Size 5 cm pot

Uses: Culinary, Medicinal

Dill is commonly used in Mediterranean cooking and pairs particularly well with fish, pickled vegetables, light salads, creamy dressings, and egg dishes. Resembles the licorice-like flavor mild caraway or fennel and often mistaken for fennel.

Dill is a medicinal herb that has been used for more than 2000 years. The fruits (seeds) are carminative, stomachic, digestive, and tranquilizing, and have been traditionally used for treating stomach ailments, colic, hiccups, bad breath, flatulence, and hemorrhoids. Its believed to stimulate milk production in breastfeeding women and alleviate colic.

Grows to a height of 45cm. Space 20cm apart.
Dont plant near fennel as will cross pollinate and muddle flavors
Plant in well-drained soil in part shade, outside in pots but cut back to keep compact.
Grows to a height of 45cm. Space 20cm apart.
Water regularly in hot summers to prevent going to seed.

In the same family as parsley and celery, though it is the sole species of its genus. Native to the Mediterranean region and east Asia. The word Dill comes from the old Norse word dylla, meaning to soothe or lull. Found in egyption medical texts c. 3000 B.C. 1st century Rome, dill weed was considered a good luck symbol. Ancient Egyptians used it to ward off witches . For Greeks is signified wealth. Mentioned in the bible where Puritans and Quakers gave their children dill seeds to chew on while at church as an appetite suppressant.

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