How and When to Harvest Dill
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Do not wait too long to harvest your dill! You'll get the best flavor and most abundant, tender dill if you harvest before the flower heads form. Learn when and how to harvest including which leaves/fronds to pick and which to leave. Come join me in the garden.
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I was going to say "Short, informative, and to the point....but it seems that everyone has beat me to it. Thank you.
Thank you, this is direct and to the point. I missed my chance to pick spinach, so I started worrying about my other plants and I wanted to pick the dill a little too soon, (they're puny). I'll wait a little longer.
Ugh, don’t you just hate it when peak picking time passes you by! I harvested spinach today. Good luck with your dill.
I love your videos! Very much appreciate that they're straight and to the point.
Thanks!
That’s exactly the info I was looking for thanks
Yay! So glad you found the video helpful.
Thank you for video , I wasn’t sure when dill starts growing those seed heads , they are useful for pickling
So if I grow few dill plants I can harvest earlier parts I need and keep the head for pickling 🤗
You’re welcome!
For the first time in years i have a place where i can grow stuff and this video was very helpful
So great to have a place to grow things. Enjoy. Glad this video helped.
Thanks for sharing the knowladge ❤❤
My pleasure
Just what I was looking for, thanks for sharing a very clear and concise video!
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Wow. Thank you for making a video that actually gives me everything I want to know. I’m shocked.
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Thank you for explaining that so well. I'm always left unsure of how to get several harvest out of one dill plant. I always pick one or two leaves from each plant but before I know it they've all flowered.
Glad this helped. I totally understand wanting to be cautious by just picking a little here and there, but you have to nip the bud to stop the blooming. Happy harvesting!
@@GettyStewart so like basil pick the flowers right?
@@GuitarsAndSynths early in the season yes, but if you want dill seeds or the flower heads for pickling cucumbers, you'll want to leave some to grow mid to end July to coincide with your pickling cukes.
@@GettyStewart thank you! Yeah it is early and so I picked the flowers. Later in season when cukes arrive, will use flower heads for pickling.
Exactly what I was looking for. Thank you!
Great to hear!
Wonderful video, thank you! Clear, consise, and exactly what I needed to know. *New subscriber*
Thank you Melissa! Hope you enjoy the other videos too!
Thank you, first year planting dill. This is helpful!
You're welcome! Happy gardening.
Thanks for the helpful info! 👍🏼
You’re welcome! So glad to help. Happy harvesting!
Thanks for thisss❤
You're so welcome!
Great explanation, thanks!
You’re welcome! Glad to help!
Super helpful, thank you!!
Awesome, so glad it helped!
My dill got super tall and one is flowering. I'm going to take everything off of it and uproot it and drop some more seeds in. Next year I'm going to try succession planting. We eat the dill in all of our garden salads. I hope we have an extended growing season this year!
It's amazing how quickly it can take off. You could also let it go to seed and let it self seed. Enjoy.
Awesome info, needed that! Thank you!
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Thank you! Great info
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Thank you!! Love this video
Super, glad you found it helpful b
Thanks
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Well done.
Thanks
Well I learned I was to late. I let all my dill get the flowers because I didn't know it would lose flavor. I will now start more. Thank you for your helpful info! I am still preserving what I have for pickles. Waste not want not.
Yes! Use what you’ve got and have a plan for next time😀
Should I take the seed heads off in order to encourage leaf production?
Yes you can, the earlier the better. Pinch them off when you see them forming.
Thanks!
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Thank you for the video
You’re welcome. Happy harvesting!
Great vid!
Thanks! Hope you have a happy, bountiful dill harvest.
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Great video
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Awesome! I'll go out and harvest my dill now
Awesome.
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I thought I had carrots growing wild...turns out it was Dill.. beautiful her y snappy fresh Citrussyish scent?
I love dill - but if you were hoping for carrots - that would be disappointing!
very helpful thank you :)
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Good information tanq
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I am new to gardening and I let my dill go to seed quite early in the season. I noticed immediately that the flavor was not quite there like it used to be. It is still very early in the gardening season. Should I cut back the whole plant to encourage it to regrow from the beginning? I would rather use the leaves vs. the seeds for now and then gather seeds at the end of the season. Thank you for your help!
Annual plants like dill are pretty much done once they've gone to seed. They're job to continue the species by distributing seeds is done. I'm not sure that it will regrow by cutting it back, but you have nothing to lose, so go for it. You could also try growing new plants with some of those seeds. Good luck.
@@GettyStewart Thank you so much! at least I know for next year.
Are the dill seeds that you show at the very beginning harvestable for replanting? I didn't harvest my other seeds in time and they all kind of blew away and now I just have a couple of small ones that are producing these small seeds but I want to grow more dill.
If you want seeds for planting, let the flower mature and dry out until you see brown seeds. They will fall and re-seed on their own or you can cut the seed heads, shake the seeds out and keep them in a paper bag or envelope until next year and sow them wherever you want.
I didn't know you could freeze dill.
Is it better frozen?
I like it much better frozen than dried. I find the flavor lasts longers.
