Learning how to water plants to increase growth in pots, container or garden - especially how to water roots and tubers. Specialities: root growth or tuber growth of lawns, fuchsias, geraniums, dahlias and begonias.

1 July 2011

Insects Help Coriander Pollination

insects useful in coriander pollinatonNot only bees are useful in gardens; smaller insects are especially useful in assisting pollination of coriander flowers (as with tomatoes, misting with water and tapping the stems also helps).

Apart from the fact it has toppled over (like trees), presumably because it is top-heavy due to too much feed in the new compost (too much for this stage of growth, that is), the recently-potted coriander is doing quite well . . . considering.

I have only tied up half of the stems and left the other half horizontal, resting off the floor. The plant is still indoors. See what happens . . ..

2 comments:

diana said...

haha good luck. it'll get leggy pretty soon. just stake them once the branches start to spread out too much like what i did too mine. leaves have turned yellow. it's already bearing lots of fruit. just waiting for them to be ripe now. got about 40 sprays of them.

Jimini said...

Well don't come round here showing off! Only joking. Had to put mine outside in torrential rain due to decorating, so it's looking a bit sorry for itself.