If you recall my butterfly album from facebook last year, you'll remember the beautiful butterflies we hatched out from caterpillars we attracted to our garden. About a week and a half ago we planted our dill again this year to attract the swallow-tailed caterpillars. It has now sprouted, and seeing it this morning reminded me to blog about it.
It's a really easy process, and it's so fun and educational to watch the life cycle of a butterfly. If you want to attract the caterpillars to catch and watch morph into butterflies, now is the time to buy dill seed and plant it. The variety I buy is "Mammoth Dill." Since you're most likely not going to be eating it, there's no harm in buying the potentially genetically modified stuff from Walmart or any other store. If you have a spot to permanently dedicate to dill, plant an entire packet or two, and in the late spring or early fall it will "go to seed" and come back up every year.
I'll post more about it as we go along...
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