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Dill - Dukat
SKU:
DL03001A
CA$3.90
CA$3.90
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Approximately 450-550 seeds per gram.
Lot# DL03001
Anthenum graveolens
Dukat Dill is a delicious culinary herb that tends to produce much more foliage than most dills. It has a particularly fine bouquet and flavour which makes it an excellent variety to grow for homemade dill pickles. The darker-than-usual leaves are excellent fresh or dried. It grows 45-60cm (18-24″) tall and supports large 25 cm 10”umbrels. It is the sweetest of the various dill varieties with a pleasing taste and high yield.
Lot# DL03001
Anthenum graveolens
Dukat Dill is a delicious culinary herb that tends to produce much more foliage than most dills. It has a particularly fine bouquet and flavour which makes it an excellent variety to grow for homemade dill pickles. The darker-than-usual leaves are excellent fresh or dried. It grows 45-60cm (18-24″) tall and supports large 25 cm 10”umbrels. It is the sweetest of the various dill varieties with a pleasing taste and high yield.
Planting Instructions:
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Additional Information
Seed heads (umbrels) will begin forming around 12 weeks. When the first seeds have turned brown, cut the whole head and hang it upside down for the drying seeds to fall out into trays or paper bags. Dill leaf loses most of its flavour when dried, so it is best to freeze it in ice cube trays filled with water for use all winter. The structure of dills’ flowers is known as an umbel. Thus dill is considered an umbelliferous plant. Other umbellifers include carrots, cilantro, fennel, parsnips, and ammi. All of these plants are attractive to predatory insects such as lady beetles, syrphid flies (hover-flies), lacewings, and tiny parasitoid wasps, all of which are beneficial insects that will help control harmful pests like aphids, thrips, whitefly, and the caterpillar of the small white butterfly (cabbage moth). |