Crazy weather in Central Missouri so far this year. The weather guessers are calling for anywhere from 4” to 10” of snow on Sunday down here in CoMO.
My seed order from Jung’s arrived this week, but I am determined not to rush the planting season this time. The miserable weather we’ve been enjoying lately is augmenting my patience in that regard.
As far as the dill goes, don’t plant it. Pick a spot in the garden where you want to grow it, clean it up but don’t go crazy with that - there’s no need to work the soil much at all, just scratch it up a bit - scatter your seed on the ground in the fall. Around the time you’re setting the garlic is perfect. It will come up the spring when the soil temp is right. Leave a few of the seed heads to ripen on the stalk. It will reseed naturally as long as you leave a few of the seed heads to ripen. Do that and you’ll have dill there every year.
But, considering that last fall has come and gone it’s not too late to sow it in a similar manner this spring. The seed won’t have a chance to get frosted in so you’ll want to do something to keep the heavy rains that are inevitable from washing it away. Scratch up the soil with a heavy rake, toss out the seed, scratch again, then cover it up with a light layer of compost, half an inch at most, and hope you don’t get any toad-strangler rains before it comes up.
Thanks for the tips. I’ll try it. It may still get that freezing weather though. We sometimes get snow in April.LOL.
I just heard that St. Louis got 14 inches so far. Schools around us have already announced closing tomorrow. Won’t know about our’s until tomorrow morning.