Essential Tools and Equipment for Growing and Enjoying Cilantro
Tending your cilantro plants or cooking with cilantro means having the right tools to do the job in both the garden and the kitchen. …
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Dealing with Cilantro Pests
Fortunately, cilantro’s strong scent serves as a pest repellent. Nevertheless, pests like aphids on your cilantro, left unchecked, can damage and destroy your beautiful plants. Keeping a close watch on …
Dealing with Cilantro Diseases
Like all food crops, cilantro is susceptible to various fungal and bacterial diseases. Your best weapons against these are best planting practices, which help prevent disease in the first place. …
Harvesting your Cilantro
Cilantro offers quick gratification: you can usually start harvesting stems and leaves three to four weeks from planting. All parts of the cilantro plant are edible, so don’t hesitate to …
Watering, Weeding, and Fertilizing your Cilantro Plants
Once your cilantro has settled in—whether it’s in a container, a raised bed, or open ground—consistency is key when it comes to watering. Cilantro likes a long drink of water …
Growing Cilantro in Containers
Cilantro can flourish in containers. And depending on where you live, your plant can spend much of its time outside, as long as it’s frost-free, has some shade, and it …
Types of Cilantro
Growers break cilantro into four categories: leaf, seed (called coriander), Vietnamese, and culantro—which is not actually the same plant. All cilantro plants have both leaves and seeds, but some varieties …
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A Small Kitchen Garden Vegetable List
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The Best Okra Companion Plants
Gumbo, which translates to okra in Bantu, is not the only dish that can be enjoyed with okra, although it's certainly the most popular one! More popular in southern cuisine, …
