On Fri, 6 Jan 2012 16:04:17 -0000, "Bob Hobden"
wrote:

Sue cooking a curry tonight has prompted me to mention something that has
happened on our allotment this year. Early in 2011 we planted some coriander
seeds (for leaf!) and they grew as usual and went to seed quite quickly as
usual. Because we didn't need the ground we left them and on pulling them up
in the autumn the seeds scattered across the plot. We now have a beautiful
green coriander sward on that part of the plot, it's growing very slowly and
has got to about 6inches tall so far, looking like a green manure crop. It
does not seem to have been affected by the couple of frosts we have had.
Maybe it's best planted in the autumn, it will not go to seed until the
summer comes so we will get months of use.


I have had variable performance (also in West London). Last year I
sowed 'Calypso' in pots in the greenhouse and also in open ground.
Also, Fothergills 'Cillanto for leaf'. 'Calypso' was initially
disappointing.

I lost track of which was where during the summer.

Whatever. Whichever grew, I harvested and then pruned (read hacked
down indoor and outdoors) stems that were heading for flowering and I
got more crops of leaves. My freezer is now well stocked.

Blowed if I know which are which, but despite my negligence during the
autumn, I have viable plants in the unheated greenhouse and outside in
open ground from which I can harvest leaves.

(I hope that I can rinse off the fox urine from those surviving
outside!)


Regards
JonH