... Save Corriander seed

[Millymollymandy]

I'm here, I'm the coriander queen! Wait until the seeds turn brown but by then they will already have been dropping off and you do realise you are going to have coriander self seeding everywhere in your greenhouse next year don't you? I usually just put some sort of bowl or something underneath and rub off the dry brown seeds into it then pick through them later on to get rid of most of the stalks/bugs etc before storing the seed.

Hate to say it but my own home grown seed never has a lot of flavour, I presume it's the lack of heat during the growing season (tho' maybe not at the moment!), but as yours are in the greenhouse they must be baking hot. In any case you will have free seeds for sowing.

[Green Aura]

Likewise, ours were really small, compared to the ones you buy for cooking. And although they smelled lovely they were disappointing to eat.

[WhiteWolf]

Cheers ladies,

Ours is flowering so is on the way, we shall scoop up what we we can ready foe sowing next year.

Regards

WW

[george]

I read that when the plants start to turn brown, you cut off the heads and put the plant heads in a paper bag in a cool, dark place. When the plant is completetly dried out give it a shake and you will have a bag full of brown seeds.

I tried this and ended up with brown seeds so that part worked but I moved countries before I managed to use the seed so I don't know how good they were.

It might be worth a try if you want to reduce the amount of self set coriander plants in your garden next year.

[Millymollymandy]

Oh god I've got the next wave of coriander coming up all over the place after digging up spuds then having some proper rain for the first time in months and there's a lovely wave of green seedlings everywhere - it's spare space so I might as well use it as a green manure.