Growing cilantro at home: one simple step for fast sprouting and quick growth, ready to eat in just over fifty days

People who love growing flowers and vegetables will worry about whether the plants and vegetables they grow are doing well even when they go out. Xiaoya thinks that growing a few pots of vegetables yourself at home not only beautifies the home environment and makes the balcony look lush and green, but also makes you feel great. Cilantro is getting more and more expensive. If you enjoy growing vegetables, why not grow a few pots of cilantro on your balcony? It is simple and convenient. All you need is an empty flower pot at home.

Growing a bit of cilantro and scallions on the balcony, even without a flower pot, you can use empty oil drums or mineral water bottles. Cilantro is not delicate at all, and its distinctive fragrance makes it less prone to bugs, with very few pests and diseases, and it is easy to care for. Pick some each time you cook, and it is really tasty and convenient. After the Start of Autumn is the best time to grow cilantro.

Cilantro grows slowly when planted. Try this little method, and you can eat it in just over a month, lush and green and really thriving

When growing cilantro, be sure to pay attention to the season. Generally, summer temperatures are too high, hot and stuffy, which is not suitable for growing cilantro. So after August, September is the most suitable time to grow cilantro. Cilantro sown at this time can grow relatively fast, whether in a vegetable garden or on your own balcony.

The planting method is to sow directly, but before sowing, the seeds need some treatment. This treatment is very simple, but also very important, and that is cracking the shell. Cilantro seeds are round, so you must step on them to crack the shell, or use a rolling pin, glass bottle, etc., to press them into two semicircles, and then sow. Only then can they sprout as early as possible, sprout fast, and grow fast.

There is another trick: soak the seeds in water, then put them in the refrigerator at around 3 or 4 degrees, leave them for a day, and then take them out to plant, making it even easier for them to sprout.

When sowing, you can plant them a bit densely, because you can eat them while thinning them out. What you eat in front is still growing behind, ensuring the yield without affecting the growth of the cilantro.

When sowing, you also need to pay attention: prepare a flower pot with a larger diameter, for example a long trough planter, or one with a diameter greater than 30 cm. This way you can sow more, and there will be more soil and richer nutrients. When sowing, the seeds cannot be planted too deep; just cover them with 1 cm of soil. Covering with too much soil affects sprouting and growth.

Then water thoroughly, and cover the soil with a layer of straw, dried grass, or the like, to keep the soil moist and provide shade, so the seedlings come up especially evenly and in especially large numbers.

The soil must be fertile soil rich in humus, and it should be loose, without too many large stones, and not too compacted. Adding some peat soil or leaf mold is good. Only then can cilantro grow fast and grow big.

After the cilantro sprouts, do not water too frequently; it is enough if the potting soil has a little moisture. When the seedlings grow to three or four leaves, they need supplemental fertilizer water. Give them more sunlight, and water with some fully decomposed cake fertilizer water, sesame residue water, or manure water once a week. The cilantro grows especially lush, with abundant branches and leaves.

The growth cycle of cilantro is about a month and a half. More than fifty days after sowing, it can be harvested and served at the table.