Cilantro Cultivation And Care, Including At Home, As Well As A Description Of Varieties With Characteristics And Reviews

2024 Author: Bailey Albertson | [email protected]. Last modified: 2024-01-17 22:26

Cilantro: growing and care

Cilantro, otherwise called coriander, is an amazing plant that, thanks to its spicy aroma, has found application in cooking and also in perfumery. In order to get a harvest of this spice on your site or at home, you need to know about some of the features of its cultivation.

Content

• 1 Types of cilantro

• 2 Plant varieties: seed and vegetable

  2.1 Photo gallery: popular varieties of coriander

• 3 Landing rules

  3.1 Compatibility with other plants

• 4 Growing coriander

  • 4.1 Outdoors
  • 4.2 At home
  • 4.3 In the greenhouse

• 5 Diseases and pests

  5.1 Photo gallery: cilantro pests

• 6 How to care for a plant

  • 6.1 Top dressing
  • 6.2 Watering

Types of cilantro

Coriander (cilantro) is a common herb. Annual, a spicy spice belonging to the umbrella family. It has a straight stem with a green fluffy "crown" blooming with pinkish or white small flowers. The seeds of the plant are called coriander, and the vegetables are called cilantro.

Greens - cilantro, fruits - coriander

Plant varieties: seed and vegetable

The State Register of Seeds includes 13 varieties of coriander for seed use and 25 varieties of vegetables. Most popular titles:

• Amber. Included in the State Register in 1976. Recommended for growing in all regions of Russia. Ripening period 85–90 days, has a fragrant smell. Seed yield - 1.5 kg per m ². The leaves are tender and tasty, suitable for first and second courses, salads. The seeds are added to sausages, baked goods and marinades.
• Alekseevsky 190. Included in the State Register in 1998. Seed yield - 1.47 kg per m ². The variety does not fall or crumble. Recommended for all regions of Russia, tolerates frost and is resistant to pests.
• Medun. Included in the State Register in 2014. Recommended for cultivation in the Republic of Crimea. The seed yield is 2.24 kg per m ². Winter hardy, suitable for winter and spring sowing periods.
• Caribe. Included in the State Register in 2006. Leaves and young stems are used as salad greens, dried leaves and ripe seeds are used as a spice. Late ripe. Recommended for growing in all regions. The yield of greenery is 1.5 kg per m ². It should be sown in the ground as soon as possible, it is not afraid of frost, it tolerates bad weather.
• Borodinsky. In the State Register since 2005. Mid-season. The vegetative period is 40–45 days. A spicy variety with aromatic herbs, used for salads, meat and fish dishes, dried leaves and fruits (seeds) are used as a seasoning. The yield of greenery is 2.5 kg per m ².
• Venus. Included in the State Register in 2003. Recommended for cultivation in all regions of Russia. Late grade. Leaves with a delicate rich aroma. Used by culinary experts as a greenery for salads and decorating dishes, seeds are used as a seasoning. Yield of green leaf - 3 kg per m ².

Photo gallery: popular varieties of coriander

Fragrant greens of the Borodinsky variety are used as a seasoning

Variety Alekseevsky 190 can be grown throughout Russia

Amber coriander was the first to be included in the State Register

Venus is a late ripening variety

Landing rules

A sunny, well-warmed place on a personal plot is chosen for sowing a crop.

The landing procedure is simple:

1. Sowing begins at the end of April and is carried out until the middle of summer, sowing a new batch every 2-3 weeks. Thus, there will always be fragrant greens on your table.
2. The seeds are planted directly into the ground: so the greens will be early and thick.

3. Seeds are planted to a depth of 1.5-2.5 cm, the distance between plants in a row is 5 cm, and between rows - 20 cm.

   

   The seeds are planted to a depth of about 2 cm

4. Before emergence, crops can be covered with foil.

Compatibility with other plants

In crop rotation, cilantro comes after winter crops and root crops - legumes, greens, tomatoes, cucumbers. It is better to change the planting site once every two years, since this plant is demanding on the soil, in poor areas, seedlings grow weakened. Sowing of tomatoes, cucumbers and other crops into the aisles is allowed.

