A very good friend of mine, when she encounters something she doesn't want to hear, will puff up her teeny little chest and with a great expulsion of air exclaim, "BORING!".
This boring of hers is quite hilarious, and has the added bonus of proving maddeningly addictive. I found myself gift shopping the other day, picking up items and thinking to myself, "oh yes, perhaps", when all of a sudden a clear little voice, having checked out the present, would shout out confidently, "BORING".
Unfortunately for you all, as I was taking pictures of the dill, the little voice was at work again. I know the dill is not exciting. That it's not only not exciting, but also a pretty poor example of dill.
But dill is what I planted from seed and nurtured from the beginning for the letter "D", and so dill is what you are getting.
I apologise in advance.
"BORING!"
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I think the teeny tiny voice is wrong. last night for dinner the cook made, among other things a spiced rice salad. One of the ingredients was dill and you could taste it...but only subtly. It was divine.
oh i tryed growing Dill down here in tassie this is my first year of growing anythink ..well apart from weeds that is ...any how a lot of my seeds didnt grow :-( better luck next time i guess i have planty of parsley and basil though :-) and im gonna have a super big crop of capsicems and chilli's and sqaush that were ment to be zuchini's lol ....
Oh Hazel, I only mean that MY dill is not exciting. It's very sparse. Very. DIll in itself is quite honestly marvellous, just not the three strands of it that I have grown!
Hey Frugal mamma, I have quite a few zucchinis that were supposed to be watermelon!
I love dill! One of my favorite herbs. Unfortunately it bolts very fast for me, so I have to harvest it and freeze it.
I can't wait "dill" spring when I can plant more of it!
Jhello, I like your images. I an get bored too, but I think that gardening is a perfect way to learn to let time do the work. Lula
I don't like dill - it reminds me of fish, which I never eat. However, it is very picturesque.
BTW, what did Luka think of his first day at school?
I'm with Mark on this one -- How was the first day?
Not boring... esp. growing something in the Winter, where (here) it's very cold and snowy! :-)
Hey Mark and Missy, oh my sweet little man, yes, he enjoyed his first day of school. And, "would like to go back again tomorrow mum". He is fascinated by putting up his hand, because, "you aren't allowed to speak at school". So all in all, a good start. To the next 13 years!
Veggie PAK, your pun is quite brilliant I must say, shady gardener, I love snow, in theory of course, in practice I was quite surprised to find out just how COLD the stuff is!
Lulu, I took a peek at your site, now your photos are something to see, just amazing.
Vtlarica ana I have not tried freezing dill, mine at the moment is not so much bolting as languishing, I will have to try growing some more in the cooler months here, our summer sun is amazingly hot and strong, only the most hardy (and those with air con) survive it.
Tasty on fish and for pickling - I wouldn't call it boring.
Lol, no not dill in general, the dill that I grew! It's not very vigorous.
I planted dill one time, years ago. It keeps seeding itself year after year and it's so fun to see all the odd places it pops up!
I'm really enjoying all your garden talk - it's a nice little break from winter.
Aww, thanks Teresa, it's boiling hot here today, it only says 28 degrees on my weather watcher, but I'm sure it's much hotter than that. I cannot even begin to imaging being in the middle of the winter cold, all the photos of snow is so far removed from here.
ah see Ali, Dill is Devious .... it's all thin and sparse and wimpy the first year but then, when you aren't looking BAM .... out shoots its seeds and you've got the stuff everywhere the second year!!
Oh that's good to know Susan, this poor thing looks like it's going nowhere fast, but it's certainly been hanging in there for a good month or so now. I love dill, so I really hope it survives.
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