Herb 'Bouquet Dill'

Most widely grown. Good seed and leaf yields. Early flowering plants produce large blooms, seed umbels, and foliage on long stems, making Bouquet the preferred dill for cut-flower use and pickling. Edible seeds, flowers, and greens flavor many foods. Popular addition to sauces, salads, and soup. Foliage known as dill weed.

The structure of dill's flowers is known as an umbel. Thus dill is considered an umbelliferous plant. Other umbellifers include carrots, cilantro, fennel, parsnips, and Ammi. All of these plants are attractive to predatory insects such as lady beetles, Syrphid flies (hover-flies), lacewings, and tiny parasitoid wasps.

DETAILS:

QTY: 100

SITE: Sun

TYPE: Annual

DEPTH: Cover lightly - Light Needed

GERMINATION: 10-21 Days at 15-20°C

MATURITY: 70 Days

HEIGHT: 18-24"

SPACING: 6"

HOW TO GROW:
Direct sow late spring through summer, or sow when cucumbers are transplanted, to coincide maturity for pickling. Dill tends to bolt if transplanted, so it is best direct sown. Stagger the harvest by sowing every 2-3 weeks for a constant supply of fresh leaves.