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Dill: competent planting of your favorite folk greens. How to plant dill to provide the family with fresh herbs all year round

The most favorite spice on our table and the most common in the beds is easily grown both in open ground and on kitchen windowsills.

Any housewife, even without the experience of a gardener, can grow dill and make this herb available on her table. all year round. We bring to your attention several ways and nuances for successful cultivation this spicy herb bright green.

Sowing dates for dill in spring

Greenery calmly tolerates cold down to -5 ° C. You can start planting in the middle of spring, when severe frosts are behind and the temperature is above zero during the day. Of course, it all depends on the region. On average, seeds are sown in early May, at the end of April.

You can grow it all summer until August, and in warm areas until October. Podzimnaya landing occurs in October - early November.

Soil preparation

Dill does not like acidic soils. Ideal environment for him fertile soil, well fertilized with humus. For every sq. m. is used about half a bucket of humus. An alternative to humus can be bird droppings or cowshed. It is also recommended to add ammonium nitrate to the soil.

We carry out top dressing with potassium, phosphorus.

Dill does not like drought, it is photophilous. The beds harvested under it should not be blocked from the sun, the earth should always be moist.

Seeds can be planted dry. But if you want to get a crop faster, then you should soak them.

Soaking is carried out according to the following scheme: the seeds are folded into a gauze bag (or simply wrapped), which is then soaked with water. In a wet cloth, they should lie for 2-3 days.

• In the beds, grooves are dug 5-7 cm wide and 2-3 cm deep, and watered immediately before sowing.
• Sow the seeds in a zigzag motion.
• After the hole, they are covered with soil with humus.
• Watering in the next few days is not necessary.

Germination

After a couple of weeks (sometimes earlier, sometimes later, depending on the variety), you will see the first shoots. It is impossible for the bushes to grow close, so they must be thinned out so that a distance of 8-10 cm is maintained between them. Otherwise, the dill will be undersized, and the lower stems will quickly turn yellow.

You need to water the soil so that it always remains moist.

To constantly have a fresh crop, dill seed is sown every 15-20 days throughout the season.

Summer planting and care of dill in July and August

In the technology of soil and seed preparation, there are no differences between planting in spring and in the middle or end of summer. But the peculiarity of sowing in July and August is that usually the garden is already densely occupied with plants. And dill is not good-neighbourly with every culture.

It is best to plant greens next to cucumbers, cabbage or tomatoes. But next to carrots, it cannot be planted because of the pest "carrot" fly. She can destroy the entire dill crop. Some large-shrub vegetables will block the light of the dill - so we try not to settle the dill to such neighbors.

Also in the hot season, the soil requires more frequent and plentiful watering.

How to grow dill before winter

From mid-October to mid-November, greens are planted in winter to get a crop in early spring.

The beds are prepared in the standard way for dill, only the grooves need to be made 2 times deeper. Once a month, seedlings are recommended to be fed with mineral fertilizers.

Dill winters well in fertile soil and under the snow. The first sprouts will be visible in early March. The plant does not require warming.

Due to the "compliant" nature of dill, you can even grow it on the windowsill of your own apartment. Best for this sowing:

• "Gribovsky" early ripe variety,
• "Umbrella" mid-season variety,
• "Richelieu" mid-season variety,
• "Kibray" mid-season variety.

In the store you can buy soil with humus for indoor plants(biohumus). It is better to choose a capacious container for greenery. The side of the window sill where you plan to grow the spice should be sunny.

• Otherwise, the sowing rules are the same as for the beds: the seeds are soaked, and small depressions and watering are made in the ground.
• Then, when the seeds are sown, the container is covered with a film for a week and cleaned in a warm, dark place. After 7-8 days, open and put on the windowsill.
• At home, you can grow dill and in winter time, but then you will have to install fluorescent lamps above it and turn them on daily for 5-6 hours.

For a consistent harvest, plant new seeds into the soil every two weeks after harvesting the first crop.

As you can see, to grow dill at home, even in the open field, even on the windowsill, it does not require large material costs and incredible efforts - everything is simple and affordable. We wish you a successful sowing of your favorite greens and an invariably generous harvest!

