Okay, not BRAND new, but pretty new. New enough to kill every cilantro plant that has attempted to grow in my vicinity. Grew up in western NY pulling my share of weeds out of my mom's small house-hugging rose patch, and remember spreading more than my share of peat moss around the flowers she called "Spider's Spit." Also, my little brother's chosen form of torment for many years was eating as many chive plants as he could manage before road trips (taking big, open mouth breaths right in whichever sibbling's face happened to be sitting in the backseat with him). During the poor college days, I started to experiment with adding cheap items (eggs, spinach, green onion...) to ramen packs in order to feel better about my affordable eating situation. These days, I still love cooking, and still love being frugal and independent. And so my adventures in buying potted herb plants from the grocery store began. The first of which, my basil, is still alive today. My goal in gardening is to reduce the amount I have to spend at the grocery store in order to put together truly wonderful, delicious meals. That means I'm very keen to have a full herb garden, some leafy things, perhaps even a few citrus trees one day if I live in the right location and have the space. Fresher tastes better after all. Then as I began gardening more, I started to enjoy it - not just as a means to an end - but because there's something very addicting about watching things grow and flourish under your care. Very excited to begin sharing this with the GardenStew community, and finding myself (hopefully) with a rousing success of a Cook's Garden here in the next few years. Cheers, TumbaoDev
Hi there TumbaoDev and welcome to our forums from Scotland. You must share some of your recipes with us and your food looks delicious.
Hi TumbaoDev and a hearty welcome to GardenStew I remember my ramen days from college also, fun times! You will find lots of herb related info on the forums, if you don't see what you need please ask
Hi and welcome. Cilantro is a very short lived plant. You probably had higher expectations of it than it is able to give. It grows its leaves and then goes to flower very quickly. maybe all within 6 weeks. The secret to cilantro is to reseed it every 2 weeks.
Frank & Eileen - thank you for the welcome! Carolyn: Wow - if I can unlock cilantro, I feel like I could be a real success. The plant did re-seed itself; the sprouts are shooting up as we speak. Do you recommend reseeding in the same pot, or start another?
leave them. If you have more seeds start some in another spot/pot as soon as you can. as the weather cools off it takes longer to go to seed, so if your weather is getting cooler now you will see the leaves stay without it going to flower for a much longer period of time. I have some that goes to seed in the greenhouse and stays dormant until the weather cools off then it starts sprouting again and depending on the weather I can keep it going almost all winter.
Hi Tumbao. Welcome to the stew from another western New Yorker. I'm from Warsaw NY and I'n still pulling weeds.
A belated hello from a Stewbie in Wisconsin. Looking forward to see what you will be growing and cooking up in the future.
