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  • From: Road's End Farm <organic87 AT frontiernet.net>
  • To: Market Farming <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Market-farming] wilting cilantro
  • Date: Mon, 7 Jun 2010 19:43:00 -0400


On Jun 7, 2010, at 3:17 PM, Richard Robinson wrote:

I'm looking for strategies to keep my cilantro from wilting. I cut bunches and wrap them with a rubber band, and plunge into water in the field--no more than 30 seconds from first cut to water. I usually cut when it's cool, either morning or early evening, but no matter what I do, I often get wilting bunches within a few hours of cutting. Not all the stalks wilt, but inevitably several will, and get not just soft, but close to dried out before too long. I have not discovered a pattern to my problem.

Anybody have a good technique for cutting cilantro to reduce wilting?


We don't cut ours; we take it roots and all, bunch it, put it in water so the roots are covered with water; it stays in the water at the market.

As it wants to bolt I suspect it won't do well as cut and come again anyway (we just seed a new planting about every three weeks), and I do think it holds better with the roots. If the soil is soft you can just pull it, if soil is dry a trowel is useful.


-- Rivka; Finger Lakes NY, Zone 5 mostly
Fresh-market organic produce, small scale







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