How to Space Dill Plants

Add dill to your herb garden and enjoy it for its flavorful leaves and seeds. The feathery green foliage and small yellow flower umbels are attractive and edible. The plants take up minimal space in the herb garden, but they require proper spacing to produce at their peak. Crowded plants compete for nutrients, water and sunlight, which leads to weak growth and poor production of the oils that give dill its flavor. Spacing the plants too far apart invites weeds to grow between the plants and wastes valuable garden space.

Things You'll Need

• Dill seeds
• Spray bottle

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Instructions

1. • 1

     Sow dill seed on the soil surface in a well-drained, full-sun bed. Sow approximately one seed per 2 inches of row and space the rows 12 inches apart. Cover the seeds with a 1/4-inch layer of soil.

   • 2

     Mist the bed with a fine spray of water every one to two days. Keep the soil moist, but avoid over-watering and soggy soil.

   • 3

     Thin the seedlings once they sprout, usually within one to three weeks of sowing. Pull up the additional plants that sprout in each row so the remaining dill plants are spaced about 9 inches apart in the row.