Not all summer residents know how to grow dill in a greenhouse and in open ground conditions. Meanwhile, many owners of their own plots want to plant such a spice. To collect good harvest, you need to know how to properly grow dill, what soil is best for it and what varieties should be used in the climate of our country.

Before you grow dill, you should know that such a plant normally tolerates low temperatures and weak frosts, as it belongs to cold-resistant crops. Seeds can begin to germinate already at +3°C. But it is important to consider that they require preliminary preparation. Due to it, the concentration of essential oils in the seeds of this plant will decrease. As a result, it will be possible to accelerate their germination.

Having decided to grow dill, you should know that it is one of those plants that need good illumination. Therefore, planting the seeds of this plant should not be done under branchy trees, next to large shrubs.

When growing dill in open ground or in a greenhouse, it is important to know that a good crop of greenery can only be harvested if the soil is lightly fertile and free of all kinds of weeds. It is best to grow dill in those beds where cucumbers, cabbage and other crops that were fertilized with manure previously grew.

Grow this green on dry soils in large quantities and for short term fail. In this case, the plants begin to form a stem earlier, which reduces the number of individual leaves. As a result, bushes on dry soils are more suitable for obtaining seeds.

It is recommended to prepare the soil for planting, for this it is necessary that the earth be weeded and slightly loosened. Additionally, it is recommended to add ammonium nitrate, superphosphate and potassium chloride to the soil. Planting seeds should be carried out at the rate of 70-80 kg per hectare for light soil and 40-60 kg per hectare for heavy soils.

Growing dill in a greenhouse and open ground can be carried out using early, ordinary and late-ripening varieties. It is important to consider that those species that ripen quickly do not differ in the splendor of the bushes, and if you do not harvest in a timely manner, it will lose its presentation. Deciding to plant an early variety of dill, you must also keep in mind that, unlike ordinary species, it will ripen only 10 days earlier. Therefore, if you grow it for yourself, then it is better to stay on traditional varieties. It is also recommended to plant late-ripening species. Then you will have the opportunity to put fresh greens on the table until September. Late-ripening species are distinguished by an abundance of foliage and mass. You can sow them in late May and early June.

Seed preparation and planting

Agricultural technology involves the preparation of seeds. It can be produced using bubbling technology. Here you need to soak the seeds in clean water, which must be constantly saturated with oxygen. To do this, many summer residents use a conventional compressor for aquariums. Duration similar procedure should be about 20 hours. It is important to ensure that the water temperature is within + 19 ... + 21 ° С. If during this procedure some of the seeds hatch, then they will need to be planted immediately.

You can also use the classic way. It provides for the preparation of the seed in ordinary water. They are soaked in liquid for 2-3 days. It is important to change the water to a new one every 7 hours.

Not everyone knows how to properly plant dill. It is necessary to moisten the soil before such a procedure. But this should only be done if the landing occurs at the beginning of the season. Some decide to plant dill before winter. In this case, you can only slightly moisten the grooves of the beds with water. Next, the seeds are scattered on the prepared soil and lightly covered with dry earth. The sowing depth should not be too large - no more than 1-2 cm. Do not forget to observe optimal distance between the beds, which is 20-30 cm.

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Greenery care and harvesting

By growing dill in a greenhouse or open field, you can start harvesting as early as 30-40 days after planting. After this period, the plants reach 5 cm in height. They already have everything they need. nutritional value. However, you can wait until the bushes reach 15-20 cm in height. To delay more with the harvest is highly undesirable. The fact is that inflorescences will begin to form on the bushes, and the greens themselves will lose their taste.

When growing dill in open ground or in a greenhouse, do not forget about regular watering. If you do not follow these recommendations, then the greens will turn yellow and wither very quickly.

Feeding during the period of its cultivation is not required.

Knowing how to grow dill correctly, you can reap a good harvest. At the same time, greens can be collected throughout the season, delighting yourself and your loved ones with fresh spice.

