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  1. Vera Nikolaeva

    Fennel
    This is what my children call fennel, and now my grandchildren. Sometimes we add leaves to salads, but usually we “use” just like that, on the go: I picked a few sprigs of fennel and put it in my mouth. A little granddaughter, when we pass by a garden with a bright green curtain, often asks to chew on “sweet” dill.
    I tried several times to grow vegetable varieties of fennel to try its meaty "heads". But. unfortunately, an ordinary stem grew, however, a little larger and juicier. This year we decided to try our luck again. We will try to do everything according to the rules. Even in the greenhouse we will select a corner.

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  2. Claudia SHUPIKOVA

    Last year, vegetable fennel was first grown. He eats not only greens, but also a root stalk, resembling a bulb in shape.
    In early April, she introduced a bucket of humus and a half-liter can of wood ash per 1 sq. Meter of garden beds. I dug up, leveled the earth with a rake. Sowed one seed at a distance of 7 cm from each other. Poured plentifully. She covered with a spanbond. When the seedlings appeared, I fed it with a solution of potassium sulfate (1 tablespoon per 10 liters of water). A month later, I poured a solution of herbal mash (1 liter per 10 liters of water). In mid-July, she fed a solution of calcium nitrate (matchbox per bucket of water). Root crops grew to envy!
    I tried to add fennel to soups and salads. But it’s best to bake this vegetable with cheese.

    I cut three or four onions of fennel into quarters, blanch for five minutes in boiling salted water. Spread in a baking dish, salt and pepper to taste. I sprinkle with vegetable oil and bake in an oven preheated to 200 degrees, 35-40 minutes. Five minutes before turning off, sprinkle abundantly with grated cheese. When the cheese melts - a great side dish for fish and meat is ready!

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    • OOO "Sad"

      Fennel loves a short daylight. With a long daylight, plants can quickly shoot and sprout. Therefore, with early sowing of seeds, I recommend installing medium arches over the bed with fennel and at 7-8 o’clock in the evening cover the crops with black spanbond, and remove the shelter in the morning. In addition, at the end of the season it will be possible to leave several plants wintering in the garden. In September, feed them with a solution of potassium nitrate (1 tablespoon per 10 liters of water). In mid-October, mulch with peat and humus, and with the first frost cover with leaf litter or fir branches. In the spring, as soon as the snow melts, remove the shelter. As soon as the earth warms up, the plants will grow, and it will be possible to begin to clean the greens. In summer, it will be possible to collect seeds from them.

      Svetlana KRIVENKOVA, agronomist

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