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- Successfully grow fennel in your own vegetable patch
- The choice of variety depending on the type of use
- Spice fennel for teas, masks and ointments
- Tasty side dishes from thick fennel tubers
- Shock-proof varieties of celeriac
- The ideal location
- The fennel season is determined by the location
- The preculture in the room
- Tips & Tricks
Successfully grow fennel in your own vegetable patch
Fennel is a matter of taste due to its intense and herbal taste as a vegetable. The tubers of this plant can be enjoyed either raw or cooked. The dried seeds of fennel can be used in various beauty treatments and healing applications.
The choice of variety depending on the type of use
For fennel, there is a fundamental distinction between wild fennel, tuber fennel and spice fennel. The latter is particularly suitable for harvesting the flavorful seeds of fennel. However, the tuber fennel also forms its umbelliferous inflorescences under suitable conditions.
Spice fennel for teas, masks and ointments
The varieties of the spice fritter are prone to a particularly pronounced flowering. As a result, they also allow a relatively higher yield of fennel seeds compared to the tuber fennel. If you want to grow fennel primarily for the use of the seeds in beauty masks, herbal mixtures and stomach teas, you should sow targeted spice fennel.
Tasty side dishes from thick fennel tubers
In the case of celeriac, the breeding is geared towards a possibly delayed and weak flowering. So the plants in your garden can form thick tubers at a suitable location. These in turn can be cut into pieces and cooked and served as an aromatic garnish.
Shock-proof varieties of celeriac
Since celeriac requires as large a tuber as possible, the flowering of the plants should be avoided as far as possible. This can be done by a late Saturday sowing in June, however, the tubers then mature only in the raised bed or in the wine-growing climate in time for the winter. However, so-called bullet-proof varieties can also be brought forward in March, without prone to early flowering in summer.
The ideal location
Fennel plants grow particularly well on loose and deep soil. The soil should have enough nutrients and should ideally be in the sun. Since the fennel tends to shoot when there is too much drought and congestion heat, it is important to ensure adequate irrigation, especially with tuber fennel.
The fennel season is determined by the location
Overall, the average culture duration of fennel is about 12 weeks. In particularly mild locations or in the raised bed, late direct sowing in the open air is still possible in June, and the instructions in the seed guide should be followed. Otherwise, fennel should preferably be preferred at room temperature from March and separated from May in the field to be harvested in the summer season.
The preculture in the room
Since fennel reacts sensitively to the cold, it should be covered with a protective fleece during direct sowing outdoors in early May. In the pre-culture in the room, the ideal germination temperature should be between 20 and 22 ° Celsius. After germination, the temperature must also be reduced to a maximum of 16 ° Celsius, otherwise the root collar will become too long and unstable.
Tips & Tricks
Fennel, like all other umbelliferae, should only be grown at the same site every three years. Pre-cultures include lettuce, cauliflower, radishes and all legumes.