If desired, anyone can easily grow dill in winter on his windowsill and always have this vitamin, fragrant greens on their table. To do this, it is enough to organize a small garden on the windowsill. Dill is unpretentious and undemanding, so you can successfully grow it.
Before sowing the dill seeds, you should prepare boxes or pots, prepare the soil that will be rich in humus and without a large number of alkalis and acids. The soil in pots must be spilled well and then sow dill. Per square meter of seeds should be 40 grams.
Seeds must be filled with fertile land of 1 centimeter thick and slightly compact. Pots or boxes, with sown of dill seeds, close the film (for more active germination) and put on the windowsill. Provide good illumination (set seedlings to the southern window sills) and ambient temperature within 16-17 degrees above zero. These windows should be with the windows, because the dill is needed by regular ventilation. For additional lighting, the lamps of white or daylight should be installed (the most suitable will be phytolamps). Sufficient power will be light in 40-80 watts. Additional lighting should be installed at a height of about sixty centimeters. It is recommended to turn on the lamps in the morning for six hours.
The best varieties for growing dill at home are varieties: Armenian-269, Gribovsky and Uzbek-243.
Caring for a plant is quite simple.
Since dill is moisture -loving, it should be quite abundantly and often watered, including the time of germination of dill seeds.
As soon as the sprouts appear (after 7-10 days), the film should be removed from the pots. After about 25 days (when the dill is already growing), it needs to be led. This will allow plants to develop normally and form umbrellas.
The output young dill is completely removed, it is eaten, and not thrown away.
The first result of the crop grown, with proper care, can be seen, after about a month and a half or even early.
Collecting bushes of fresh dill should be from the upper part of the plants. This, in turn, will give an additional incentive for the growth of side stems and give an additional crop. Young dill goes completely in food (both leaves and stems).
So that dill is constantly on your table, throughout the long and cold winter, it needs to be sowed every ten to twelve days again, in prepared pots with the ground.