There is nothing that beats the smell of fresh herbs harvested from your garden
Cilantro, also known as Coriander,is a herb used world wide
to add aroma & flavor to your dishes
Cilantro can be grown in baking trays
They can be grown in small containers
They can be grown along your kitchen window
They can also be grown in the ground
In warmer places like California
Cilantro can be grown almost year round
And even in winters provided you germinate the seeds indoors.
Hot temperatures will send the cilantros to bolt or create flowers
So grow short but spaced out crops of Cilantro in hot conditions
This means that you sow seeds every 4 weeks to get a constant harvest throughout the season.
Now you could be using any kind of potting soil for your Cilantro plants
The one that we are using is called Kellogg's Patio Plus which should be available in your local garden store.
We will be growing our cilantro in a small but wide container
Cilantro loves semi-shade You can also grow it in full sun but it will
bolt or producer flowers quickly, which we do not need as we need to continually harvest
the fresh leaves which we use as a spice
So the seeds we will be using is an organic
slow bolt version of Cilantro which means it will keep producing leaves for a longer
time even in hotter conditions
So what you do is take a few seeds and place
it in the palm of your hands
And gently split them in halves
You don't have to split all of them
Cilantro seeds need to be split or scarred for maximum germination rates
This is a step which a lot of us miss
Leave some whole and some split so you get
a mix of both types of seeds for germination
Use your fingers to split each seed (at least
50% of them) before sowing
Make some space to sow the seeds
And then sow the seeds evenly
All over the container's surface
You don't have to be too particular about where the seeds go
Just make sure you're covering the whole area
And remember that you have to split some of those seeds
Before sowing
That's it...almost done
There we go... Now just cover it with some soil
And your seeds are all set to germinate now
Cilantro loves a constant source of irrigation
Like a drip irrigation system
It's going to produce a lot of lush leaves
As long as you keep your container well-watered
And its very important to keeop the container moist
Till the seeds have completely germinated
In a few days, usually about 10 days
You will start seeing Cilantro shoots emerging
Cilantro is not damaged by most insects like snails or slugs
In fact even other common insects like aphids, loopers and others, leave Cilantro alone
In about 2 weeks or so you can being harvesting leaves from your cilantro plant
Just use scissors to chop off the top leaves
And that's an easy harvest!
Cilantro needs almost no fertilizer
You could use a high Nitrogen fertilizer to get bigger leaves
But what I usually do is
use a good soil base with lots of organic matter
And I think that's more than sufficient to grow Cilantro
You can smell the fresh Cilantro as you are harvesting it
And don't worry too much
Just keep harvesting
All the visible leaves
There we go, that w\looks like a good harvest!
And remember that no matter how much you harvest
The cilantro plant is very versatile and will keep sending out new leaves for you to harvest!
You can harvest many times from a single
growth cycle of the cilantro plant.
So as you can see a few days later,
The cilantro leaves are back
and we have competed yet another harvest
We harvested as many leaves as we had done last time
if not more
And the cycle repeats as the cilantro plant is
going to send out more shoots which you can keep harvesting later
So I hope you enjoyed this video.
Growing fresh herbs in your garden has always been a good
thing to do in your garden
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