I just helped my cilantro get through a couple of nights with over night lows around zero degree. I covered it with leaves, then soaked the entire bed, and then put Agribon row cover over the top. Its now uncovered and appears to be doing fine.
But I've got other cilantro plants that I did not cover and I think they made it also. Cilantro is a very cold hardy plant. But when temps get above 80* , my cilantro bolts and goes to seed and the flavor of the leaves changes some. I won't have fresh cilantro in June through September.
I save the seed and replant about the first of August and I'll have fresh cilantro all winter. And its one of the few plants that have far more flavor grown in the garden, than what I can buy at the grocery store.
Cilantro is used world wide, from Mexico to the Carribean to Asia to Europe. And they use it in climates warmer than ours.
So how do they grow it in Mexico ?
I was watching an older Steve Raichlen Primal Grill show, he was doing Jamaican jerk chicken. He used cilantro. How do they grow cilantro in the Carribean ?
But I've got other cilantro plants that I did not cover and I think they made it also. Cilantro is a very cold hardy plant. But when temps get above 80* , my cilantro bolts and goes to seed and the flavor of the leaves changes some. I won't have fresh cilantro in June through September.
I save the seed and replant about the first of August and I'll have fresh cilantro all winter. And its one of the few plants that have far more flavor grown in the garden, than what I can buy at the grocery store.
Cilantro is used world wide, from Mexico to the Carribean to Asia to Europe. And they use it in climates warmer than ours.
So how do they grow it in Mexico ?
I was watching an older Steve Raichlen Primal Grill show, he was doing Jamaican jerk chicken. He used cilantro. How do they grow cilantro in the Carribean ?