Dill variety Gribovsky is very popular among gardeners. This is due to its unpretentiousness in care and high rates of yield. In order for the culture to give a good harvest with juicy fragrant greens, you should familiarize yourself with the rules for its cultivation.
Mushroom variety of dill
Mushroom variety is early
Mushroom variety of dill is unpretentious in care
Description of the variety, advantages and disadvantages
Dill Gribovsky refers to annual garden crops. In comparison with other varieties of dill, this one is ready to eat before anyone else: greens can be harvested as early as a month after the appearance of the first sprouts. A distinctive feature of the early varieties, which include Gribovsky, is dark, but less dense foliage.
The shoots reach a height of 20-30 cm. The inflorescences are large, have a rounded shape with convex radial processes. The culture tolerates low temperatures and stressful situations.
Like any other dill variety, Gribovsky has its own strengths and weaknesses. Among the advantages, the following should be noted:
- Early ripening. With proper cultivation and care, dill is ready for use in mid or late April.
- Frost resistance. It is thanks to her that there is an opportunity to carry out early planting and get a crop earlier.
- Excellent taste and aromatic characteristics that are preserved even after processing dill for storage for the winter.
- Universal use. Greens can be frozen, dried, used for conservation, and also eat fresh.
- Unpretentiousness in leaving. Cultivation requires standard procedures.
- The content of a large number of minerals, vitamins and essential oils that have a positive effect on the human body as a whole. All the useful properties of dill remain with it even after freezing or drying.
The disadvantages of culture include the following:
- low productivity in comparison with varieties of late ripeness;
- instability in the fight against some parasitic insects and diseases, in connection with which, it is recommended to periodically treat the culture with special means;
- rather early release of umbrellas, which is not very convenient, since this time does not coincide with the period of the beginning of conservation;
- spontaneous dispersal of seeds, which makes it difficult to control the number and distribution of dill in the garden.
Obviously, the dill varieties of the Gribovsky variety are significantly more positive than the negative. That is why he is preferred by many gardeners.
Landing
Dill Gribovsky in most cases is grown in open ground. Some gardeners practice planting in greenhouse conditions, but such a measure is only required when sowing in cold climates.
For year-round harvesting, dill is also grown on window sills in the house, but this method is not very common. In whatever conditions the crop is planted, several points should be taken into account.
Preparation of soil and planting material
For dill, sunny, well-lit plots of land are suitable. It is important that no other umbrella crops (including celery and carrots) are planted on this territory before Gribovsky. Not even a neighborhood with them in the garden is recommended.
Depleted soils are prepared starting in the autumn. They are dug, make the necessary amount of compost and superphosphate. In the spring, they again perform loosening work, at the same stage immediately form beds. It is recommended not to make plantings too thick, observing a distance of 20-25 cm between rows.
Seeds for planting dill after their purchase do not need to be pre-cooked. Immediately you can open the pack and start sowing.
Landing technology
Landing is carried out in several simple steps:
- Furrows are formed and abundantly watered with water. It is also recommended to dust them with wood ash.
- Seeds go deep into the ground about 1 cm, a landing distance of 6-10 cm is observed. Gribovsky has a fairly large planting material, so there should be no problems.
- Crops are mulched. Watering them is not worth it.
In order for dill to further actively grow and develop, it is necessary to take into account several of its features:
- tolerable temperature drop for the Gribovsky variety - up to -4 degrees;
- seeds begin to germinate at a temperature of +3 degrees;
- greens are well formed in the range from +15 to +20 degrees.
Outdoor crop care
Growing dill variety Gribovsky does not require the implementation of any complex procedures. You need to know the basic rules of care that will help to get an excellent harvest.
Watering
Excess moisture adversely affects the percentage of essential oil in dill, which in turn can lead to a decrease in yield. Therefore, the culture should be watered moderately, without moisturizing too much.
In the dry period it is enough to irrigate the earth with water once a day. In cooler and cloudy weather, increase the intervals between watering to 2-3 days.
Top dressing
If the bed for dill was prepared previously and the soil on it is quite saturated, then feeding is not required - nutrients for this precocious crop will be enough. But if the recommendations for the preparation of the soil were not followed, then the plant itself will request additional nutrition, showing the need for its unhealthy appearance.
In this case, you can pour dill with a solution of urea or mullein. Nitrogen-containing products are also recommended.
Loosening and weeding
Gribovsky variety gives good seedlings on soils with good aeration, so after irrigation or rain aisles should be loosened. The first loosening is carried out after the emergence of seedlings to a depth of 4-7 cm, the subsequent ones to a depth of 8-12 cm.
So that all the nutrients fall into the greens, and not spent on the growth of weeds, the garden should be weeded as necessary. This contributes to the development of dill also because weeds compact the soil and retain moisture in the soil, which negatively affects the culture.
Diseases and Pests
Gribovsky variety itself is considered resistant to many diseases. It is most susceptible to diseases of fungal origin. The most common include the following:
- powdery mildew;
- phomosis;
- cercosporosis.
To save the garden culture from such diseases, compliance with the rules of care and cultivation will help:
- Do not plant dill next to carrots and celery, because he can adopt many diseases precisely from these plants. The best predecessors and neighbors of the culture are tomatoes, legumes and cucumbers.
- To prevent diseases from passing on to plants from generation to generation, dill should not be planted in the same place for several years in a row.
Among the pests, the following are most actively affected by greenery:
- aphid;
- umbrella moth;
- carrot leaf;
It is important to remember that dill absorbs nitrates very well, so you can not use toxic agents in the fight against harmful insects. It is best to use proven folk methods - treatment with infusion of orange peels, tobacco dust or a decoction of tobacco.
Harvesting and storage
The green mass, suitable for consumption, is formed in the dill of the Gribovsky variety quite quickly, so the assembly time is limited in time. It is recommended to cut dill after the appearance of 6-7 branches. During this period, green leaves gather for fresh consumption, freezing or drying.
Further, the culture begins to bloom actively, which makes it difficult to collect greens. Now you can collect seeds for planting next year or umbrellas for the preparation of marinade.
For storage, all fresh greens are collected, selecting leaves with defects, and thoroughly washed under warm water, and then dried. Now dill is ready for freezing or further drying (it is in these two species that the crop is stored). Some gardeners also practice pickling greens by alternating layers of twigs with salt.
Compliance with the simple rules for planting and caring for the dill of the Gribovsky variety will allow the gardener to soon get an excellent crop. The taste and aroma of timely and correctly collected and prepared greens will delight all year round.