Cilantro can be planted even in the aisles of other crops

Growing coriander

Cilantro is an unpretentious plant. It is grown in the open field in a personal plot, in greenhouses, at home, in boxes on a windowsill or on a balcony.

In the open field

The process of growing cilantro in the garden is simple. You just need to sow the seeds, in the future the coriander will do it itself, and the seeds winter well in the soil. It is only necessary to leave a few plants at the place of growth in the fall, and the first shoots will appear in early spring. At this moment, they begin to sow new seeds in the beds. After the seedlings emerge, thinning and weeding are required.

The first greens emerge from last year's overwintered seeds

At home

Coriander grows well and develops at home.

1. Seeds are sown in boxes with loose nutrient soil, deepening by 2 cm, with a distance between seeds up to 5 cm.
2. The ground should be lightly pressed.
3. After that, the boxes are covered with plastic wrap.
4. Do not allow the soil to dry out before germination and when seedlings appear.
5. Illumination is important for growing greenery on the windowsill; fluorescent lamps are used for this.

You can get rich greens at home after a month of cultivation.

In the greenhouse

Growing cilantro in a heated greenhouse has several advantages:

• greens all year round;
• no pests in greenhouses;
• reduction of the vegetative period to 15 days;
• combination with various crops (can be sown in the aisle of crops);
• the ability to grow plants on shelves.

For successful germination in greenhouse conditions, seeds need warmth, but the temperature should not be higher than 18–20 ^o C.

When growing cilantro in a greenhouse, the growing season is reduced to 15 days

When sowing to other seeds, deepening is not required; they are sprinkled on top with a thin layer of soil. After germination, the seedlings are thinned out to form strong bushes, leaving a distance of 6-8 cm between them.

Diseases and pests

Ramulariasis is a common disease of coriander. The causative agent of the disease is a fungus.

With ramulariasis, brownish spots appear on the leaves

The disease develops throughout the growing season. It affects leaves, stems, buds, flowers and fruits. Small brownish spots appear on the leaves, which eventually grow and merge, the leaf dries up. Brown spots appear on the stems. With extensive damage, the entire plant turns brown and dies.

The disease develops in wet rainy weather, with frequent dew. The main control measures are seed treatment, destruction of plant residues.

Cilantro can also be affected by powdery mildew. The fight against the disease is preventive - compliance with crop rotation, burning of plant residues in the fall, deep digging of the soil.

To prevent powdery mildew, it is necessary to carry out deep digging of the soil

The main pests of coriander are umbrella and striped bugs, winter scoop, wireworm and coriander seed-eater. The seed eater gnaws holes in the fruit and remains in them, which damages the seed yield up to 80%. The scoop gnaws the stem of the plant, and the root infects the wireworm.

Photo gallery: cilantro pests

Winter scoop gnaws cilantro stalks

Umbrella bug damages vegetative plants

The coriander seed gnaws holes in the fruit

Pest control measures are preventive: strict adherence to agricultural techniques, destruction of plant residues after harvesting in the fall, deep, shovel with a bayonet, digging

How to care for a plant

Caring for cilantro does not require special knowledge and high costs from an amateur gardener and consists in:

• removing weeds;
• regular watering;
• pulling seedlings;
• loosening the soil.

Coriander requires little maintenance

Top dressing

During growth, cilantro does not require additional feeding. Coriander prefers a soil rich in humus, the addition of wood ash, phosphorus and potassium-containing fertilizers, which are applied in spring or autumn for digging the soil, is favorable.

Watering

Watering the plant is of great importance. During the growth of greenery, it is important to moisten the soil in time, preventing it from drying out. However, during the formation of umbrellas with fruits, water should be less often.

The fragrant cilantro greens are great!

Cilantro and coriander are the names of different parts of the same plant: cilantro is a fragrant green, and coriander is a fruit. The plant is unpretentious in growing on a personal plot, in a greenhouse and on a windowsill and is capable of producing crops at any time of the year.