The right time to harvest dill
When the dill is harvested, between harvesting the tips of the dill and harvesting the dill seeds for kitchen purposes or a new one sowing can be distinguished. Depending on the time of sowing, young dill tips can sometimes be harvested from the herb pot or from outdoor cultivation as early as May. Individual dill tips in pieces of around 15 to 20 centimeters or even whole plants for processing or storage get cut.
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- Pull the dill in the pot and harvest it for the kitchen
- Grow and harvest dill yourself on the balcony
- Store dill properly after harvest
Harvest dill seeds for use as a condiment
If you want to harvest the seeds of the dill for use as a condiment, you must have the sowing outdoors by the end of June at the latest. Then the brown seeds on the initially yellow flower umbels can ripen by autumn. For easy harvest and processing When it comes to dill seeds, it has proven useful to cut off the entire flower umbels when they are fully ripe and to bundle them into small bunches. Hang the dill bouquets upside down in a well-ventilated place and put clean paper bags over the flower umbels from below. So the seeds fall as you advance
Drying in the paper bags and can be so easy for further storage be bottled.Harvest and use dill tips
When growing dill in smaller ones Pots there may be a rather weak growth of the plants come, because these are actually relatively deeply rooted. Nevertheless, the amount grown in the pot is often enough to use cut dill tips for the following foods:
- for a brew for pickling pickles
- as part of salads
- as a seasoning for fish dishes
- for dill potatoes as a traditional side dish
The storage of harvested dill
If you harvest the shoot tips of healthy dill plants correctly in a balanced ratio, you can cut and cut fresh dill several times if the site conditions are good to process. If you have particularly vigorously growing dill plants or want to create a winter supply, the question of the correct storage of dill arises. The best method of storing dill seeds is by drying them gently and storing them in a dry, well-ventilated place. Dill tips, on the other hand, are preferred for better flavor retention frozen. Freshly harvested dill retains its aroma for up to three weeks when stored in the refrigerator.
Tips & Tricks
If you want to self-sow dill in your garden, you should leave some flower umbels with seeds at harvest. The chances are then usually good that the dill will look for a new ideal location as a crop rotation plant close to the old location.
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