If you’re planting dill pickling, plant every few weeks into midsummer to ensure a constant supply for when the harvest begins!

To create a permanent patch of dill, allow some of the plants to flower and go to seed each year—you’ll have plenty of early dill to start the season.

Dill attracts beneficial insects such as wasps and other predatory insects to your garden, and is a host plant for the caterpillar of the black swallowtail butterfly.

• Water the plants freely during the growing season, ensuring that they don’t dry out excessively.
• In order to ensure a season-long fresh supply of dill, continue sowing seeds every few weeks. For an extended harvest, do not allow flowers to grow on the plants.
• If dill is allowed to go to seed and the soil isn’t disturbed too much, more dill plants will likely appear next spring.