A tip for winter storage. I cut clean dill (but not wet) in bigger chunks- about 1cm, put in freezer safe bags and straight into freezer. They last a year! They stay nice and green, and when you add them to hot soup or whatever, they immediately defrost and look & taste nearly identical to fresh dill. Took me lots of experimenting and I haven’t heard about this tip anywhere else. I guess because they are so thin, they instant-freeze.
I'm a sixteen year old straight male, kinda weird for me to be liking this stuff but I believe everyone should learn the skill of planting and growing food
That's silly. If it was weird for a 16 yr old guy to like to grow things, the world would be void of farmers and therefore food. Do what you love! I'd love to find a guy who has been gardening since he was a teenager. That would be very attractive. ;)
Just picked some dill using your method! About to make some cucumber salad tonight! Also my cat loves the smell of it over my hands. Probably because she associates it with tuna! :) Grow on everyone!
I neglected my seedlings last year and they withered. This year I successfully moved 10 healthy plants out to the garden! I'm excited to see what this is all about.
Thank you for the great information about dill. This is my favorite herb, but it's my first time trying to grow it. I'm planting some near my cucumbers and some in a big pot at the base of a baby mandarin orange tree we planted a month or two ago. I make a couple of cucumber salads that both use dill, and fresh dill is always better. My Lebanese mother-in-law taught me how to cook almost 50 years ago, and a staple salad was diced cucumber with plain yogurt & dill - we have it a lot around here. I also make a German cucumber salad with thinly sliced cucumbers and red onions dressed with apple cider vinegar, a little sugar, and some freshly chopped dill. The taste makes me think of sunny summer days.
Hi Glynis, Thank you soooo much!!! I kept wondering what was going on why I could not grow my dill They were in with all my other vegetables in my raised garden beds. A lot of the lower leaves would turn yellow brown. Then the plants would never fill out full and bushy. They would be very sparse. Then during really hots days in summer not they would end up bolting. But now that you filled me in on everything that I was doing wrong lol I will give this a try again. 🙂👍🤞 Thank you again for your extremely helpful video I went ahead and subscribe to your channel 😊 can’t wait to checkout your other videos
I had some chicken salad last year @ a cafe that had just enough dill sprinkled around in it and that was so so good! Going to plant extra this yr and do this with my chicken salad. Sooo yummy!🥰
Almost all of the other info on it says to cut older leaves first... so I have absolutely ruined my 3 beautiful dill plants already. :( I will do it from the top next year and hope I have time to start over now, though it's already very hot.
Very helpful. I would have liked to see what an individual dill seed looks like. In the still scene at the end of this video showing the dried plant, is the seed inside the pod, and if so, what should the seed look like when you plant it? Do you remove it from the pod or do you just plant it in the pod? How deep? How much water to start? If pot planting, how moist should the dirt be? What if you want to transplant the baby dill plant to the garden outside? Is that advisable or not?
Awesome! I grew dill for the first time this year to go with the potatoes I am growing. Looks like I need to start harvesting and dehydrating and giving a ton away!
Hi Glynis good dill grower😊 . I like scrambled tofu with dill , 1-3 Tablespoons nutritional yeast, light oil. ❤Happy veganic Indian Springs riparian garden food Forester .
I need a lot of this my niece loves for me to make tzatziki sauce for her and this is a must for it, so I have some growing because I got sick of paying $3 for a little bit of it
My dill was bought as a dill start, I planted it and it grew tall and went straight to seed, very little "leaves." Has sun for 10 hours or direct sun in a raised bed. It gets hot, 8b.
Hi Glynis, you look amazing and your a good teacher. I have dill growing with my tomato plants in raised beds. They are at all different stages. I want to take pics of them and get your advice on what to do to them. I see some people have full thick shrub like dill. How is this achieved? Thanks Walt NJ
I'm growing a garden for the first time this year. We planted dill. How can I store the dill until my Cucumbers are ready to be pickled? How long is the dill good for stored, if it can be? Thank you for the video, very informative!
I can use some good advice for our dill plants that mom and I just planted. We’re also germinating our first cucumber pickle seeds for the purpose of making homemade pickles, which we’ll be needing dill for that.
Every time I try to grow dill it topples over. Do you have a certain pot that works best for dill? Also, do you have a recipe for making dill pickle chips? Love your channel!
I know this is an old video but I will ask anyway. I live in the Salt Lake Valley (Sandy City) We don't have a problem with humidity here but we get hot during the summer, high 90's and into the low hundreds. I always have a hard time finding dill weed/seed when it's time to put pickles up, so I was thinking of growing my own dill for both the weed and seed. How early does dill need to be started so it's ready when it's time to put pickles up? Pretty sure cucumbers will be ready long before the dill is ready. Is dill something I would need to grow and put away for the next years pickles or will it be ready for this years? Also will store bought spice bottled seed grow or do I need to order it from a seed company like True leaf market, Jung seeds, places like that? If store seed from the spice Isle will grow that is way cheaper than buying from a seed store.
My fill is falling over and looking very wilted and soft! Based on your video, I’m thinking it’s too hot and humid for it here in central Florida. If you know of anything I can do to help it, please let me know! I love using it on salmon! 😋
From all the videos that I am watching, I still don’t know where to cut the deal. I bought mine at the nursery and it was tall and lanky. No one is actually showing where to cut it.😡
How culture's are different in West dill mostly used as culinary herb so obviously ppl use it in very less quantities.. In India we use it as vegetable, green just like spinach in term of quantities 😂
At least 6 hours of sun daily depends on the climate. In hot climates 6 hours of sun will fry them to a crisp for example. You gotta be careful with this