Always having fresh herbs on hand is very important for those who like to cook on their own and take care of their diet. And if you have your land plot then you can afford it. Most often, we grow the most common crops in our latitudes - dill, parsley. They are unpretentious and do not require a lot of space and careful care. But it is very important to know how to plant dill and parsley in the country so that they give a good harvest and do not wither during growth.

Parsley

Parsley has long and firmly occupied one of the first places among our favorite spices. You can grow two types of parsley on your plot:

• sheet (as well as curly) - to improve the taste and decorate dishes;
• root - for making sauces, pickling and pickling vegetables.

How to plant

Parsley is unpretentious, but will require a little attention. Sowing is done in April, or before winter, in November. In the second case, parsley will begin to sprout a little time after the snow melts.

Properly prepare the soil for planting parsley

The advantage of parsley is that it is undemanding to lighting. Before you grow parsley in the country, you can choose a site for sowing both in an open sunny place and in the shade. On sunny side seedlings will appear earlier.

1. Place parsley seeds on a damp cloth (preferably gauze) spread on a flat plate and leave for 3-5 days. After they begin to germinate, plant them in the ground.
2. Prepare the soil in the garden before planting. Carefully water the weed grass, choosing the roots, loosen the soil, break up the clods.
3. Make grooves about 2 centimeters deep, maintaining a distance of about 10 cm between them. It is better to take care of this in advance, during the autumn harvesting of the garden, when organic and mineral fertilizers. In the spring, apply additional urea, ammonium nitrate and potassium-phosphorus fertilizers.
4. You can not pre-soak the seeds, but sow them dry in the prepared soil. But in this case, parsley will rise much later. For example. If the landing time is the second half of April, then noticeable shoots will appear by the end of May.
5. Cover the area with the sown parsley polyethylene film. This will help protect seedlings from sudden cold weather.

Be sure to water the parsley bed, especially during the dry season. This will prevent the plant from turning yellow after cutting the leaves.

So that parsley is constantly in your diet, sow it in stages, about 1 time in 2 weeks. Thus, when you take off one crop, the second will be "on the way." After the parsley sprouts, thin it out, leaving 7-15 cm between the bushes for the root variety and 20 cm for the leaf variety.

In addition to sowing seeds, you can grow greenery seedlings. Parsley - biennial plant, so you can make a distillation in the winter, and get fresh parsley in the spring. Take a few seedlings of root parsley, and plant in early spring in high bed. Before planting, store seedlings in the basement, lowering the roots into wet sand.

Proper planting and care will provide you with a rich parsley crop.

Seedlings can be planted at the end of March leaf parsley. Its growth will be long, in a month bushes will begin to form. In this case, you need to choose an unshaded area for the bed. Already in early May you will have a lot of fresh greens.

Parsley tolerates cold well down to -7 degrees below zero and does not die after snowfall, continuing to grow.

At the end of autumn root parsley harvested in the same way as carrots: dug up, placed in boxes with dry sand and lowered into the basement. If the parsley bed is high and dry, leave a few roots in the soil so that in the spring, after the snow melts, you get fresh greens.

Dill

It is impossible to imagine our cuisine without dill. Greens, flowers and seeds of this plant are used fresh in salads, first and second courses, preservation.

How to plant

Before planting, prepare dill seeds so that later the plants turn out to be juicy and bushy.

1. Fold the seeds, like parsley, into damp cheesecloth, and leave for 3 days. At the same time, constantly check that the gauze does not dry out, and the moisture temperature is about +50 degrees. You need to change the water about 5 times a day.
2. Having processed the seeds hot water, put them on cheesecloth or in gauze bags, and cover with a damp cloth or steamed sawdust. Leave for 4 days at a temperature of +20 degrees. During this time, the seeds will hatch.
3. Dry the seeds for about half an hour immediately before sowing. Plant in well-drained soil.
4. Landing can be done in April, after the snow melts. Parsley is not afraid of small cold spells, it can grow at +3 degrees, but the best temperature regime from 15 to 20 degrees.
5. It is better to prepare beds for dill in the fall. Dig up the earth 20 cm, fertilize with minerals and humus. In the spring, loosen and level the surface of the soil, make grooves 2 cm deep, with a distance of 20 cm between them, water and sow the seeds, sprinkle with earth and compact a little.

