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How to sow anise: Direct seed outdoors and thin seedlings to 15cm. Does not transplant well due to taproot.
Sun requirement for anise: Plant in Full Sun
Anise is an annual flowering plant in the family Apiaceae whose seeds have a licorice-like flavor and are used to season teas, baked goods, and liquor. Anise was used in traditional European herbalism to treat flatulence. The plant has groupings of small white flowers and can also be grown as an ornamental. Although their names and flavors are similar, Anise is separate from Anise Hyssop (Agastache foeniculum), which is a member of the Mint family and Star Anise (Illicium verum), a mid-sized evergreen tree that produces star-shaped, licorice-flavored pericaps on its fruits.
A plant grows with warmth, not with days. A growing degree day is one day's worth of useful warmth: how many degrees the day's average temperature is above the lowest temperature the crop grows at. Add them up from planting and you know how far along the crop is, whatever the calendar says.
Say that lowest temperature is 10°C. A day averaging 17°C gives 7 growing degree days. A day averaging 8°C gives none, as it is too cold for the crop to grow. That is why the same lettuce takes about 50 days in a summer and 90 in an autumn: it needs the same total warmth either way.
For anise, the FAO EcoCrop database gives a lowest growing temperature of 5°C and a shortest growing cycle of 120 days at its best temperature, about 2040 growing degree days to a first harvest.
Where you've told us where your garden is, we use this and the weather there to predict when your anise will be ready to harvest. We don't use it for how long a plant lives or when it finishes: we go by what members have logged for that.
by inkstone,
I originally wanted to do this yesterday but it rained in the morning so that kinda put a damper on things.
So I did it all today instead! A bunch of the seeds I wintersowed in the milk jugs and soda bottles were getting crowded so it was time to move them to their bigger (permanent) containers….
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If sown now, expect a first harvest in about 120 to 150 days.
From the growing cycle in the FAO EcoCrop database, which is the same wherever it is grown.
Data from the FAO EcoCrop database for Pimpinella anisum L.
| Family / Taxonomy | Magnoliopsida Rosidae Apiales Umbelliferae |
|---|---|
| Life form | herb |
| Life span | annual |
| Habit | erect |
| Optimal soil depth | medium (50-150 cm) |
| Optimal soil texture | medium |
| Optimal soil fertility | high |
| Optimal soil drainage | well (dry spells) |
| Optimal soil salinity | low (<4 dS/m) |
| Photoperiod | short day (<12 hours), neutral day (12-14 hours), long day (>14 hours) |
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