Free: 25 Heirloom Cilantro Seeds Vegetable Garden Plant - Taco Lover's Delight FREE Recipe Included! - Gardening Seeds & Bulbs

This Stuff is Free Too:

FREE

what do you mean coriander seeds? Do these seeds come from cilantro? Can you grow cilantro indoors?

Aug 3rd, 2011 at 6:01:08 AM PDT by

It all depends upon which part of the globe that you're from. Some countries call the herb 'coriander' and some call it 'cilantro. For instance, India and England call it coriander and the U.S. and Mexico call it cilantro. Not to be confused with 'culantro' which is also an herb used in the same way but, 'culantro' tastes more like pepper.

Culantro is common in Panama, Honduras, Vietnam, Caribbean Islands etc.

Cilantro is also called 'Chinese Parsley' in Asia.

Aug 5th, 2011 at 12:13:02 AM PDT by

Cilantro i.e. coriander can also be frozen for future use. To freeze cilantro leaves, rinse in cold water or an ice bath, pat the leaves as dry as you can and place into a freezer bag.

You can also make a 'pesto' out of cilantro just like making basil pesto. Just place the cilantro leaves into a blender of food processor, with oil and a few pinches of salt. You can even add pine nuts. Pesto made from cilantro can be frozen for months at a time as well. The pesto is great for soups, sauces, pastas and even spread on a good toasted bread with a bit of thinly sliced ham, cheese, or tomato.

The seeds of the cilantro are great to dry and store for cooking. It's very common to do so if you don't want to freeze it. Before using the dried seeds for cooking, grind them in a mortor or herb/coffee grinder.

Cilantro can bolt quickly if you don't snip the leaves off of the plant every other day or so. .. and so, you'll have plenty of the herb leaves to use, freeze, make into pesto or to share with others.

If you wish to save seeds for future planting.. be sure to allow one or two plants to flower then go to seed. The flower of the cilantro plant is quite lovely and butterflies and bees adore the flowers.

Cilantro is a wonderful companion plant. Cilantro will repel insects in your garden and attract beneficial ones when planted near other vegetables and herbs. Cilantro is known to repell wasps, nats, aphids etc. and can be most beneficial to plant around other herbs, tomatoes, peppers etc. Cilantro has a reputation for driving away aphids and being resistant to aphids itself. It is also thought to repel spider mites and potato beetles and even mosquitos. Mexico, Central and South Americans make a solvent from the liquid/juice of the cilantro plant to repel mosquitos and nats.

Aug 5th, 2011 at 12:14:00 AM PDT by

Companion gardening is a very usefull subject to learn about. You can increase your harvest by using simple companion planting guidelines. For instance, planting basil or cilantro, bell peppers and tomatoes near one another is most prductive because each plant will benefit one another be repelling or attracking the right kind of bugs. Many container gardeners use companion planting as strict rule so that their container gardens last longer.

*You can absolutely grow cilantro indoors. Cilantro has a pungent aroma as like basil; however, If you have a cat, you may want to watch it. They tend to like to spray it, rub against it or even eat it. Cilantro won't harm animals in any way but, it's just annoying to have a cat play with your herbs. Cats also like catnip, bugleweed, ginko, couchgrass, hawthorne, etc.

Herbs to avoid planting indoors if you have a cat are
boswellia, cayenne, lavender, celery seed, yellow dock, borage, colt's foot, comfrey, chaparral, golden seal, kava kava and oregon grape,
cayenne, kava kava, valerian, sarsaparilla, licorice, aloe, senna, turkey rhubarb, St. John's wort, black walnut hulls, boswellia, burdock root and chickweed, etc. Particular herbs can cause digestive problems, thinning blood, tumors, etc.It's always good to know about houseplants, herbs and plants in general when growing indoors and you have animals or children.

Aug 5th, 2011 at 12:14:34 AM PDT by

Cilantro is wonderful even if you want to pep up a store bought salsa or even a canned soup as like potato or chicken noodle. Cilantro is great for colds and flues or just to releave nasal congestion. As like other herbs.. they can be most beneficial to the human body and tickle the brain via your taste buds. :O)

Aug 5th, 2011 at 12:15:34 AM PDT by

As Martha Stewart would say, "It's A Good Thing!"

Aug 5th, 2011 at 12:16:22 AM PDT by

FREE: 25 Heirloom Cilantro Seeds Vegetable Garden Plant - Taco Lover's Delight FREE Recipe Included!