Dill - Fresh Cut — photo: Forest and Kim Starr, CC BY 3.0 US, via Wikimedia Commons
Dill - Fresh Cut — photo: Forest and Kim Starr, CC BY 3.0 US, via Wikimedia Commons
Culinary Herbs

Dill - Fresh Cut

Edible
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Fresh dill is sweet and grassy with a faint anise lift, nothing like the flat hay of the dried jar.
Size: 2 oz Clamshell
Quantity
Dill - Fresh Cut — photo: Forest and Kim Starr, CC BY 3.0 US, via Wikimedia Commons
Culinary Herbs

Dill - Fresh Cut

$6.00
Dill - Fresh Cut — photo: Forest and Kim Starr, CC BY 3.0 US, via Wikimedia Commons
Culinary Herbs

Dill - Fresh Cut

$6.00
Size: 2 oz Clamshell
Description

Keep it dry and cold in a loose bag; five to seven days. Snip the feathery fronds with scissors rather than chopping, and add off the heat - dill turns bitter if you cook it hard. Stems are good in brine.

Specifications
  • Grown in: Lineville, Alabama (no pesticides)
  • Freshness: Harvested at peak and sold fresh
  • Availability: Seasonal - local Alabama delivery & pickup
  • Storage: Dry and cold in a loosely closed bag, refrigerated - 5 to 7 days
Care Instructions
  • Light: Grown in full sun, which keeps the fronds dense rather than stretched
  • Water: Grown on even moisture with a little dry between waterings; dill tolerates thirst better than sog
  • Soil: Direct-sown into light, well-drained soil that is deliberately not rich - dill sends down a taproot and will not transplant, and overfed plants go soft and flop.
  • Feeding: Almost none. Dill grown lean holds its anise note; dill grown fat grows fast and tastes of very little.
Growing Zone

No hardiness zone on this one — it's harvested and sold to eat, not to plant. If you're after the plant itself rather than the crop, check our starters and herb plants.

Questions & Answers

What is the difference between dill fronds and dill seed?
The fronds are the feathery leaves, sweet and grassy with a light anise lift. The seed forms after the plant flowers and is far more pungent and warm. Pickling recipes often want the seed or the whole flower head; fresh cooking wants the fronds.

How should I cut it?
Snip the fronds with scissors instead of chopping them on a board. Chopping crushes the fronds and leaves most of the aroma on the knife.

Can I cook with it?
Add it off the heat. Dill turns bitter under hard heat. The stems, however, are worth dropping whole into a brine or a poaching liquid.

Can I freeze it?
Yes, better than drying it. Snip the fronds, freeze them flat in a bag, and use them straight from frozen. Dried dill loses nearly everything.

Shipping & Returns

Alabama only. This one is picked fresh and never leaves the state.

Where it goes

Local delivery and farm pickup within Alabama. We don't ship produce, microgreens, cut herbs or edible flowers out of state — they're picked at peak and wouldn't survive the trip.

What it costs

$9.95 local delivery, free over $75.

Pickup

Free at the farm in Lineville, or find us at the Clay County and Acworth farmers markets.

When

Cut to order. We'll reach out to set a delivery or pickup time, usually within a day or two of your order.

Refrigerate on arrival. Fresh items are best within a few days.

Why we only ship Mondays and Tuesdays

A plant in a dark box is on a clock. Shipping early in the week means it reaches you before the weekend instead of sitting in a warehouse from Friday to Monday. It costs us a day or two of lead time and saves a lot of plants.

Practically: an order placed Wednesday, Thursday, Friday or over the weekend goes out the following Monday. We'd rather tell you that now than let you find it in a tracking number.

How long it takes once it leaves

Typical ground transit from Lineville, Alabama after the ship day. Estimates, not guarantees — weather and carrier backlogs happen.

  • 1–2 days Alabama, Georgia, Tennessee, Mississippi, Florida, South Carolina, North Carolina, Louisiana, Arkansas, Kentucky
  • 2–3 days The rest of the Southeast and Midwest, Texas, the Mid-Atlantic and the Northeast
  • 3–5 days The Plains, the Mountain West and the West Coast

Tracking is emailed the moment your box is scanned.

If something arrives unhappy

A little leaf drop or travel stress is normal and usually sorts itself out within a week or two of settling in. If a plant arrives genuinely damaged, email support@wadegreens.com within 48 hours of delivery with a photo of the plant and the box, and we'll make it right.

Plant Traits

The facts that decide whether it takes root, in the order that matters.

Sunlight

Full Sun (6+ hrs)

Six or more hours of direct sun. With less it stretches toward the light and flowering thins out.

Water

Moderate

Water when the top inch of soil is dry. Evenly damp, never standing wet.

Mature Size

Under 1 ft

Where it settles once established. Plan the spacing for this, not for the size it arrives at.

Foliage

Herbaceous

Soft-stemmed. It dies back to the ground and returns from the roots — the top going brown is the plan, not a failure.

Works As

Edible Garden · Cut Flowers

Traits

  • EdibleSome part of it is grown to be eaten. We grow without pesticides, so it needs nothing more than a rinse.
  • FragrantVolatile oils released by warmth. Scent peaks in afternoon heat or at dusk depending on which pollinator the flower is built for.
  • Pet SafeNo compound known to be toxic to cats or dogs. Any plant eaten in volume can upset a stomach — this means no known toxin, not a licence to graze.

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