🌱 Sowing & planting
- Sowing depth: 0.75 cm
- Sowing distance: in 5 cm trays or 45 cm between rows and 20 cm between plants
- Germination: 21 °C, 10-22 days
- Planting distance: 45 cm between rows, 20 cm between plants
- Plant out as: 10 cm tall plant
- Growth cycle: 150 days
📅 Growing times throughout the year
- Summer cultivation: Sow indoors in early April-mid-April; plant under glass in late April-mid-May or outdoors in early May-mid-June; harvest July-mid-August.
- Early autumn cultivation: sow outdoors in June; harvest in late August-September.
- Late autumn cultivation: sow outdoors mid-June-mid-July; harvest mid-September-early November.
Start cultivation (sowing)
Harvesting
JAN FEB MAR APR MAY JUN
Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
🪟 Summer (indoors → glass/outdoors)
Autumn early (outside)
Autumn late (outside)
🏠 Inside
🪟 Greenhouse / conservatory
Outside
🌿 Popular breeds
- Florence
📘 Basic information
- Crop group: Root crop
- Crop family: Apiaceae family
- Height: 80 cm
- Growth cycle: 150 days
- Frost resistant: yes
- Root system: 30-45 cm
- Preferred soil: pH 6.1-7.8
- Fertilization: well composted soil is more than sufficient
🌞💧 Pitch & water
Location: 🌞 lots of sun
Watering: 💧💧 water moderately
🤝 Good & Bad Neighbors
Good neighbors
Bad neighbors
- Bean
- Tomato
❗ Dangers & Concerns
- Sensitive to butterfly caterpillars.
🧺 Harvesting & storing
Fennel is firmly planted in the ground. Use a pitchfork to loosen the soil.
Cut the fennel about 1 cm above the roots, remove the outer stems, and trim the tough stalks. The tender green foliage is delicious with fish.
🍽️ Nutritional value
Per 100 g raw fennel:
- 31 kcal
- 0 g fat
- 7 g carbohydrates
- 1 g protein
- 3 g fiber
- 0 g sugar
- Vitamin: C
- Other: niacin, calcium, iron, magnesium , phosphorus , copper, potassium, folic acid and manganese
