikes … a fennel that’s really happy where it’s planted will bulk out a bit over several years but it will always have individual tall flower stems. 

    If you want a similar but slghtly lower-growing umbellifer you could consider Anthriscus sylvestris or even the annual culinary dill. 

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





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