Many people treat dill solely as a tasty and healthy herb that can be added to almost any dish.
And only experienced gardeners know that this plant brings great benefits to the garden.
It turns out that the most common dill has the ability to improve the health of the soil.
Dill creates ideal conditions for the reproduction of bacteria that convert plant residues into useful nitrogen. For this reason, this crop can be used as green manure.
Moreover, aromatic dill helps the gardener to get a truly impressive harvest.
Through its root system, it “pumps” useful substances located at depth and distributes them throughout the entire area – to do this, it is enough not to take these substances out along with the plant roots, but to leave them in the ground.
But that's not all: dill boasts fungicidal and insecticidal properties.
This is the reason why it is worth planting it next to other crops: cabbage, to protect it from whiteflies, cucumbers, to provide them with protection from downy mildew, or tomatoes - for them, dill is a talisman against late blight.
For reference
Dill is a species of annual herbaceous plant of the Apiaceae family, a popular garden plant grown as a spice, the most common species of the genus Dill (Latin: Anethum).
