Flowering dill source?

Does anyone know where I can obtain flowering dill in Chicago?

I just bought about 6lb of pickling cucumbers, only to discover that my source for flowering dill is maybe out for the season. I had been getting it from Smits Farm at farmers markets, but they were out today and didn't think they would have any more this season. None of the other farm stands at the markets have any. I may try some of the groceries in Ukrainian Village as I seem to recall them having lots of dill.

Thanks!

Let me know what you find. I don't ever recall seeing flowering dill here in Chicago. I always see it, even in the regular grocers when we are in Wisconsin this time of year.

Not sure where you live but I may be in NWI this weekend and, if so, I go right by the Smits farmstand in Lynwood--happy to pick up some--I've always seen plenty of it there this time of year. PM me if that would work.

As with many such questions, the answer is Fresh Farms in Niles. It's usually right with the pickling cucumbers.

I've also seen it at the A&G (Belmont and Central).

stevez wrote:As with many such questions, the answer is Fresh Farms in Niles. It's usually right with the pickling cucumbers.

Thanks Steve!

If you find it, buy an extra top and plant it in your flower bed. You'll never have to locate a source again. If you need some for next year, let me know and I'll mail you a dried top. Throw it in the ground, or on top of the ground and you can be the fresh dill provider for LTH in your area.

Tim

Freezer Pig wrote:If you find it, buy an extra top and plant it in your flower bed. You'll never have to locate a source again. If you need some for next year, let me know and I'll mail you a dried top. Throw it in the ground, or on top of the ground and you can be the fresh dill provider for LTH in your area.

Tim

that's what I do as well--I also do the same for cilantro (as soon as the branches brown, I throw them in a pot with some dirt over them)--but weather this year was hard on my dill--the cilantro was fine, but the dill sprouted and died off a few times. Frustrating. Too wet I think.

Thanks everyone! I think I will make a trip to Fresh Farms tomorrow if there's still not any at GCM. Have not been there before.

I found it at Jewel on Des Plaines and Kinzie a month or two ago. I didn't even know what it was, but it looked and smelled good, so I of course had to get some.

Marketplace on Oakton is a reliable source, too.

I'm surprised to hear that you had trouble with it in your garden this year. Mine went absolutely wild - and is currently sprouting its third self-sown crop of the year. Some of the flower tops this year reached over six feet high. It was unstoppable.

The cool, damp weather was tough on my containers--I had more than a couple of my smaller potted herbs die off rather quickly. This wasn't the case for the dill--but it didn't reseed like it has in the past and when I replanted a dried head, it started to come up then the drenching followed by 50-60 degrees killed it off. It happens. I just put in another in a different (larger) pot so maybe I can still get a bit if the next month is dry and not too chilly. Easy to buy if not.