Note! When you have just sown the seeds of dill and parsley, you do not need to water the bed for 2-3 days after that. Water can significantly bury crops in the soil, and this will slow down the growth of greenery.

Unlike parsley, dill should be sown only in a sunny, unshaded area, otherwise the plant will turn out to be weak and dryish.

Make sure the dill doesn't go into the stem too early.

To prevent the dill from going into stems and flowers too early, keep the soil moist at all times. Also, for this, you need to constantly thin out the plantings, leaving a distance of 8-10 cm between the bushes. This will ensure the growth of dill in density, and not up.

Dill does not need to be fed while growing. Since it is early maturing, it has enough fertilizers obtained from the soil. But if the bushes begin to turn yellow, this is a signal of a lack of nitrogen.

The crop is harvested 3-4 weeks after germination. At this time, the height of the greenery is 20-30 cm. Just pull the dill out of the soil right from the root.

Greenery in your backyard

You can grow dill and parsley on a windowsill. In this case, good, strong bushes will appear in a month. So you save seeds, and get more greenery.

Dill can be planted even in winter. Free the bed from snow, spread the seeds and cover with a layer of earth with humus. When the snow melts, the seeds under the influence of water will go underground and sprout there. In the spring, cover the bed with a film, securing it around the edges. This way you will get greenery 1-2 weeks earlier than with spring planting.

You can grow dill and parsley in the country all year round, for example, in winter - on the windowsill

Each variety of dill and parsley has its own characteristics. Some of them are more frost-resistant, some are not afraid of dryness or shading. Consider the most popular varieties more.

1. Dill of the Lesnogorodsky variety has a strong aroma and retains juicy greenery even during the formation of flowers and seeds. The bush is tall, lush. Sowing is carried out at the end of May.
2. Gribovsky variety is early ripening, sown in spring. not picky about heat, resistant to disease, gives a good harvest.
3. The new variety Kibray is late-ripening, has wide beautiful leaves. In the spring, it is planted in a greenhouse, since this variety is thermophilic and can get sick in cool summers.
4. Variety Umbrella is new, it is early ripening, gives abundant greenery of medium size. Grows well in greenhouses.

There are other varieties:

• Esto;
• Hanok;
• Superducat;
• Dill;
• Kaskelensky.

They are not as popular because they do not have special properties, but quite unpretentious in cultivation and care. With these varieties, you can also get a good harvest.

Video on how to grow dill and parsley in the country

We hope that our tips will help you grow parsley and dill properly in order to provide your diet with greens, rich in vitamins. If you have any questions, please ask them in the comments. Have a good harvest!

Fragrant, vitamin-rich fluffy bushes, unpretentious in cultivation and growing in any conditions - dill familiar to everyone. To obtain early fresh greens, especially valuable in a meager spring diet, you should know the nuances of planting in the open field and care. Knowing when and how to plant dill, at what stage of development and how to fertilize, will help to reap a rich harvest.

Varieties: which one to choose

Types of culture differ in many characteristics, of which the most significant is the ripening period. To continuously obtain a fresh product, a conveyor method of growing it from seeds is practiced by repeated crops every 10-14 days.

At the end of May, early varieties are sown in order to get the "umbrellas" necessary for conservation by mid-summer, and in July - late-ripening ones.

Knowledge of varieties is necessary, because how to grow good dill it is possible, using only those of them that are zoned for breeding in a given region:

• the early ones include Dalniy, Redut, Gribovsky. The period from germination to the beginning of stalking under conditions middle lane takes them 35-40 days. The number of formed leaves is 4-6. They switch to flowering immediately upon reaching marketable ripeness (in heat and drought - faster);
• mid-season include Lesnogorodsky, Richelieu, Borey and others. Stem formation begins 5-10 days later than the early ones. Leaves also form more - 6-10 pieces. They manage to form everything - greens, umbrellas, seeds of wax ripeness;
• more leafy rosettes of late-ripening varieties contain more than 10 leaves. The period between germination and stemming takes 65-70 days, because the yield of late varieties of dill - Alligator, Hoarfrost, Amazon - is the highest. These are bush types of culture, so the agricultural technology of their cultivation is different from early varieties: they are sown not so densely and must be thinned out, leaving a distance of 15-20 cm.

