Choosing the best varieties of dill
Dill is one of the most popular spices in cooking. Without an umbrella of dill, the marinade will lose its aroma, and a salad without the dill aroma and needles scattered over the surface will not be so appetizing. Therefore, dill is used all year round, dry and fresh. The increased demand for fresh greens has created conditions for the production of many new varieties of dill, differing in maturity, color, foliage structure and plant appearance.
Features of dill varieties
As a result of selection work, varieties of three groups are presented on the rural market:
- early ripening;
- mid-season varieties;
- late-ripening varieties without umbrellas.
Two-year-old dill varieties can develop an umbrella when grown continuously throughout the year, but in the short summer of Russia they cannot produce seeds outdoors. This explains the high cost of hybrid seeds.
Early varieties
You can grow greens in spring from early maturing dill. Usually these are zoned varieties that form 4-6 leaves and an umbrella. These include old and newly created varieties, the period to stemming in which is 35-40 days. The fruits of fragrant dill are used in medicine and cooking.
Early ripe grade Anker
The new early ripening variety Anker manages to produce umbrellas and a sufficient amount of light greenery. Its yield is 2-3 kg / m2, which is not bad for a variety of early ripening. The anchor can be sown several times, harvesting enough young greenery. The aroma of this variety is of medium intensity.
Early ripening variety Redoubt
A variety with an exceptionally strong aroma. The plant is low, powerful rosette. The foliage is full, with a wax coating. The leaf is oblong, the segments are long. The umbrella is large, convex. The yield from one square of greenery is 1.2 kg, when harvesting umbrella products up to almost three kilograms. The very powerful stem is no less fragrant than the green plates.
Gribovskaya dill early
The most common early cultivar that self-propagates and grows like a weed. After germination, the plant produces 4 leaves and produces a flower basket after 70 days. The height of the stems is about 80 cm. This variety has a slightly green aromatic seasoning, but in July it already has developed seed heads, which are used in cooking for pickling and salting. The weight of one instance of dill is 12 grams. The fruits of fragrant dill can ripen in 108 days.
Mid-season varieties
Dill of medium ripening is characterized by a large leaf mass. Sprawling rosettes of 6-10 leaves give a high yield of the green mass. Seed ripening at the same sowing time occurs a week later. Their seeds reach waxy ripeness, suitable for use in cooking. These varieties include Lesnogorskiy, Kibray, Uzory, Richelieu and others.
Richelieu variety
Richelieu variety represents medium-ripening dill. The delicate beauty of its foliage is difficult to describe. Blue-green needles are very decorative. When the peduncle is thrown away, the greens become the most fragrant. This type of dill, in addition to a large amount of greenery in August, gives ripe seeds if sown in April.Richelieu has large seeds, umbrellas up to 20 cm in diameter. Each basket contains 20-50 simple umbrellas. The height of a plant with an umbrella is more than a meter. Greenery yield up to 1.3 kg per meter.
Dill Kibray
The well-known mid-season variety Kibray has long been loved by gardeners. Rapidly growing greenery allows you to pinch off the branches within a month after germination. The leaves are fragrant, raised, foliage grows rapidly up to 45 days after germination. The rosette of dill of the Kibray bush variety spreads widely, so the distance between plants should be about 20 cm, and between rows 30. Greens grow gradually, and the total collection can be up to six kilograms per square. This variety of dill is resistant to fungal diseases and can be grown in damp soils. The rosette is ready on spice in 72 days.
Dill Umbrella
The mid-season Umbrella variety is a plant up to two meters tall during a flowering basket. Greens begin to be removed after a month and a half from germination. At the same time, the greens retain their aromatic qualities during flowering. The leaves are large, green, extended into a thread. The umbrella reaches almost 20 cm in diameter, collecting up to 50 simple baskets. Very fragrant greens are up to 2.3 kg per square meter. Umbrella was created by the agricultural firm Gavrish, it belongs to the varieties of dill for greens.
Late-ripening varieties of dill
Late-ripening varieties of dill are grown to obtain marketable greens. They do not have time to give an umbrella, basically these plants have a bushy spreading low rosette of leaves. Steming in late varieties begins in the seventh decade. Therefore, the greens are removed as they grow. These varieties include, such as Alligator, Hoarfrost, Patterns.
Dill alligator
Alligator bush dill is a high-yielding crop. The rosette of leaves is raised with a strong filling. Harvesting for greens is done one and a half months after germination. The period of readiness to use umbrellas on spices is 115 days. In the southern regions, the plant has time to ripen for seeds. The plant is tall, up to 1.6 meters with a powerful stem. The alligator has a strong aroma and gives up to 20 grams of herbs and up to 60 grams when harvested with spices from one plant. This variety is loved by gardeners for its aroma and a large amount of green mass.
Dill Patterns
A distinctive feature of bush dill patterns is slow stemming. Therefore, the mid-late dill of the VNIISSOK selection is a very productive variety. Very fragrant large leaves grow from below and along the entire stem of the peduncle. The main harvesting of green mass is carried out up to two months of age. The green mass of one plant is more than 50, taken with a basket - 83 grams. The stem height reaches one and a half meters. The variety is disease resistant and has a high percentage of dry matter and vitamin C.
Hoarfrost, medium late variety
Medium late variety. The leaves are long, gray-green with a touch of wax. Plant height at flowering 150-170 cm, large umbrellas. Very strong aroma in all parts of the dill, especially in the leaves when the basket is pulled out. The mass of greenery from one bush is 40 grams. Total marketable weight per square meter 2.7 kg. This variety is prized for the abundance of spicy greens. Sowing is carried out from April to August. It is recommended to use the crop frozen.