The harvest of fennel from the garden

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• The harvest of fennel from the garden
• The culture time of fennel
• Preserve the tuber fennel before licking
• Harvesting the seeds in spice-fennel
• Uncomplicated to separate the fennel seeds from the cabbage
• Fresh fennel as a vegetable
• Tips & Tricks

The harvest of fennel from the garden

Fennel appears in various forms within the life and remedies offer, for example as fennel tea, in the form of fennel seeds or as fresh vegetables. The great tuber can be easily grown in warm and sunny locations in your own garden. Depending on the variety and the intended use, you can harvest fennel in different ways.

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The culture time of fennel

When sowing directly in the field fennel plants take about 12 weeks to come to a harvestable size. However, this is mainly true if you want to use the tubers of this tasty vegetable. On the other hand, if you are mainly after the fennel seeds, you must wait for the flowers to mature in midsummer.

Preserve the tuber fennel before licking

When fennel tubers are about the size of a human fist, they can be harvested for fresh consumption or freezing. If you stay longer in the vegetable patch, you can grow even bigger and later be harvested fresh. However, you should then necessarily protect the plants from excessive heat and dehydration of the substrate to avoid woody tubers.

Harvesting the seeds in spice-fennel

To get the coveted fennel seeds, you must wait for the flower of the fennel herb. This is visible in golden yellow umbels in midsummer and is particularly pronounced in the so-called spice sting. Harvest the aromatic seeds by cutting the herb directly on the tubers.

Uncomplicated to separate the fennel seeds from the cabbage

The harvest of fennel seeds is particularly uncomplicated if you harvest them with the withered herb from the plants. Wait for the right time to mature and tie bouquets to dry. If these are hung upside down above a smooth and clean surface, falling fennel seeds can be easily collected.

Fresh fennel as a vegetable

Fresh fennel can be eaten with its aromatic tubers from August until the onset of winter as a fresh vegetable. It is raw or cooked for humans and even dogs digestible.

Tips & Tricks

If you have missed the right harvest time, you do not have to pull out and discard lignified fennel tubers directly. For example, cut off the old leaves for seed harvesting and wait for the new leaves to be released. These can then be perfectly processed into salads or mixed vegetables.