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Coriander

CharleyDCharleyD Posts: 440
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Just got a coriander plant from Tesco cos I'll need loads this week for meals.  It occurs to me though - after I've used some/all of the leaves, could I plant it outside for the summer if I leave the roots undisturbed and just put it in a bigger pot?

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  • pottering girlpottering girl Posts: 236

    CharleyD, it has never worked when I tried.  It just flags and dies on me.  Might be me though.

  • CeresCeres Posts: 2,697
    I had some success with a basil from Tesco. It lasted for ages on the kitchen windowsill then I took cuttings from it, and cuttings from the cuttings until it eventually ran out of steam after several months. Bargain.
  • CharleyDCharleyD Posts: 440

    Great, thanks.  That's what makes this forum invaluable - so much experience around which is often far better than txt books. Next job ... order some coriander seeds - and basil, forgot about basil.  I have all the other main herbs already image

  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,138

    Try the Calypso variety, as this responds well to 'cut and come again', whereas most varieties tend to run to seed.  http://www.marshalls-seeds.co.uk/coriander-seeds-calypso-pid3167.html


    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • CharleyDCharleyD Posts: 440

    image seeds already ordered from Suttons.  I'm not sure what type they are but I'll remember the Calypso variety for next year.

  • cloud8cloud8 Posts: 103

    I haven't tried but I did it with supermarket parsley and it was very successful.

  • Reluctant_GardenerReluctant_Gardener Posts: 284

    The supermarket living herbs fizzle out on me when I transplant them, like there's a programmed obsolescence but I've only bought they are reduced at their sell by date. Coriander is easy to grow from seed, most varieties run to seed easily.

    The slow growers I find the trickiest. Thyme gets a few sets of true leaves then it's dead.

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