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- Cultivation of tubers - Tips for sowing and care
- Sowing tubers for the ideal date - That's how it works
- Care Tips - How To Bring Growth Forward
- Tips
A planting distance of about 30cm is useful when growing tubers
Cultivation of tubers - Tips for sowing and care
To harvest rich tubers in late summer, the starting signal for cultivation will be given in spring. Read here, when and how sowing succeeds. Benefit from our tips for the best care of the aromatic Mediterranean spice plant.
Sowing tubers for the ideal date - That's how it works
Choose from the middle / end of May a sunny location with nutrient rich, humus and fresh damp soil. Prepare a fine crumbed seedbed enriched with sieved compost. How to properly remove the seeds:
Then cover the seedbed with a fleece or protect it with a foil tunnel to produce a germination temperature of at least 20 degrees Celsius. Keep the soil slightly moist and warm, otherwise the seedlings will shoot. Pin weeds consistently, as the rake could cause damage to the delicate roots.
Care Tips - How To Bring Growth Forward
Knollenfenchel is one of the heavyweights. Therefore, do not let the urgesunde spice plant lingers. A regular water supply is also one of the mainstays of the care program. What is needed to harvest white flowers is summarized here:
If the tubers have reached a diameter of 3-4 cm, you will pile on. To do this, pull the earth over the fennel with the rake so far that only the green leaves are still exposed. This effort is rewarded with appetizing, white fennel tubers. If the fruits are the size of a fist, the harvest can begin.
Tips
The early tuber fennel varieties accumulate less nitrate, which makes them particularly popular with health-conscious gardeners. Compared to the classics score the new varieties with low propensity to shoot. Therefore, choose names such as Argo, Selma, Atos, Zefa or Cantino when choosing seed.