Growing coriander from seed is one of the easiest spices to grow! It is delicious on everything from chicken to beef and provides several health benefits. From seed to seed, the cilantro plant will keep giving back year after year!
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Cilantro is a vegetable that I did not eat a lot of as a child. The green leafy addition is not so common in standard American cuisine! Over time I began to delight when seeing some fresh green cilantro pop on top of my tacos, or in my soup.
Come to find out later that the seeds make an excellent seasoning. In my journey to grow more of my own seasonings, coriander was one of the first because of the ease of growing, usefulness of the plant through its lifecycle, and it does not require a whole lot of space to produce enough for a family.
You can use cilantro greens all through its life and when it bolts and seeds, you can harvest the seeds for a delicious treat as well.
EQUIPMENT NEEDED FOR GROWING CORIANDER FROM SEED
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HOW TO GROW CILANTRO
- First start with a good tilled garden bed.
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- As long as the weather stays mild, the cilantro greens will be nice and tender.
- Enjoy cilantro greens fresh on top of many different foods! Eggs, Curry dishes, Tacos, Salsa, and much much more!
- Once it gets hot, the cilantro will “bolt”. Bolting is the word used to describe when a plant sends up its flowering stalk to begin its reproductive processes.
- After the cilantro bolts it will produce these beautiful white flowers.
- Cilantro flowers are hosts to many different pollinators! From bees and butterflies, to moths and wasps. I have seen a huge variety of insects enjoying the delicious pollen.
- Each of these flowers will turn into an individual seed.
- Sometimes if the wind blows too hard or the rain hits too hard, your cilantro plants will fall over.
- I make sure to get them off the ground and support them with a little twine. If the plants fall on the ground they will begin to decompose before you have a chance to harvest the seeds.
- Another view of the cilantro plants being propped up.
- As you can see a couple of posts and some string is a cheap and easy method of keeping your cilantro plants off of the ground.
- Start with a clean bucket.
- Before placing anything edible in the bucket, ensure it is food grade plastic.
- Coriander seeds follow after the flowers. These green seeds are extremely aromatic.
- You may harvest the seeds at this point. Many people prefer to harvest them green because they have a stronger aroma.
- To harvest coriander seeds, place the head of the coriander plant into the bucket and shake the seeds off into the bucket.
- You may also snip the entire plant off at the base and hang it upside down until dry and shake the seeds into a bag.
- Your coriander seed will be full of plant material of different kinds. You may get this out in several different ways.
- The easiest way to separate the seeds from the plant material is to pour the seeds into a bucket in front of a fan or on a windy day. Allow the wind to take away the plant material while leaving behind the seeds.
- While I wait until the rest of my coriander is ready to harvest, I placed the bucket under a covered area to protect it from the rain.
OTHER RECIPES TO TRY
GROWING CORIANDER FROM SEED
Coriander is one of the most popular spices in the world! It is delicious on everything from chicken to beef and provides several health benefits. From seed to seed, the cilantro plant will keep giving back year after year!
Prep Time
5 minutes
Additional Time
1 month
Total Time
1 month 5 minutes
Estimated Cost
$2-$5
Materials
- Cilantro seeds
Tools
- Shovel or pickaxe
- Hoe or double action hoe
- Bucket
Instructions
- Prepare the garden bed and add soil amendments
- Seed the garden using instructions on the seed packet
- Water daily until the seeds sprout and then water to prevent seedlings from drying out for the remainder of their life.
Notes
Hot weather will encourage cilantro to bolt which is the flowering and seed head coming up from the center of the plant.
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I started cooking at a very young age. In middle school, my friends and their parents would ask me to cook food for them because I could make something out of nothing. I love to cook up new concoctions and see what everyone likes. When I became of working age, I started as a buss boy at a barbecue restaurant, and then moved on to work all positions of the restaurant industry. From head chef of a Jamaican restaurant in Tulsa, OK, to sous chef at a highly accredited bistro on the Oregon coast, all before I turned 21.
I Inherited land in southeast Oklahoma and now spend my days working a Fedex delivery route and working with my wife and 3 young boys on our rural homestead. We raise many different kinds of animals and some vegetable gardens. I hunt all manor of large and small game, and butcher all of my own meat. We harvest wild edibles of all kinds and enjoy to cook with them and eat them.
I am grateful that you stopped by to see how we are doing and hope to see you again very soon. We would love to be friends and hope you enjoy all of the recipes and information that I can manage to put out.
Thank you, and much love!
-Eligh
I may receive a small commission for items purchased through affiliate links in this post at no additional cost to you.
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