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    I have a nice fennel plant in a small pot next to my back door but it always dries out really quickly. Would I be better off putting it in a larger pot or in the ground?
    (I have a fairly sunny space to fill in the garden).

  • #2
    I find fennel is best planted in the ground as it can have a very long root. I tried to dig one up a few years ago and had to dig over a foot down before I dug it out but still left some root at the bottom.

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    • #3
      I've got a couple of herb fennel in my garden and the both grow to around 6ft tall so like Nelly says yours would be better in the ground.
      Location....East Midlands.

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      • #4
        As the others have said, it needs plenty of room - and a sunny spot would be ideal

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        • #5
          My fennel has gone mad, it's lovely,but now about 5/6 ft, have had to tie it some canes, it's nw flowering, can you advise me what to do? Leave it, cut it down, will all the seeds produce new plants (help!), i have brought some home home to cook with some veg. It was only a small plant when I put it in about 6 weeks ago!


          DottyR
          Last edited by Dorothy rouse; 29-07-2013, 06:15 AM.
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          • #6
            Herb fennel self seeds profusely so unless you want a lot more I'd take off the seeds heads.
            P

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            • #7
              Collect the seeds and cook with them!
              Le Sarramea https://jgsgardening.blogspot.com/

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              • #8
                Originally posted by PyreneesPlot View Post
                Collect the seeds and cook with them!
                Fennel seeds are nice added to bread.
                Location....East Midlands.

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                • #9
                  Fennel bread, mmmm sounds good. I'd best get off and cut some before it seeds everywhere!


                  DottyR
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                  • #10
                    Fennel seeds go well with pork Yum!

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                    • #11
                      Fennel, seeds, flowers, fronds, stalks, being taken to Yorkshire this weekend, am sharing !


                      DottyR
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                      • #12


                        Would someone please confirm that this is a herby fennel (as opposed to a bulby fennel ). I picked it up at a plant sale before realising that there were two types
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                        • #13
                          I may well be wrong but I don't think you can tell until it flowers.
                          If the stem around soil level doesn't appreciably swell it's herb fennel.
                          Sent from my pc cos I don't have an i-phone.

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                          • #14
                            Looks like herb fennel to me.
                            Gardening requires a lot of water - most of it in the form of perspiration. Lou Erickson, critic and poet

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                            • #15
                              Thank you both

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