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Dill is one of the most popular spicy seasonings in cooking. Without an umbrella of dill, the marinade will lose its flavor, and a salad without dill aroma and needles scattered over the surface will not be so appetizing. Therefore, dill is used all year round in dry and fresh form. The increased demand for fresh greens created the conditions for obtaining many new varieties of dill, differing in terms of ripening, color, foliage structure and appearance of the plant.
Features of
dill varieties If we consider the genus of dill, it belongs to the umbrella type, is a relative of carrots and celery. He has a relative, wild dill, or parsnip, which is eaten root vegetable resembling carrots and parsley.
As a result of selection work in the rural market, varieties of three groups are presented:
- of early ripening period;
- mid-season varieties;
- late ripening, not giving variety of umbrellas.
Two-year-old dill varieties may develop an umbrella with continuous cultivation throughout the year, but in the short summer of Russia they cannot produce seeds in the open field. This explains the high cost of hybrid seeds.
Early varieties
To grow greens in the spring can be from the early dill. These are usually zoned varieties that form 4-6 leaves and an umbrella. These include old and newly created varieties, the period of which stitching is 35-40 days. The fruits of dill fragrant are used in medicine and cooking.
Early ripe variety Anchor
New early ripe variety Anker manages to give umbrellas and enough light greens. Its yield is 2-3 kg / m2, which is not bad for a variety of early ripening. Anchor can be sown several times, collecting enough young greens. The flavor of this variety is of medium intensity.
Early variety Redut
A variety with an exceptionally strong aroma. The plant is low, powerful basal rosette. The foliage is filled with a wax coating. The leaf is oblong, the segments are long. The umbrella is large, convex. The yield from one square of green is 1.2 kg, while harvesting umbrella products to almost three kilograms. A very powerful stem is no less fragrant than green plates.
Dill Gribovskoy early
The most common early variety that breeds self-sown and grows like a weed. After sprouting, the plant gives 4 leaves and produces a flower basket in 70 days. The height of the stems is about 80 cm. This variety has a little green aromatic seasoning, but in July it already has developed seed baskets, which are used in cooking when pickling and salting. The mass of one instance of dill is 12 grams. The fruits of dill fragrant can be ripened in 108 days
Mid-ripening varieties
Dill has an average ripening period and is characterized by a large leaf mass. Spread rosettes of 6-10 leaves give greater yield of green mass. Seed ripening at the same time of sowing occurs a week later. Their seeds reach wax ripeness, suitable for use in cooking. These varieties include Lesnogorsky, Kibray, Patterns, Richelieu and others.
Grade Richelieu
The variety Richelieu represents dill with an average ripening time. The lacy beauty of its foliage is difficult to describe. Blue-green needles are very decorative. When the peduncle is thrown away, the green becomes most fragrant. This type of dill in addition to a large amount of greens in August gives mature seeds, if sown in April. Richelieu has large seeds, umbrellas up to 20 cm in diameter. Each basket consists of 20-50 simple umbrellas. The height of the plant with an umbrella is more than a meter. Green yield up to 1.3 kg per meter.
Dill Kibray
The well-known mid-season variety Kibray has long been a favorite of gardeners. Rapidly growing greenery allows you to pinch off the branches in a month after germination. The leaves are fragrant, raised, the foliage grows rapidly up to 45 days after germination. Rosette of dill spray variety Kibray 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 on moist soils. The spice socket is ready in 72 days.
Dill Ambrella
The mid-season Ambrella variety is a plant up to two meters tall during a flowering basket. Greens begin to clean after six weeks from germination. At the same time greens retain their fragrant qualities during flowering. The leaves are large, green, elongated in the thread. The umbrella in diameter reaches almost 20 cm, collecting up to 50 simple baskets. Very fragrant greens up to 2, 3 kg per square meter. Umbrella was created by the agricultural company Gavrish, it refers to the varieties of dill for greens.
Late-ripening varieties of dill
Late-ripening varieties of dill are grown to produce salable greens. They do not have time to give an umbrella, basically these plants have a bushy sprawling low rosette of leaves. Steaming in late varieties begins in the seventh decade. Therefore, the greens are removed to a minimum. These varieties include, such as Alligator, Frost, Patterns.
Dill Alligator
Shrub dill Alligator is a high-yield type of culture. The rosette of leaves is raised with a strong filling. Cleaning for greens is made one and a half months after germination. The period of readiness of using umbrellas for spices is 115 days. In the southern regions, the plant has time to ripen on 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 greenery and up to 60 when harvesting spices from one plant. This variety is loved by gardeners for their aroma and a large amount of green mass.
Dill Patterns
A distinctive feature of spray dill patterns is slow stealing. Therefore, the mid-late dill breeding VNIISSOK is a very productive variety. Very fragrant large leaves grow from the bottom and around the trunk 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 height of the stem reaches one and a half meters. The variety is resistant to diseases and has a high percentage of dry matter and vitamin C.Sheets 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 dill, especially in the leaves during the opening of the basket. A lot of greens from one bush is 40 grams. The total commodity weight per square meter is 2.7 kg. This variety is valued for the abundance of spicy greens. Crops are from April to August. Recommend to use the crop in frozen form.
