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  • Thornburywitch
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    1 year ago

    Will bolt (go to seed) very quickly. Coriander as a green herb is a very difficult plant to get right. Better left to professionals imo. Sure, grow it for seed in that position.
    You might have better luck with about half a dozen pots, and grow a small quantity in each. You’ll need to feed and water them every day and harvest the INSTANT a potful is ready. Then replant that pot. Lots of maintenance for minimal reward imo.

    • the_procrastinata
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      1 year ago

      Top advice here. I find coriander goes like this:

      1. Sow seeds
      2. Small shoots appear
      3. Growing but not ready to pick
      4. Growing but not ready to pick
      5. Growing but not ready to pick
      6. Gone to seed, too late to pick
      • Thornburywitch
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        1 year ago

        We’ve all been there - coriander is exxy and doesn’t keep so we try to grow it. Then we find out what a fussy little bastard the plant is.

        • just_kitten
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          1 year ago

          I’ll eat bolted coriander rather than pay $3 for the shitty little morsel you get at supermarkets in a plastic case - thankfully there’s other grocers around selling them loose in larger bunches.

        • Catfish@lemm.ee
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          1 year ago

          I chop it up and freeze in ice cubes. Not good for a salad herb but fine for salsa etc.

    • Taleya
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      1 year ago

      personal experience has shown me that jamming it in a pot with a dripper and then ignoring it because IDGAF about coriander and it’s His Lordship’s business results in a three foot high bush that keeps producing.