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Foeniculum vulgare
Perennial non-bulbing fennel with prolific sweet aniseed flavoured feathery foliage. The young unfurling leaves are delicious in salads, as a garnish or with fish, or just as a forage food for kids – green lollies! Use young or old leaves in fish stock, sauces and stuffings and in mayonnaise, flavoured butters and salad dressings. The dried stalks can be placed under grilled or barbecued fish. The yellow flowers are tasty in salads, and the ripe seeds can be used in baking and to make a digestive tea. The roots are fibrous but have a tasty parsnip-like flavour and we consider them to be somewhere between cultivated vegetables and famine food in terms of use.
Fennel is a useful companion plant for attracting bees, hoverflies and ladybirds. The dried stems can be used as stakes for bean and pea teepees and make excellent woody mulch around trees in winter. Our kids also use them as witches broomsticks! The plant accumulates sulfur and potassium and is a good addition to a compost heap or chopped and dropped for mulch. Great for a vege garden border plant, and the ultimate multi-functional plant! ‘Weed’ did I hear you say?! Just make sure you cut off the seed heads before they mature if you don’t want the plants to spread. Useful part of a medicinal herbal ley for stock. Height to 200cm.
Certified Organic plant in 9cm pot.
Freight: We can send up to 9 plants this size (in 9cm pots) for the same freight price or they can be combined with other grades but this will incur higher freight costs.
More details of freight and packing charges here
N.B. Shipping costs are added AFTER you have placed your order, you will then be emailed an invoice with bank details.
Smallest box rate:
This can fit up to 9 plants in 9cm pots.
Shipping a single tree can be expensive. We may be able to fit more in the box for the same price! See our shipping rates for single and multi tree boxes.
Combining sizes?
No problem, we will work out the best rate for you once you’ve placed your order.
Jo has a passion for growing herbs but is not a qualified herbalist and has no medical background.
We are lucky to have Patricia Beagle working here at times, who is qualified, and some of her advice does appear on these pages, but herbs act differently for different people and can interact with other medicines. We therefore always recommend that you consult with your own qualified health-care practitioner before using herbal products, particularly if you are pregnant, nursing or on any medications.
Kahikatea Farm cannot take any responsibility for any adverse effects from the use of the plants or a plant not having the effect it is reputed to have.