When to sow dill

In fact, there is not much difference when planting dill: in order to obtain both greenery and seeds, it is sown in the fall before winter and in spring, as soon as the snow melts. Frosts are not terrible for a vegetable, it can withstand temperatures drop to -4 ° C, and it will germinate only when the thermometer steadily shows at least + 3 ° C. Winter crops are sown in open ground end of October - first decade of November. Growing dill in this way allows you to get greens to the table in the early stages.

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Vegetables can be sown throughout the season - plant as many times as you like until mid-August. It grows rapidly, and although the total volume of the crop summer plantings below the autumn-spring ones, it will have time to grow not only greens for eating, but also umbrellas used in conservation. In late autumn, being touched by frost, it dries up and changes color, becoming brown-red.

Knowing how to properly plant dill of the selected variety is important: agricultural technology for growing vegetables on greens is usually focused on early, early maturing varieties. Their economic shelf life is less than a week, and therefore they are sown thickly and harvested quickly.

Late varieties are more productive, but require more planting, and therefore are more oppressed by weeds. So that it takes less effort and time to grow a vegetable and take care of it, after sowing dill on beds in open ground, it is useful to carry out pre-emergence treatment (a day or two before sprouts appear) with Roundup.

The shelf life of seeds for planting is 2-3 years.

Preparing the beds and seeds

Using the knowledge of how to grow dill correctly, you can get a pleasing look, a bountiful crop of culture with the least investment of effort.

Soil Requirements

When growing dill in open ground beds, it is advisable to choose a well-lit area. It will grow in the shade, but in the light the volume of greenery will be greater, its color will be saturated.

The plant loves neutral, loose soils, well ventilated and hygroscopic. The vegetable does not require fertility, being content with top dressing received by its predecessors last year - almost any vegetable, except for celery.

• organic matter - humus or compost, a bucket per square meter area;
• mineral preparations - superphosphate, 2 tablespoons for the same area);
• potassium salt, a tablespoon is enough.

If in the spring they stagnate on the site melt water, beds for vegetables, it is desirable to make high.

Seed preparation

Podzimny sowing of dill is carried out with dry seeds (in autumn they do not need to germinate, but in spring there is enough moisture in the soil), and for effective spring and summer sowing, you should know how to prepare it for planting.

The corresponding work aimed at making the dill rise faster begins six days before the sowing time:

• folded into a thin cloth or gauze and soaked seeds in hot water(50°C) for 3 days. At least 5 times a day, change the water to fresh;
• lay out the seeds on a cloth moistened with water, sprinkle a little with wet sawdust and leave for another 4 days at room temperature+20°C;
• dry a little and start sowing.

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Treating seeds additionally in hydrogen peroxide not only promotes their accelerated germination, but also disinfects, strengthens immunity and the ability to tolerate temperature changes, and increases germination. A tablespoon of a 3% peroxide solution is diluted in half a liter of water. The seeds are wrapped in cloth and dipped in the solution for 12 hours. It is advisable to change it to fresh every 4-6 hours.

Such preparation allows you to speed up germination and get seedlings in 5-6 days, and knowing how to plant dill will allow you to do it correctly and efficiently.

Spring sowing technology

When planting dill seeds in open ground, they do it on a prepared flat surface grooves about 2 cm deep. Leave 20 cm between them. To facilitate the care of the vegetable, it is better to make the grooves wide and lay the seeds in a zigzag. For fast germination, sow in moist soil.

In order to avoid excessive thickening, no more than 1 g of seeds is consumed per square meter, and even less for late varieties. Sprinkle with loose earth and do not water for the first 2 days, so as not to wash off the streams of water and not to deepen the sown material more deeply.

