Long Island Mammoth Dill

Product Description

Direct sow in garden when all danger of frost has passed, ¼” deep. Sow Long Island Mammoth dill seeds at the back of the herb or vegetable bed, as plants can reach 6 feet tall. In fact, it gets so tall, it makes a nice specimen plant, central in the garden. Harvest the leaves as needed. The leaves and seeds dry well.
Heirloom/Organic seeds grown and harvested on Vancouver Island.
Approximately 1 teaspoon of seeds, well over 70 seeds per package.

The structure of dill’s 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. Organic gardeners like to grow dill precisely to attract these beneficial insects, for they will control pest insects like aphids, thrips, whitefly, and the cabbage moth.