404 · Bouquet Dill

About this plant

A compact, heavy-yielding dill grown for both its feathery blue-green foliage and its big seed heads. Snip the fronds for potatoes, salmon, yogurt sauces, and eggs, then let the umbels mature for pickling. An annual that does best in our cool season, so plant early; it bolts once heat arrives and self-sows readily if you let seed drop.

Planting it at home

When to plant out

Right away. Our low-desert planting window for cool-season plants ends about mid-February.

Where

Garden beds, Raised bed (long taproot — transplants poorly)

Spacing

12"

Size

24–36"

Care

Sun

Full sun (6–8 h)

Water

Moderate; let topsoil dry

Feed

Light feeding only; too much fertilizer weakens the flavor (general guide).

Good to know

Grown from

Seed — sown by FHCG volunteers

Uses

Salmon, potatoes, sauces, pickles

Harvest

Fronds, seed

Life cycle

Annual

Heirloom or hybrid

Heirloom — saved seeds grow true

Pollinators

High — bees, butterflies, beneficial wasps, hover flies; LARVAL HOST for black swallowtail

Heat (our summer)

Moderate–High