Well, who doesn’t know dill – a tasty and, most importantly, healthy (contains many vitamins) herbal spice.
Moreover, this representative of the Umbelliferae family protects other crops planted by gardeners, protecting them from various diseases and pests.
In addition, dill enriches the soil, thus providing the prerequisites for a future good harvest of other plants.
Nothing bad
But it happens that dill can spread throughout the entire garden, which scares some people. But in vain: there is nothing bad about this.
On the contrary: the more dill, the more useful it is for the plot, its soil and, accordingly, for the gardener himself.
Why? This question was answered in detail by the expert of the online publication BelNovosti, agronomist and landscape designer Anastasia Kovrizhnykh.
The beneficial properties of the spice itself have already been mentioned. At least for this reason, you shouldn't worry when there is too much dill.
Dill helps improve the health of the soil, “expels” many pests and “wardes off” various diseases inherent in garden plants.
Dill also enriches the soil: by cutting off the top part and leaving the roots, we thereby give them the opportunity to rot in the soil, which makes the latter looser and richer in microelements.
Plant protection
Dill, along with marigolds and some types of mustard, can repel the golden potato nematode.
Therefore, after planting potatoes, you can immediately scatter dill seeds over the garden bed.
If you plant dill with radishes or cabbage, you will protect the latter from clubroot.
If you make dill a neighbor of cucumbers, it means that they will be protected from downy mildew, and it will protect tomatoes from late blight and cladosporiosis.
If you plant it with cabbage, it will keep away the cabbage white butterfly and other caterpillars.
In addition, the spice gets along well with tomatoes, onions, garlic, beets, strawberries, currants, legumes and many other plants.
Not very welcome neighbors
Dill spreading throughout the garden also drives out psyllids, although for this to happen it needs to be grown for several years.
However, it is worth remembering that there are still plants that are not desirable to be neighbors with spices.
It is not recommended to plant dill with carrots, celery and other representatives of the Umbelliferae family.
Earlier we talked about what can be planted next to onions, strawberries and cucumbers.
