Fennel - A Valuable Plant for Gardens & Orchards
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- Опубликовано: 5 окт 2024
- Fennel provides some really great uses. Besides food for us as humans in the form of seeds, leaves and bulbs, it also is beautiful and provides food for parasitic wasps. This great plant can help control pest populations and provide biomass.
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If you like fennel you should grow Sweet Cicely. Great pollinater and the seed pods are delicious
I have honey bees. I planted several varieties of butterfly bush (purple, yellow, and red flowering) thinking that the honey bees and butterflies would go crazy over their pollen. NOPE, hardly a honey bee came to the mass of flowering plants I gave them. They went to the Red Buds, and Tulip Poplar NECTAR-giving trees. BUT what did come was at least seven species of Bumble bees, wasps, and some very small butterflies. I wasn't disappointed, the bushes brought MORE species of wasps, bumble bee and their imitators that pollinated probably 90% of the garden. Especially the peppers, squash, zucchini, and cucumbers. I saw some honey bees in the blueberries, and clovers. I also have perennial chives, garlic and onions that I allow some to flower for those late (August, September & October) pollen needs. The only pest problems we had this year was Stink bugs (late season) , and some Japanese beetles hit our grapes and Plum trees. I'm going to try some fennel this year. Thanks for the videos Ross.
Good video Ross. Definitely something worth considering
Lovage is another nice perennial for insects
I'm of Portuguese heritage and my mother still grows her fennel and makes a delicious soup with the leaves along with potatoes and different beans! I wonder if she knows of these other advantages to growing the fennel! Great video !!
Wasps are like wolves of the insect world. I also have bronze fennel. Many small wasps come to it. Also black swallowtail larva loves to eat it. I feed the seed heads to my rabbits. I don't really like the bronze fennel seed myself. It also reseeds itself easily so it's good to remove seed heads to control its spread
@RossRaddi - Bronze fennel is the staple flavor in southern Italian salumi and salsicce. Mostly from seeds.... but if you want to do something cool, fennel pollen, (after saffron) is the most expensive spice in the world for a reason.... it's glorious! There's nothing like it anywhere. It's happiness for the nose.... (and not in the 80's sense) Imagine some dude in Tuscany walking around with a paper bag and how long it takes to gather 100g of pollen.... Some folks doing in in California now... (also with dill... dill pollen is unreal)
I've been paying through the nose to import this stuff for my cured meats but I'm growing it now... and I'll be shaking a lot of flowers into paper bags. Give it a try!
Are you growing it as a perennial?
To those who are criticizing the flavor fennel.... Stick to drive-thru's... Probably better suited to your palette...
Very interesting. I'll definitely try it.
I like fennel but I hate wasps ! I think this plant is off the list for me
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Fennel is literally the worst tasting vegtable I have ever grown. It is somehow worse than liquorice.
Liquorice jelly beans good, Fennel jelly bean BAD!
It is very strong. Use only one or two seeds in a soup, or roast them and that will weaken the strength.