Fennel

St Albans

We had a disaster with our Florence fennel at the allotment this year. Bar a couple of plants, it all bolted, and once that happens the bulbs are too tough to eat. I think lack of watering at a crucial stage may have been to blame.

But every cloud has a silver lining and this weekend the bolted plants looked fantastic – about 6ft high and the kind of fresh, bright green that you only see in spring. They looked positively other-worldly amid a sea of decaying, brown plants.

Next year I’d like to actually eat some fennel so will make a bit more of an effort to look after the plants. But I’ll definitely neglect a row so I can enjoy the flowers too.

6 thoughts on “Fennel”

  1. OMG! so much in the press about Greece going bankrupt, John Terry being a racialist and the X Factor bosses in meltdown but NOTHING, ABSOLUTELY NOTHING about your Florence fennel. it really is a crazy mixed up world!

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  2. Yes, next year you ‘make a bit more of an effort to look after the plants’.
    I bet if you tried to get them to bold in a flower border they wouldn’t!

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