Coriander growing time.

Why rewrite what has already been written about our dear Corie, aka coriander, when Penny Woodward from Organic Gardener Magazine has already done a such a bang up job.

Best grown from seed sown directly where they are to grow. Once you start moving them around and transplanting them it only increases the speed before they run to seed or shortens your harvest time..

Also regular picking or harvesting, whether youre using it or now will add to the life span of your coriander. This also applies to most other herbs as well.

So, get sowing, now's the time!

Cheers

Stewart.

Seed planting

I didn't have a whole lot planned for today due to the forecast for rain in our area.

We ended up with 23mm yesterday (Saturday) and woke up to bright sunshine this morning.

As it turned out it became a good day for planting seeds.

Seed planting

Water Cress - Nasturtium officinale. Started out by sprinkling some Water Cress seeds over about a one meter square area and watering them in.

I've never grown Water Cress before so this'll be a new learning curve for me. Seed purchased from The Seed Collection.

Tomato - Australian Red. A bush tomato with medium sized fruit. This plant produces large flat red fruit and it is noted for its ability to form ripe tomatoes in cool summer areas.  Seed purchased from Rangeview Seeds.

Eggplant -Taskeniki, Rosa Bianca and Red Square. What was I thinking? Three varieties of eggplant. 

That's right, I was trying to make the order up to ten dollars so I could get free postage  and  they were appealing to me too. Seed purchased from The Seed Collection.

Alyssum - Royal Carpet. Something to feed the bees with. Seed purchased from The Seed Collection. 

Tomato - Cherry Roma. Picked these up from Bunnings. 

I was looking for a cherry tomato when I saw these. This will be the first time growing these so I'm curious to see how they turn out.


 Coriander. These seeds are from a coriander plant I let go to seed and then collected the seeds for my self to see if I can become more self sufficient.

Other seeds I've collected are Basil, Pumpkin and Beans (dwarf), not a huge list by all means but I have radish and rocket going to seed now that I'll collect. As I get better I'll increase my varieties.

A part from weeding and mulching some rose and bamboo prunings that just about covers my day in the veggie garden. One more thing, the bamboo prunings were from a lattice structure I built for some climbing beans, Purple King, also purchased from Bunnings.

Cheers

Stewart.

Coriander

In their opening paragraph Best Recipes state If there was ever a herb to divide a nation it would be coriander.

And seeing as we are a divided household when it comes to coriander on its uses and taste I thought I'd share a link here to the full story at Best Recipes on coriander. 

I'm currently sharing mine with a possum but I do enjoy adding it to recipes and it does have a strong but enjoyable flavour to me.

Coriander at Best Recipes and here is some more info at Dishbase



What do you think? How do you get along with coriander?

Cheers

Stewart