Up your flavor game with fragrant, tasty Bonnie Plants™ Foodie Fresh™ Grosfruchtiger Fennel grown from seed in your garden. You might think fennel is all about the bulb--think again. This pretty variety produces fabulous anise-like flavor with its feathery fronds and flowers. Easy to grow from seed, fennel makes a perfect complement to your favorite recipes. Try adding it to dips, soups, dressings, salsas, roasts, and veggies. It even makes an interesting pesto. Pick fronds before flowering for best flavor. The edible flowers make a tasty topping for dishes. Grosfruchtiger Fennel grows 24-36" tall. Sow seeds indoors 4 weeks before last frost, following directions on the packet. Plant seeds 1/2" deep, cover with soil, and keep evenly moist. Seeds sprout in 7-14 days. Provide bright light after sprouting. No need to thin seedlings. Matures in 50-60 days. Grosfruchtiger Fennel needs full sun and consistently moist, well-drained soil. Be sure to water your plant when the top inch of soil feels dry to the touch and feed regularly with Bonnie Plants™ Foodie Fresh™ Plant Food. Bonnie Plants™ Foodie Fresh™ seed varieties create culinary inspiration, adding delicious flavors, textures, and colors to your garden-to-table meals.
Fennel variety produces fabulous anise-like flavor with its feathery fronds and flowers
Add herb to dips, soups, dressings, salsas, roasts, and veggies for a unique flavor
Start growing indoors 4 weeks before last frost then transfer to container, raised bed, or in-ground
Grosfruchtiger Fennel's anise-like flavor provides a delicious addition to stir-fries, vinaigrettes, curries, stocks, and salsas; try it as a pesto, or add it to yogurt, dips, eggs, salads, or roasted veggies or meat; flavor is best before flowering
Grosfruchtiger Fennel grows 24-36 inches tall and produces edible flowers; matures in 50-60 days; a variety grown for foliage and flowers, not bulbs; fennel produces edible seeds the following year
