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Posted: May/24/2009 12:37 PM PST
This is absolutely my favorite herb, but I fail at growing it successfully every year. I live in the city so MUST grow in pots. I get so excited to see the leaves, but once they are plucked, the plant is not usable anymore? It grows the shoots of coriander so quickly that I am not sure how to propogate this plant throughout the summer. Do you cut off the coriander sprouts and replant them in the same pot to generate another plant? Help! I would love cilantro all summer but am so frustrated and kill it every year with only 1 or 2 gatherings. Also, how do you "stall" the flowering? Help would be appreciated from the experts here. Cheers, Molly |
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Posted: May/25/2009 3:26 AM PST
Cilantro is a cool weather crop. It doesn't like summer. Grow it in the spring and fall. You could try a couple of things. Let one plant flower and go to seed. Gather the seeds and plant them, or you can just buy a pack of seeds. As the plants grow, keep lopping off the top and use it. Keep planting the seeds successively. Mine are happier in the shade when it starts getting hot. They are usually done by summer and what seeds have fallen spout in the fall. This is a picture before they flowered. Attachments:  |
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