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Harvesting Coriander.

safe site to buy isotretinoin Coriander has been one of the unexpected gifts of this year’s garden.  It’s also known as cilantro, Coriandrum sativum.  The seed is generally known by a derivative of its Latin name while the plant uses an Italian name.  Finding the sound of the word pleasing, I’m happy to use the term coriander for both.  I bought a plant last year, and this June I found five little seedlings coming up, a gift from the Lord of the Harvest.  I planted them.

http://iowabookgal.com/about.php Through the year coriander became one of the dominant aromas of my garden; I would smell it every time I stepped inside its sacred confines.  I grew to like it, too, on my pasta; it adds a heat to a sauce, like pepper.  This is generally not my favorite thing in food but I am very partial to the flavors of all the things I grow myself.

People at times complain about it as a herb because it goes to seed very quickly, and once it sets seed it dies.  Hence by August the plants were yellowing.  But the flavor of the leaves is present – though in a milder form – in the seeds, and so I spent a little time harvesting the seeds, getting in the end about half a pint of seeds from the four plants that survived.  This way I will have the flavor of my garden on my pasta through much of the winter, and seed enough for next year’s plants to boot.  It was easy enough – all I had to do was strip the seeds – which were attached fairly stoutly and did not fall off too easily or otherwise misbehave – from the umbels where they had formed.

The umbels with seeds attached.

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