Great Herbs! How to Start Cilantro Indoors: Keep It Sowing! - MFG 2014
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Cilantro is an outstanding garden herb. It loves cool weather and it grows tasty leaves, tasty seeds (coriander) and great flowers for attracting bees and predatory wasps. You can start it indoors to get some quick leaves. When you plant your transplants also drops some seeds into your vegetable garden beds. I recommend seeding cilantro every 3 weeks for a continued harvest. Welcome to My 1st Vegetable Garden. This channel is 100% dedicated to new vegetable gardeners that want to learn and have lots of questions. I will teach you how to seed start, plant, tend and harvest vegetables. Please subscribe! The videos are very detailed as if you have never gardened before. Check out my associated Blog: My First Vegetable Garden! http://myfirstvegetablegardengp.blogspot.com/ Please help spread the world of my channel to all the new gardeners you know that are looking for a friendly place to learn. Have questions? Leave them in any comment box and I will get back to you in 24 hours.
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I have a couple round pots that are about 5" deep. Is that deep enough for Cilantro and other herbs like Basil?
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my cilantro is completely wilted. i have it in partial shade it gets a little morning sun. what should i do?
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Gary, when you're overwintering your cilantro are you using a greenhouse of some sort, or just putting the plant in the window during the cooler months?
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What should the water temp be when moistening my soil?
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aren't you supoosed to split the seeds before planting?
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I see the Epsom salt a lot in your videos, what is it for?
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Also thanks for the Icecream sticks idea as Iv been collecting them all year but didnt know what for till now Thanx
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good video I am trying my first crop of cilantro this year ( my wife Loves it) Im putting mine in grow barrels on the north side of the barrel in the shade and if what you say is right I will bring them into my new greenhouse in the late fall to see how they winter over like that
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is it possible to grow cilantro indoors.. but without any high tech growing house thing? I use allot of this stuff sometimes when I cook, So I went out and purchased some seeds to grow my self..
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I LOVE UR VIDS SO MUCH!!!!!
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Do you have some Carolina Reaper seed you could spare my email is firevfd@gmail. com
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hi Gary, my local gardner here told me to break the coriander seeds into halves before planting.. have you experimented that option?
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Thanks, +Gary Pilarchik. I am a Cilantro fanatic!
Question: If the root situation is a potential issue, then might it be better to start Cilantro in SOLO cups, like you would with peppers? That way they start out with a deep rooting area and you can be more sure you'll get them out into the garden before root binding becomes a problem. No?
Also, I have a tip for you for planting small seeds.
You can go to your local drug store and get a cheap pair of flat or angled tweezers (another option is buy some new, good quality ones to replace your cheap old ones!)
Use the tweezers to gently grasp each seed, place the seed where you want it, then press the seed down into the seed-starting mix and let it go when it's where you want it.
This worked perfectly for me last year when I tried it for starting my tomato seeds. Perfect placement. Perfect depth. Every seed. Every peat pod.
Just thought you'd like to know!
Matthew in Los Angeles -
what can i grow indoors as far as herbs ?????
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Great info! If it will survive through winter as a perennial, do you need a lot of succession plants? Also how hot will it live through?
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hi? When you planted your first garden what did you do? Did you plant a lot of different veggie plants? Or did you start out with just a few? Have you been using the same soil or did you find one that is more beneficial? When I start a project I want to start big. That's just what I do. I'm kinda overwhelmed getting started with the soil and at least three raised beds. Can you help to calm my overloaded brain. If I could plant every seed I would :). I just get excited about the seeds sprouting and the feeling of satisfaction cause they are alive and I helped them. Thanks.
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Very interesting!
After watching so many of your videos, I've realized we don't eat a lot of herbs in my home. xD I think the most we use is basil and that's about it. :o So I don't think I've ever eaten cilantro not seen its seeds, lol. But the leaves look pretty and I've heard it mentioned in cooking channels on TV, hahaha. :)
Best regards, dear sensei~ -
I just started a few herbs in the greenhouse early this week. Nothing germinated yet but they should start popping in a few days!
Thanks for the video Gary
Chuck -
I just love growing Cilantro. I have transplanted it into the garden too! I found after my first year, it reseeded so easily, I no longer grow it from seed and just let nature take care of it. The only thing, like you said, they do not like to be transplanted, so the self sowed plants do much better than transplanted. Do you grow a slow bolting-heat tolerant variety?
Also, I recently learned, to my surprise, in many other countries, they refer to the leaves as Coriander too. Odd huh? It makes it confusing when cooking foreign dishes.
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