Dill Weed is Waist-High by the 4th of July

In one month’s time the dill that re-seeded itself in the garden has grown a foot and a half or more. It’s almost waist-high!

That reminds me of the old saying we have for the fast growth of corn as in, “It’s knee-high by the fourth of July!”

Corn stalks will be shorter or taller than depending on the amount of rain received and of course the crop planting time. Knee-high is around 18 inches for someone 5’8″ tall, so that’s about a foot and a half tall corn stalk.

For an adult waist-high is in the range of 30 to 40 inches, so that’s about three feet tall. Take note of the yardstick in the photo below taken 1 July 2014.

Flowering dillweed plants 2-3 feet tall on July 1st.
Flowering dillweed plants 2-3 feet tall on July 1st.

Dill weed plants in our garden are 2-3 feet tall and they’re starting to flower. They’ll soon be growing their seeds, so it won’t be long that we can use them to make dill pickles.

Tomatillos Can’t Grow It Alone

Each year we try a new plant or two in the garden. Sometimes the new plants do well and become favorites to be grown again and sometimes we need to stick to the old adage, “If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again.” Well, next growing season we will be trying to grow tomatillos again. This summer’s attempt was a flop!

Well, not a complete flop. We learned some things about growing tomatillos. Check out this photo of one tomatillo plant. (Click on images to see a larger view.)

Single tomatillo plant
Single tomatillo plant laid in front of garage door.

Several plants were started by seed, but I don’t think the growing area was warm enough for the tomatillos to really get going. Maybe they are just not so easy to start via seeds indoors. Since it was our first attempt at growing them I can only guess as to what went wrong.

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