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What kind of hostess can do without dill in the beds? This greens is good for everyone: in fresh salads, and in preservation, and in dried form for soups! And what a power of vitamins and microelements lies in these thin graceful filamentous leaves! Not to mention the benefits of essential oil, the aroma of which we can feel by breaking a twig or rubbing seeds. One disappointment - this fragrant herb is used too quickly! But in the garden, you can create a real green container for the propagation of dill or sow it on beds already freed from other crops. Moreover, now is just the right time for this
Dill is good both fresh and prepared
In July, dill lovers have something to roam on! After all, for a whole month you can sow this spicy plant for consumption in a fresh green form. Plus, now is the perfect time to cut dill early in flowering. When fresh, the harvested crop is immediately used for pickling cucumbers.
But if you can't use the whole thing, you need to spread the stems in a thin layer on a cloth in a dry, warm room to let it dry thoroughly. Store such dried greens in glass jars or cloth bags. In autumn and winter, it will be an excellent seasoning for soups, boiled potatoes and other dishes. It is worth throwing a couple of dried sticks into a hot brew - and it will immediately have a truly summer aroma.
For those who like spicy food, you can prepare a fresh summer dressing for soups and borscht. To do this, dill is chopped with garlic and stored in a hermetically sealed container with salt.
Selection and preparation of a site for summer crops
For summer sowing of dill, fertile, weed-free and sufficiently moisture-rich land is needed. You should not expect a good harvest on poor sandy or clayey soils. For such soils, the introduction of manure will be a mandatory preliminary measure.
Dill sowing technology
Sowing dill is performed in an ordinary way. The seeds are planted to a depth of about 3 cm. The row spacing is kept at a distance of at least 10 cm, and an interval of about 2 cm is left between the plants. With this technology, an area of 1 sq. M. you will need about 2 g of seeds.
Dill can serve as a lighthouse crop or a compactor. This is more profitable than allocating separate beds for it. With this method of sowing, the plants will coexist well with potatoes, carrots, cucumbers, lettuce. But they do it at such a time so that the dill greens are not in the shade, otherwise it will have a pale appearance and the bunches will grow small.
Caring for dill beds
Dill care consists in abundant watering, loosening the beds. Make sure that the ground does not dry out or become covered with a hard crust. So that the dill does not stagnate in growth, too thick seedlings are thinned out. Feeding with ammonium nitrate with potassium salt will help accelerate development. It is performed 1-2 times for the entire growing season according to this recipe:
• 3 g of ammonium nitrate;
• 3 g of potassium salt;
• 1 liter of water.
This volume is used to fertilize the sowing area of about 0.3 square meters.
Dill has the greatest nutritional value when it reaches a height of about 12 cm. It is better to harvest in the morning. They are removed from the beds along with the root. In this form, in a place protected from direct sunlight, the greens will retain their freshness longer.
Why plant dill in the fall?
Dill can be sown not only all spring and summer, but also during the autumn months. Such crops are carried out in order to get fresh greens as early as possible next year. The optimal dates for podwinter sowing of dill will be the last decade of October - the first half of November.
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