Why does my Corriander keep dying?

Aubrey_Thicket

Hi all

I'm really baffled... I go to Tesco and see GROWING Corriander on sale on the shelf. So, I pick one up and take it home. However, no matter how or where I put the plant it dies. For example. I bought one last month and put it on the kitchen window. Result... it died within a few days. So I figured that the Kitchen might be too warm or stuffy so I bought another growing pot Corriander and re-potted it and put it out in the Garden. Result... it started to droop within minutes and died soon after. So I figured it was too cold outside. I bought another and put it on the Conservatory window Coll (which can get quite warm/hot). Result.... you guessed it!

What am I doing wrong guys? Tesco must be laughing at me.

Thanks all.

elsien

Those supemarket herbs are forced and crammed too tightly together in the pot which doesn't do them a lot of good. It's pretty easy to grow from seed, and then you can also start it off at intervals for a continuous supply. Probably work out cheaper in the long run as well.

Aubrey_Thicket

Thanks elsein

I was just being lazy and thought that it would be worth sacrificing a quid to let somebody else (Tesco's farmers) do the initial dirty work. But I came unstuck!

Thanks.

Callie22

I've never tried it with coriander but I have split pots of supermarket basil to grow on. I've usually ended up with about four or five pots and they've been very successful. If you don't want to grow it from seed then you could try it with a coriander plant.

Fruittea

Do you have any corriander seed at home (the eating kind) if so sow some somewhere coolish and it will grow away really well. I have some in 4 inch deep pots on the window ledge and 8 inch pots outside and it grows really well. Don't put to many seeds in the pot maybe space them an inch apart and plant half an inch down.
That way you can keep yourself in coriander all year around.

TheGardener

Are the plants displayed in the fridge at the supermarket? In our local Sainsbury's they are always in the fridge (...no, I don't know why either - I once asked the manager an he said the display guide said fresh herbs should be in the fridge, I said it probably meant the bunches of cut ones but he was having none of it...) and as a warmth loving plant, they are probably virtually on the point of death when you buy them - they can't recover from the cold.

Jojo_the_Tightfisted

They're weak plants, flimsy and delicate - coriander grown from seed or if by some miracle, one of these plants survives outside in the sun, is much tougher, slightly more fibrous and full of flavour.

Sow some in a sunny place and let some run to seed - the flavour of fresh coriander seed is amazing.