Herb / Shoulder season
Bouquet Dill
Pickling herb, swallowtail host plant, and beneficial-insect border.
Fresh grassy fronds and aromatic seed heads.
Seed spacing and maturity
- Days to maturity
- 55
- Germination temperature
- 60-75F
- Seed depth
- 0.25 inches
- Spacing
- 8 inches
- Row spacing
- 18 inches
- Start method
- Direct sow
Frost-date timing
- Direct sow
- 7 days before last frost
- Fall planting
- 8 weeks before first frost
- Succession interval
- repeat every 21 days
Action plan
- Can I plant this now?
- Use your local last-frost, first-frost, and soil-temperature checks before treating this crop as plantable today.
- Start indoors or direct sow?
- Direct sow into the final bed when the soil temperature, seed depth, and moisture are ready.
- How much space?
- 8 inches in-row spacing, 18 inches between rows, and 0.25 inch seed depth.
- Best companions?
- Use this as part of a diverse flowering or herb planting, and treat companion claims as site-specific rather than guaranteed pest control.
- Common failure modes?
- Transplanting is unreliable; sow a few small patches instead. Moderate water; avoid soggy soil. Well-drained soil; direct sow to avoid taproot disturbance.
Growing profile
- Sun
- Full sun
- Water
- Moderate water; avoid soggy soil.
- Soil
- Well-drained soil; direct sow to avoid taproot disturbance.
- Watch
- Transplanting is unreliable; sow a few small patches instead.
- herb
- beneficial-insects
- pickling
- host-plant
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Source: Seed Savers seed saving guide