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dawnnys

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About a month ago, I found a country road that went on for miles lined with FRESH DILL (wild). Seriously, it about 5 miles.

Well I went back the other day to pick some, and it all was completely gone! Just little brown stubbles where it used to be. Maybe it was a highway maintenance trimmer truck or something; that would be sad! But nothing else looked mowed around there.

Doesn't it grow all summer like most herbs, or does it have a growing season? Is it that short?! Thanks.

 
Hi Dawn, yes it is that short. It goes to seed very quickly. In the garden, if you want a constant

supply you need to sow it often--maybe once a month.

The good news is that once it goes to seed it is likely to pop up here and there.

I suspect a highway team did mow it down, but it was likely brown before they did it.

 
Caterpillars eat dill, parsley, and fennel. We plant it just for them.

We also have several passion flower plants for the Zebra caterpillars. The butterflies like the milkweed, porter weed (as do hummingbirds), butterfly bush, golden dew drop.

 
Those big, ugly black and yellow ones ate it last year, I don't know which ones mowed it down

this year. The plants are in pots on my patio but I couldn't pay a lot of attention to them this summer since our building was being painted and everything was pushed together. Tuesday I am putting it back together and seeing what I can salvage of my plants.

 
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