{"id":3702,"date":"2013-10-18T20:04:45","date_gmt":"2013-10-18T18:04:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/foodiesgarden.net\/?p=3702"},"modified":"2013-10-18T20:18:22","modified_gmt":"2013-10-18T18:18:22","slug":"sowing-growing-harvesting-fennel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/foodiesgarden.net\/?p=3702","title":{"rendered":"sowing, growing, harvesting: fennel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/foodiesgarden.net\/wp-uploads\/2013\/09\/fennel.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3719\" alt=\"fennel\" src=\"http:\/\/foodiesgarden.net\/wp-uploads\/2013\/09\/fennel.jpg\" width=\"2312\" height=\"1535\" srcset=\"http:\/\/foodiesgarden.net\/wp-uploads\/2013\/09\/fennel.jpg 2312w, http:\/\/foodiesgarden.net\/wp-uploads\/2013\/09\/fennel-300x199.jpg 300w, http:\/\/foodiesgarden.net\/wp-uploads\/2013\/09\/fennel-1024x679.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/foodiesgarden.net\/wp-uploads\/2013\/09\/fennel-451x300.jpg 451w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2312px) 100vw, 2312px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>not every year\u00a0fennel works as great as it did this year. and to tell you the truth, i have no idea why. sometimes the seeds don\u00b4t sprout. sometimes they sprout, but the fennel remains really tiny. ok, this is maybe because our climate does not provide the fennel with ideal conditions every year. and sometimes you miss the right point to harvest and the fennel turns into seeds again. but as you can see,\u00a0this year we have been lucky!<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>we started sowing the fennel in may. it depends a bit on where you are. but as fennel is a mediterranean vegetable you should wait until it is a bit warmer without night frosts.<\/p>\n<p>make 2 cm deep seeding holes in distances of 30 cm space to each side. place 2-3 fennel seeds in every hole and close.<\/p>\n<p>if they are starting to sprout and every single fennel seed sprouts, you have to thin them out, \u00a0so that each fennel has enough space to grow.<\/p>\n<p>they are ready to harvest end of august, beginning of september, sometimes later, it depends. i have no experience with any pests, so maybe fennel does not have natural enemies.<\/p>\n<p>you can store fennel quite a while in the fridge. you can eat fennel raw or cooked, in salads, with pasta, <em><a href=\"http:\/\/foodiesgarden.net\/?p=1334\" target=\"_blank\">saut\u00e9ed with other vegetables and fish<\/a><\/em> or marinated or as crudit\u00e9s.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>not every year\u00a0fennel works as great as it did this year. and to tell you the truth, i have no idea why. sometimes the seeds don\u00b4t sprout. sometimes they sprout, but the fennel remains really tiny. ok, this is maybe &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/foodiesgarden.net\/?p=3702\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","hentry","category-gardening","category-summer","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/foodiesgarden.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3702","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/foodiesgarden.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/foodiesgarden.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/foodiesgarden.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/foodiesgarden.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3702"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/foodiesgarden.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3702\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3909,"href":"http:\/\/foodiesgarden.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3702\/revisions\/3909"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/foodiesgarden.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/foodiesgarden.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/foodiesgarden.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}