When you buy a packet of ‘coriander seeds’ for sowing, you actually buy coriander FRUITS. The little hard ball you see above is the fruit, containing 2 seeds each. These two chaps look like they are playing basketball!
In preparation for my ‘wild for a month’ challenge, I’m growing all sorts of herbs: as well as coriander, we’ve got parsley, thyme and tarragon. These all go well with the kinds of wild foods I will be picking. And no recipe is complete without an onion (well, in my experience anyway!) so I’ve currently got 35 of them sprouting in the windowsill. I’d like to get a good picture of them, but they seem utterly reluctant to pose for the camera. I’ll get to them eventually when they are a bit larger and are looking photogenic!
Talking of non-photogenic, the picture below is of the newly lined carrot-planters.
Our soil is full of stones, and after producing carrots that resembled rude finger gestures last year, we decided to give them their own space to grow in. Hopefully we’ll achieve more socially acceptable shapes!
The healthy forager 