Have you ever come across a vegetable in the supermarket and wondered just what to do with it? For instance, fennel is one of those items that's often overlooked. With its bulb-like base, long stalks, ...

Companion planting is about growing particular crops together, so that both thrive. However, this idea also works in reverse, whereby certain pairings should be avoided, as one or both will suffer ...

I hope you enjoyed the warm weather we had a few days ago. Freezing weather one week and 60-70 degrees the next. You have to love Mid-Missouri weather. I would like to introduce you to both a ...

Makenna Held, the author of Mostly French and a cooking teacher based in France, didn’t always like fennel. She found it overpowering and aggressively anise-forward. It wasn’t until she moved to ...

A flowering veggie belonging to the same family as carrots and celery, fennel is native to the Mediterranean and is considered one of the oldest medicinal herbs. Today, science backs up that it as a ...

Plants that can serve multiple purposes are fantastic, and bronze fennel (Foeniculum vulgare duler ‘Rubrum’) is one such multi-tasker. This fennel has smoky-brown foliage with red undertones. Slightly ...

Question: Is fennel bulb, the thing grown as a vegetable, the same thing as fennel weed we sometimes see on roadsides? I don’ t want to grow any if it will become a weed in my garden. Answer: Great ...

If you’re a gardener, you’ll understand: over the past several years, as often as I have visited my old neighborhood in New York, I have borrowed a car to run an errand and actually have gone to spy ...

When something goes wrong in the garden, it’s wise to ask why. When something goes unexpectedly right, the same question is in order. Take bulb fennel, also called Florence fennel. One is told that ...