How long dill sprouts sprout after planting depends on the depth of their embedding. Subject to agrotechnical rules, they will appear in 5-10 days.

Podzimny sowing of dill

Even beginners in gardening know how to sow dill before winter: they do it with dry seeds in open ground in the fall, at the very end of it. There is no exact date for the winter planting of dill - you need to have time to finish it before frost. Shoots in the spring appear among the first, giving early harvest greenery.

A few secrets of growing dill before winter, which will speed up germination and increase yield:

• seeds are laid in the soil a little deeper than in spring, deepening them by 3-3.5 cm;
• their consumption is increased by a quarter;
• the beds after sowing are mulched with loose material.

dill care

The culture is unpretentious and requires little care. She needs nutrition, loosening and watering. Bushes should also be inspected for early detection of diseases and pest attacks.

How to feed dill

The plant is responsive to feeding, however, it accumulates the nitrates necessary for its own to a harmful level, so it is better to use natural, natural supplements. Harmless nitrogen fertilizer for dill will be fermented nettle infusion.

Dill provides vitamin greens for salads and fragrant umbrellas for home canning for the winter. Dill seeds are often sown by themselves, and the plants grow in the beds, and even right in the furrows, anywhere. Most of this "harvest" has to be pulled out so that the dill does not interfere with the growth of other crops. So it's best plant dill seeds in open ground organized, in a designated area.

How to soak dill seeds before planting:

Dill seeds contain essential oils that delay their germination. They germinate dry only after 20-25 days. Seedlings will appear faster if soak dill seeds before planting in one of the solutions

• Ash solution. The seeds are washed in warm water, and then lowered into the ash solution, prepared in the proportion of 1 tablespoon of ash per 1 liter of water. Holding time: 1 day.
• Soaking in water. Seeds are placed in a gauze bag and placed in water. The seeds should swell but not germinate. The acceptable percentage of pecking during soaking is only 1-1.5 percent. You can use snow melt water.
• Potassium permanganate. Seeds are poured with water, changing it every 4 hours to wash the essential oils from the seeds. Then the dill seeds are immersed in a solution of potassium permanganate for 2 hours, washed, dried and started sowing.
• Solutions of microelements and growth biostimulants. Seeds disinfected in a solution of potassium permanganate or ash are dipped in a solution of trace elements, not washed, but only dried and planted.

You can not soak the dill seeds before planting, but put them in a cloth bag and bury them in the soil to a depth in the bayonet of a shovel. The earth must be damp and unheated. Do this 2 weeks before planting. Then the seeds are dug up, taken out of the bag and dried. After that, you can immediately sow. It is believed that seeds prepared in this way germinate in 4-5 days.

Most summer residents are not worried about Do I need to soak dill seeds before planting?. If you want to enjoy fragrant, vitamin greens earlier, then it is better not to be too lazy and soak. And dill seeds are planted before winter. With this method of planting, earlier shoots can also be achieved.

How to plant dill seeds:

The soil for planting dill is prepared in the same way as for other crops, nothing special. The earth should be dug up, loose, moderately fertilized and moist. In the garden, grooves are cut with a depth of 2-3 cm. And the distance between the grooves must be observed at 15-20 cm. The seeds are lowered into the ground at a distance of 1-2 cm from each other, sprinkled with earth and lightly watered.

Dill is a rather unpretentious plant, it tolerates cold and even frost well. But from a lack of moisture, the leaves grow coarse and small. It is convenient to grow dill in free, inconvenient places for growing other crops: the goat of greenhouses and hotbeds, on the unoccupied "tail" of the garden. The neighborhood of dill with cabbage and cucumbers is favorable. In one of the directories, we found the following scheme for creating a mixed bed:

• in the 1st row - head or leaf salad, compacted with parsnip; in 2m - cucumbers; in 3m - dill.

This placement of crops allows you to achieve optimal planting density and high yields.

Sowing is possible at several times, including spring and before winter. IN last case vitamin, fragrant greens will ripen earlier.
The first shoots will appear in about 2 weeks.

Sources of information: reference book "Seeds" (