Fennel - Bronze-Smokey

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Fresh leaves can be sprinkled on salads or used in salad dressings. Fennel does best in well drained, sandy soils with lots of organic matter. The tall feathery, smoky purple foliage provides a beautiful accent with pink and white roses or any other contrasting flower color. The seed produced by the Bronze Fennell is used for flavoring cookies, breads, and cakes. They need to be kept moist. Plant in the spring 2 weeks before the last average frost date. The Bronze Fennel attracts butterflies. The Bronze Fennel is an absolutely dazzling, hard to find Fennel, that is used primarily for ornamental value and has tasty foliage and seeds. The Fennel Bronze, 'Foeniculum vulgare', has stunningly beautiful, purple feathery plumes that provide a lacy contrast in the vegetable or flower garden. The swallowtail butterfly lays eggs on fennel. ... get more information

Radish - White Icicle The flower tops are edible and the green tops can also be used in salads. This mild flavored radish is great eaten fresh, in salads, or in sandwiches. Bigger radishes get pithy and hot. Radishes prefer loose, light soil with a fair amount of organic material. It is easy to grow and is quite early for a summer radish. Successive planting every 10 days will prolong the radish harvest. Harvest when the radish is 5 inches long. White Icicle can produce a crop when spring radishes won't. The Radish White Icicle, 'Raphanus sativus', is an attractive snow white, 5" - 6" long, tapered radish with a mild flavor. Plant in late spring.