During the summer, I bought a small Cilantro plant for our herb garden. And it grew beautifully! We enjoyed the herb in many salsas and burritos.
As the summer aged, so did our Cilantro. It flowered and all the tasty leaves changed from their roundish, broad, fringed shape into a thin, stringy form, with thick stalks.
And then the entire plant expired and dried, leaving twigs with seed pods where the flowers used to be.
Then, while perusing our beautiful Herbs and Spices book by Jill Norman, I discovered that Coriander is Cilantro seed! Those pods were Coriander!
This may be old news to many, but it was a fun new fact for us!
So I harvested the Coriander and put some in the soil and some in a jar for the kitchen.
And the seeds have sprouted into new Cilantro plants! Yay!
I absolutely LOVE Cilantro and was saddened by it's short life before it went to seed.
But now I can keep the cycle going and have fresh young Cilantro all the time!!
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