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Dill – Pollinator Heaven

in Gardening, pollinators on 07/10/14

Pollinator Heaven.
Pollinators CHERISH dill, when in bloom.
The flowers are too small for European honey bees, but countless wild bees which tend to be quite small absolutely LOVE dill. You’ll see clouds of them around dill.
Beneficial wasps, and ladybugs, both of which prey on garden pests,also treasure dill. Since dill readily self-seeds, I just let it be wherever it crops up in the garden.

I read that dill, when young, is beneficial for tomatoes, but that when it grows up, it supposedly inhibits tomatoes. The dill have  cropped up in the midst of my tomato bed, and I am letting it be because the tomatoes have some aphids on them, and the dill seems to be the absolute perfect nursery for raising ladybugs, they are all over my dill this year. It would seem insane to remove the dill, and take away this perfect ladybug breeding ground!

 

Ladybug and Ladybug Larvae on Dill

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Comments

  1. Maj says

    July 10, 2014 at 11:26 am

    DU är ju helt fantastisk kära syster! Så mycket du kan och gör och delar med dig av. Jag är helt förundrad och nu har jag lärt mig om dill också.
    Här är 23 grader varmt fast det är kväll. Eva och jag tog en kvällspromenad på Flåten som ligger i ett förklarat ljus. Kram till dig, George, bina och dillen!

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