Pull the dill in the pot and harvest for the kitchen

Content

• Pull the dill in the pot and harvest for the kitchen
• The right irrigation for the dill
  
• Select the ideal planter for the dill
• Harvest dill from the pot for use in the kitchen
  
• Tips & Tricks

Pull the dill in the pot and harvest for the kitchen

Even if the dill (Anethum graveolens) is not particularly elaborate in the care, it nevertheless places certain conditions at its location. These can sometimes be met more easily in a pot in the pot as in the field.

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The right irrigation for the dill

Waterlogged dill usually does not like it, so it gets in heavy soils relatively easy foul roots and as a result, a certain brown color of aboveground plant parts. This problem does not occur when growing in a pot with a correspondingly loose soil substrate and a drainage layer or holes in the bottom of the pot. However, Dill tolerates drought for just a few days before it starts to wither in the summer. Therefore, depending on the weather, you should thoroughly water the dill grown in the pot every few days. Make sure not to over-water the umbels as this may favor the onset of diseases such as coneflower on the dill flower.

Select the ideal planter for the dill

On Umpflanzversuche the dill reacts usually relatively sensitive, so it should be sowed as soon as possible in the final vessel for the cultivation and harvest. This planter should again be no ordinary balcony box, but the highest possible plant pot. This gives the dill, which is a deep rooting, enough space for the development of its root system.

Harvest dill from the pot for use in the kitchen

Although the dill can often be more flexibly cultivated in terms of its lighting and location needs when grown in a pot, the pot culture often produces less large yields than the cultivation in the field. For pot and field cultivation, the dill seeds must be seeded equally before the end of June, if you want to harvest ripe dill seeds before winter. However, you can also use year-round dill plants to refine the following dishes with the dill tips:

Tips & Tricks

Often bought earths for the cultivation of dill in the pot provide better protection against diseases and pests than the use of their own substrates from the garden.

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