I planted my dill seeds this morning! If you love canning your own pickles or dilly beans then having fresh dill on hand for the growing season is a must!
Brief description: Dill is an extremely aromatic herb. It is a perennial or annual based on where it is grown. It’s a popular seasoning to add to fish, pickled veggies, and soups.
Where to Plant Dill: Plant dill in raised beds, garden beds or containers {dwarf varieties}.
Planting Seeds: Plant seeds 1-2 weeks before average last frost. Sow seeds at the surface of the dirt, as they need light to germinate. When seedlings are 3″ tall, thin to 1 every 12″.
Growing Tips: Dill prefers nice warm weather, and is super easy to grow. It is extremely drought tolerant, as it has a pretty long tap root. If you are not growing dill in groupings, you may need to provide a bit of support so it doesn’t topple over.
How to Harvest: You can snip off leaves as needed. To harvest dill seed, wait until the plant flowers, then collect the seeds once the blooms have dried out completely and gone to seed. Don’t wait too long though, because if seeds have a chance to disperse, you will have dill ALL OVER your yard.
Are you ready to start your garden but you’re not sure when you should plant your seeds or set out your transplants? Head on over HERE and you’ll be taken to a handy dandy chart that is broken down into what vegetables should be planted {or transplanted} each month in your area.
Anyone can do this. Dirt + Seeds+ Water = Food!
~Mavis
Fun Fact: Humans have been consuming dill for a LONG time. Remnants of dill were found in Swiss Neolithic settlements dating back to 400 BC.
Donna says
In my big garden, after growing dill for a few years, I started calling dill my ‘cover crop’. It really does take over a garden, but somehow, I never minded it. It was easy to hoe and pull, and did keep other weeds down in the early season. Weeding has never smelled so nice! It is also said to keep tomato worms away! I can say that I never had trouble with those pests there, so maybe it works.
OwlOak says
Greetings Mavis,
I enjoy your site and wanted to reinforce what you said about dill. Anyone can grow this herb if the soil is even moderately fertile.
At one time, a few decades ago, I had a fairly large garden, approx. 3000 sq./ft. (50 x60 feet) and grew a large number of vegetables and herbs, including dill (for the pickles and occasional flavoring of a dish).
My technique was to hoe a row about 1/2 inch deep and sprinkle the dill seed in it. I would then loosely cover it with dirt and ‘walk down it’. What this did was press the seeds into the ground and also form a bit of a depression for the water to accumulate.
I know, sounds radical but always had a bumper crop of dill. Also, I never thinned it. The plants grew fine and used each other for support.
Hugggs & B*B ~ OwlOak