Notes
Leaf then umbel. Succession every 14 d.
Cultivars / Herbs
Bouquet
Dill · Anethum graveolens
DTM
40 d
70 d occupancy · moderate
Rows
3
4 in in-row
Density
9
plants / bed-ft
Yield
2.5
bunches / bed-ft
Direct $/ft
$5.63
$2.50 / bunch
Propagation
- Method
- Direct seed
- Cell size
- —
- Nursery lead
- direct only
- Germination
- 8 d
- Germ temp
- 50°F – 80°F (opt 70°F)
- Seed spacing
- 1 in
Field geometry · 30 in
- Bed width
- 30 in
- Rows / bed
- 3
- In-row
- 4 in
- Seed spacing
- 1 in
- Plants / linear ft
- 9
- Plants / 50 ft
- 450
Timeline
- DTM from field
- 40 d
- Holding
- 10 d
- Occupancy
- 70 d
- Multicut
- yes · 3 cuts · 10 d
- Fall photoperiod
- ×1.15
- Frost hardiness
- Moderate
Yield & revenue
- Sales unit
- bunch
- Units / bed-ft
- 2.5
- Avg unit wt
- 0.2 lb
- Target lb / bed-ft
- 0.5 lb
- Cull rate
- 10%
- Wholesale / Direct
- $1.50 / $2.50
Irrigation
- Drip lines / bed
- 2
- Emitter spacing
- 8 in
- Emitter GPH
- 0.42
- Weekly water
- 0.9 in
- GPH / 50 ft
- 63
- Gal / week · 50 ft
- 70.1
Soil extraction
- Fertility demand
- Light
- N / 100 bed-ft
- 0.6 lb
- P / 100 bed-ft
- 0.2 lb
- K / 100 bed-ft
- 0.8 lb
- N-P-K / 50 ft
- 0.3 / 0.1 / 0.4 lb
- Family
- Apiaceae
On this farm · 50 ft block
- Season window
- 2026-03-25 → 2026-10-27
- First greenhouse
- —
- First harvest
- 2026-05-04
- Successions that fit
- 6 · every 14 d
- Bed-ft for 50 lb
- 112 ft
- Seed for 50 ft
- 530 seeds · 450 plants
- Wholesale / Direct · 50 ft
- $168.75 / $281.25
Companions
cabbage · onion
Avoid
carrot