One seed just saved me $8.00

[Kassaundra]

I don't make pickles (or even eat them to much) so I don't use a lot of dill, mostly just in salads or w/ sour cream and cukes. Anyway today I was making cukes and sour cream and realized I had no dill weed in the spice cabinet. Well I attempted to grow dill several times this year in several places and only got one lonely little dill plant that came very late and was tiney (very bad summer) the weather has improved greatly over the past few weeks so I went to check on my little dill and it had gotten big enough to harvest enough for the cuke salad! Woo hoo, since the least expensive small bottle of dill weed at the store was $8.00.

 

[momofdrew]

I always have trouble growing dill some years are worse then others...

 

[lesa]

Perfect! The garden comes through! My mom is a big Triscut cracker fan. They had a promotion which included a seed in the cardboard of the box. She brought this seed surprise to me... it was dill and it is the only dill I presently have blooming! Enjoy your pickles! For future- you can freeze the dill heads when they are ready ( and your cukes aren't).

 

[seedcorn]

Wish I could send you some of mine. Let seeds fall to the ground and it will become a weed.

 

[Kassaundra]

Wish I could send you some of mine. Let seeds fall to the ground and it will become a weed.

Oh if only! I have the same problem as momofdrew, I have a hard time growing it. Next year I intend to put a lot more effort into my culinary herbs though.

 

[vfem]

I didn't have a good dill season this year either. I got enough to do about 6 jars of dill pickles and some for a a recipe or 2, but that's all!

 

[digitS']

It can't take the heat . . . seems to me. Like cilantro in that . . .

I once asked someone who should know how it is that cilantro is in the soopermarkets thru the summer. (Dill is there also.) I was told: "Greenhouses." You know, it hadn't occurred to me . Seems like kind of a low-cost crop for greenhouse production but I guess that's not true.

Greenhouses not only are "hot houses" in winter, they are air conditioned thru the summer. With shading or without, the cooling system runs full tilt during hot days. When I worked in one, having 85F inside when it was 100F outdoors was what could be expected. Dill may be a little difficult but there may be mildew-resistant varieties. Cilantro is probably a cinch.

I've got small dill volunteers in the garden again ! It is a real favorite as a seasoning.

Steve

 

[hoodat]

I never have to plant dill. It just comes up all over the place by itself. I gave up saving dill seed after I had a quart jar full. The upside is that if I let the catterpillars go to work on it I have lots of black swallowtail butterflies in my garden.

 

[cityfarmer]

I am glad to hear others can't get dill to grow. I am lucky if I get one plant.

 

[hangin'witthepeeps]

I have to buy a started dill plant, every year, and then it doesn't do well.

I have discovered here in GA cilantro can be grown in the shade. If you keep picking it, you'll extend its season. So I plant a few seeds, when they start to grow in and I harvest the first time, I sow a few more. So when I'm pulling out the "old" ones, the new ones are growing in. I go through a lot of cilantro seed so that I always have it. I use a lot of cilantro. I never let it seed, I don't care for coriander.