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This weekend I had two full days to really focus on the yard, and I made the most of it. With the intermittent help of several others over the course of the weekend, I got both easement planter boxes filled with compost and soil, cleaned up and weeded the alley, got the stump pulled from the coni…
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Dill
- 50
- plantings
- 6
- harvests
- 8
- seed packets
Dill facts
Lifespan
Annual
living and reproducing in a single year or less
18 weeks
median lifespan
First harvest expected
6
weeks after planting
Last harvest expected
10
weeks after planting
Days until maturity
60–70 days median of members' seed packetsGrown for
leaf harvested 6 times
Optimal temperature
15–18 °C
Absolute temperature
6–26 °C
FAO EcoCrop
Optimal rainfall
800–1200 mm/year
Absolute rainfall
500–1700 mm/year
FAO EcoCrop
Optimal soil pH
6–7
Absolute soil pH
5–8
FAO EcoCrop
Crop cycle
100–180 days
FAO EcoCrop
Max altitude
2000 m
FAO EcoCrop
Optimal light
clear skies
FAO EcoCrop
What are growing degree days?
A plant grows with warmth, not with days. A growing degree day is one day's worth of useful warmth: how many degrees the day's average temperature is above the lowest temperature the crop grows at. Add them up from planting and you know how far along the crop is, whatever the calendar says.
Say that lowest temperature is 10°C. A day averaging 17°C gives 7 growing degree days. A day averaging 8°C gives none, as it is too cold for the crop to grow. That is why the same lettuce takes about 50 days in a summer and 90 in an autumn: it needs the same total warmth either way.
For dill, the FAO EcoCrop database gives a lowest growing temperature of 6°C and a shortest growing cycle of 100 days at its best temperature, about 1050 growing degree days to a first harvest.
Where you've told us where your garden is, we use this and the weather there to predict when your dill will be ready to harvest. We don't use it for how long a plant lives or when it finishes: we go by what members have logged for that.
Growing dill
- Dig compost into the bed 1 week before sowing
- Water regularly at sowing every week
- Thin the seedlings 2 weeks after sowing
- Sow another batch 3 weeks after sowing every month
- Pick the fronds at first harvest every week
- Collect the seed heads 8 weeks after first harvest
- Pull out finished plants 10 weeks after first harvest
How members grow dill
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What people are saying about dill
Coming together
by shawnacscott,
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lavender
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basils
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New feature - crop mentions!
by Skud,
So we have this new feature where if you mention a crop like tomato or lemon or dill using the Markdown syntax (like: [dill](crop)), your post will show up on the crop page. Click through to any of those crops, scroll down, and take a look!
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No subject
by oakandsage,
My raspberry are flowering!
Anyone whose english pea plants yield spherical peas must be a saint. I only get spherical peas if I miss a pod. In the evening I sit out in the garden and eat peas until there is nothing worth eating left on the plant. Then I am done…
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Garden trouble!
by oakandsage,
Something's skeletonizing my carrots and dill. It did a number on the sweet basil I planted, and is taking out the kale plants one by one. I haven't caught it in the act yet, though I've seen a couple big fat grasshoppers around; they're pretty lik…
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Who's planted dill
- shiny The Deck · Wellington, NZ
- valgrind Vegetable Garden
- corvi Cove bed · salt spring island
- midiprincess North Bed 2 · 94122
- Doublelune Container Garden
Dill harvests
-
shiny harvested not specified.
over 6 years ago
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shiny harvested not specified.
over 6 years ago
-
shiny harvested 3 sprigs.
almost 7 years ago
shiny harvested not specified.
Find dill seeds
- shawnacscott will trade nationally.
- pazinjanka will trade locally.
- shiny will trade locally.
- View all dill seeds 8
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- Purchase seeds via Ebay
- Sign in or sign up to list your seeds to trade.
Time to harvest
If sown now, expect a first harvest in about 100 to 180 days.
From the growing cycle in the FAO EcoCrop database, which is the same wherever it is grown.
Ecological requirements
Data from the FAO EcoCrop database for Anethum graveolens L.
| Family / Taxonomy | Magnoliopsida Rosidae Apiales Umbelliferae |
|---|---|
| Killing temperature | growth: 0 °C, rest: -2 °C |
| Life form | herb |
| Life span | annual, biennial |
| Habit | erect |
| Optimal soil depth | shallow (20-50 cm) |
| Optimal soil texture | medium |
| Optimal soil fertility | high |
| Optimal soil drainage | well (dry spells) |
| Optimal soil salinity | low (<4 dS/m) |
| Photoperiod | long day (>14 hours) |
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