31/ kale and fennel 

In previous years, I would net all of my kale and fennel to protect from butterflies but I don’t have time anymore, so I just leave it to get chewed down by butterflies. When temps get cooler and the butterflies are finished for the season, that’s when I harvest fennel and kale. I use regular compost for fertilizer and grow beans in the same bed. I also grow kale in pots with tropical trees. Both plants reseed themselves, they are no-effort plants. Do ok in storms. 

 @adfbf87b is this bronze fennel, or the bulbing type?  I love to eat the bulbing type and I found it to be kind of perennial.  Cut a bulb, leave the root, and often I'd get a new bulb.

Sadly, I've only had butterflies eating it one year.  I like butterflies. 

 @ec45f895 just green fennel but not bulb fennel. I really like the bulbing type too but I think bugs would chew it up and it would be gross.