"Bob Hobden" wrote in message
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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.

Coriander hates the heat and bolts as soon as the temps climb. I've always
sown it in cooler times of the year if I've ever needed to sow it. These
days I just let it go to seed after planting it in somewhere out of the way
and then it just self perpetuates.