Bolting fennel

It won't bulb now, so unless you want some seeds for cooking with, I would pull it out and plant something else.

I grow Finale fennel and that almost never bolts, if you want another go next year 

Thanks New shoot and JayG - I suspect you're right. I wonder if the May cold snap made them think they had gone through a winter already. I will check Finale out - slow bolting sounds good!

I have just checked my diary on here and the fennel was sown 12th March into modules.  A couple of seeds per module that I thinned to a single seedling.  They got planted out on the plot 3rd May.  This is a variety that will stand very early sowing and it coped with the odd weather this year no problem at all.  I did water it over the really dry spell, when it got a really good soak once a week,

Link to daily harvest where I posted a piccy of the first few bulbs

https://chat.allotment-garden.org/index.php?topic=129358.msg1537296#msg1537296

I have a follow on crop that got planted out a week or so ago.  I think I sowed them mid July ... ish    I had plenty of seeds and some space on the plot, so thought I would try for another crop