Hi. How do you differentiate dill from a dog fennel? Thanks
Dog fennel grows taller than dill. Dog fennel also has multistems coming from the root and the leaves form right off the stem. Dill has one stem from the ground and then the forks into leaflets where all the greens we eat are. Also the flower head is a wide umbel (think upside down umbrella shape) with tiny yellow flowers. If you are trying to identify something in your yard, do a google image search of both and compare to what you have. Good luck and remember don’t eat until you’re 100% confident.
@@GettyStewart Thank you so much for this information. My mom and I have been confused with this. I think what we have in the garden is dogfennel. It's been with us for 8years and I've never seen it bear a flower before. All along we thought it was a dill. We've bought it from a supermarket and I think sometimes people get confused too. I really appreciate this. Thanks again and happy gardening, Ma'am Stewart. 🌻
How long can it stay fresh in the freezer?
It starts to lose flavor after 6 months. It's still good to use, you'll just need a little more. I use mine up within 10 -12 months when I can harvest fresh dill again.
How do I preserve the flower heads for pickles. They are now yellow and lovely. Do I dehydrate and then use one flower per jar when I do my pickles? I only have one plant but it has grown very large. There are no green leaves to freeze. Mostly past their prime.
It would probably last in the fridge wrapped in paper towel for a week or so. Not sure if dehydrating would work, I’m afraid it would crumble in the process. I would try freezing it instead - never tried it, but what have you got to lose? Trying to time pickling season and dill heads is tough, that’s why I recommend early pruning to prolong the flowering season.
@@GettyStewart ok. Thanks. Yes. First time I am canning pickles in years. Used to help my mom every year but now I’m doing it alone.
Enjoy!
Will it finish the plant if I snip off the flowering seed head?
No cutting the flower or seed head won’t kill the plant, but if it has gone to seed already new growth will be slow
If i am making pickles, do i want the dill to go to seed?
LaughingblueSu I think that’s what she said at 0:40
Yes, you'd want the yellow flowers or early seed formation - I wouldn't use the fully dried brown seed heads.
My went to seed, can I still pull the leaves? Maybe it will not the full flavor?
Hi Marlene, For sure, you can still use the leaves no problem. You're right, you may get a little less flavour, but some flavour is better than none! Also, you could save the seeds and use those to add dill flavour. Let them ripen and dry fully. I like using them in dill bread like this one - www.gettystewart.com/no-knead-cottage-cheese-dill-bread/
How many seeds to grow one plant
One seed will grown into one plant. IF all goes well. Best to put in several seeds. Good luck.
If I harvest flowers early do they continue to produce flowers? TIA
Yes. If you prune or harvest the tender young growth as shown in the video, the flowers will still come later. Just stop pruning or cutting and the flowers will come.
@@GettyStewart thanks!
What is the popular food you use dill in?
I use dill with potatoes, beets, cucumbers, kohlrabi, peas, cauliflower, salads, in creamy salad dressings and dips, when making pickles, with fish, in white sauce, in soups and so on. When it's in season in my garden - it goes on just about everything! It pairs really well with lemon too.
Dang, water your dill 😂
If you come haul water to my garden plot!
What if it's like 6' tall
Hmm, I have seen tall dill, but never more than 3 feet. Are you sure it's dill? If it is and it's super tall like that and it's already flowering, just take whatever you need and enjoy. Let it flower and let it self seed for next year, or remove the flower heads so it doesn't spread seeds everywhere, you're call. If it's tall and hasn't flowered yet, you can do exactly the same thing
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How do the seeds get harvested? Can i leave the seed heads on for them to scatter seeds?
Yes, if you want the seeds just leave the flowers until they dry and scatter by themselves
Fennel seeds?
Fennel and dill both have feathery fern like leaves, but they taste very different. Fennel seeds and dill seeds look similar, but they taste different. Dill seeds can be used in cooking as well, they don't have that black licorice like flavour, so they're not interchangeable.
@@GettyStewart my doubt clear tanq andi
how do store/freeze your dill?
Get all the details here. www.gettystewart.com/how-to-freeze-and-save-dill/
@@GettyStewart awesome! thanks. My dill is 1.5 ft already....time to do some picking
Happy harvesting.
Nice presentation! Thanks.
But you have a very poor variety of dill, though, judging by what you grow... Poor foliage!
About 20 years ago, I saw a very bushy variety of dill that is ten times richer in foliage then what you grow.... I don't remember where exactly, except that it was somewhere in Oregon, USA.
My problem is the difficulty, or even better to say impossibility to find that kind of dill. All my attempts at locating to find and buy it were unsucsessful... But dill is still my No.1 herb, since my grand-grand parents came from Germany where dill, as a cuisine herb, is very honored... Same could be said about Poland, Ukraine, Chekia and Slovakia.
- So, if by any chance you have some information about the bushy kind of dill (name, place to get it from, etc.), I would be very-very obliged to you if you could share it here... Thanks a lot.
I was born in Germany and was weaned on dill! You may be referring to fern leaf dill. It’s super bushy but I find it lacks the flavour of the dill I have, which self seeds in such abundance every year that I’ve never felt lacking. I’ll take the flavour over the bushiness anyway!
@@GettyStewart- Thanks for your prompt response. I'm aware of it, but it was a real dill, as I tasted it... I wish I had property at that time as I have it now...