Cilantro, Plants for Your Sweet Tooth, and Weeds

02/03/22 • 28 min

Plantrama - plants, landscapes, & bringing nature indoors

In this episode Ellen and C.L. talk about cilantro and coriander...one in the same plant. We have agreeing opinions about Stevia, and explain the reason that it takes awhile for some new introductions to reach the marketplace. The podcast ends with Anne’s question about hauling weeds to the compost...necessary?

:30 What’s For Dinner: Coriander/Cilantro

10:38 Eat/Drink/Grow: Plants that are natural sweeteners...beyond sugar.

19:41 Insider Information: How the horticultural supply chain works

22:25 Love Letters and Questions: Anne wonders if she can leave the weeds in the garden after pulling

:30 What’s For Dinner: Coriander/Cilantro

10:38 Eat/Drink/Grow: Plants that are natural sweeteners...beyond sugar.

19:41 Insider Information: How the horticultural supply chain works

22:25 Love Letters and Questions: Anne wonders if she can leave the weeds in the garden after pulling

Previous Episode

Dried Mushrooms, Identifying Evergreens, and Repotting Houseplants

This episode starts with ideas for cooking with dried mushrooms. We explain how to tell the difference between pine, fir and spruce trees, do a dive into Ericaceous plants, and end with a question about taking cuttings and transplanting houseplants in the winter.

:30 What’s for dinner: How to cook with dried mushrooms

9:16 Insider Information: Pines, firs and spruce.

14:11 Eat/Drink/Grow: Ericaceous plants

22:11 Love Letters and Questions: Shannon wrote about repotting houseplants now.

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Growing Perennials and Cannabis From Seed and Plant Communications

Have you ever wondered if plants talk to each other? Do you want to have a big number of perennial plants cheaply? Would you like to know what it takes to grow Cannibis from seed? Ellen and C.L. cover these topics in this episode.

:30 True or False: Plants talk to each other. 7:22 Eat/Drink/Grow: Growing Perennials From Seed 21:06 Love Letters and Questions: R.B. wrote: “Last year I tried growing Cannabis from seed and it was a failure.