The Makkelijke Moestuin in 3 minutes

The Makkelijke Moestuin in 3 minutes

Here you'll read how, with our system, you can harvest up to 5x more than from a regular vegetable garden. On just a few square meters, all natural, pesticide-free, and with almost no work.

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Makkelijke Moestuin vs traditional vegetable garden

1. Makkelijke Moestuin vs traditional vegetable garden

Giving each plant enough light, air, water, space, nutrients, and attention is pretty tricky. Not in a Makkelijke Moestuin: there, it happens all by itself.

 About us

2. About us

Why Jelle started Makkelijke Moestuin, how it grew into a movement, and why we work differently from most companies.

 The garden bed

3. The garden bed

The garden bed is the heart of the Makkelijke Moestuin system. Its smart setup gives your plants almost everything they need from the start.

 The soil mix

4. The soil mix

In a Makkelijke Moestuin, you don't use garden soil but a special growing mix in which all your plants thrive.

 The water reservoir

5. The water reservoir

Why a smart water reservoir helps your plants grow better while saving you time and effort: how it works, and how and when to water.

6. The sowing system

In a Makkelijke Moestuin, you sow in 30 x 30 cm squares instead of rows, placing each plant in the right position with the right spacing.
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Cilantro

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Description

Cilantro - or coriander - is a popular herb that looks a lot like parsley and is known for its taste. You either love or hate it. 😉  It's widely used in Eastern and Moroccan cuisines: for stews, soups, or curries with coconut milk. 

Specifications

Sowing time: April - August
Height: 20 cm
Contents: 3 grams

In the app

Sowing: 1 April - 31 August

Level 1

seeds sown

Level 2

first seedlings

Level 3

thinned seedlings

Level 4

small plants

Level 5

first harvest

Level 6

harvesting continues

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  • The app helps you with almost everything you do in your vegetable garden: sowing, tending, and harvesting.
  • If something goes wrong, the app tells you what steps to take.
  • If that doesn’t work, you can ask us for advice.
  • If that still doesn’t help, we’ll look for other solutions together. Until we get it right.

What's so great about our cilantro?

This cilantro doesn’t flower as quickly as other species. The leaves look kind of like flat parsley, but rounder. 
 
Cilantro is an annual plant. If you sow it every few weeks, you can harvest for a long time. 
 
Like most fresh herbs, Cilantro is super healthy and contains lots of vitamins: vitamin A, various B vitamins (including folic acid), vitamin C, and vitamin E. It’s also rich in iron and magnesium. 

Cilantro

Cilantro leaves have a distinctive flavour that you either love or do not. They are widely used in curries and Asian soups.

The app guides you in growing cilantro for its leaves, but if you let the plants flower, you can eventually harvest the seeds too.

This variety is slower to flower than most other cilantro varieties.
  • Variety: Coriander
  • Family: leafy greens
  • Plants per square: 9
  • Height: 20 cm (60 cm when flowering)
  • Sowing time: April to August
  • Sowing depth: 1 cm
  • Time to harvest: from 5 to 6 weeks
  • Germination: 7 to 21 days at 15 to 20°C
  • Sunlight: sun or partial shade
  • Packet contents: about 100 seeds, enough for 5 to 6 squares

What do you need to grow your own cilantro?

Besides the seeds, you need:
Cilantro seeds
Cilantro seeds

Level 1: Sowing cilantro

Level 1: Sow cilantro

Loosen and moisten the mix in a square in the first or second row of your raised bed, then sow as follows:
  1. make 9 holes in the square, no deeper than 1 cm
  2. put 2 to 3 seeds in each hole
  3. carefully close the holes
Depending on the weather and the time of year, you will see the first green-brown shoots after 5 to 10 days.

Level 2: Cilantro seedlings

Level 2: Cilantro seedlings

As soon as you see the first seedlings, you know things are going well. They probably won't all come up at once, but give it another few days.

Then it's time for the next level.
Cilantro seedlings in a Makkelijke Moestuin
Cilantro seedlings

Level 3: Thinning cilantro

Level 3: Thin out cilantro seedlings

When several seedlings come up in each hole that you sowed, choose the best ones and remove the rest: that's called thinning out. 

It might sound harsh, but it's necessary. The cilantro needs enough room to grow. Your plants will thank you later.

If you see spots where nothing came up, sow a few more seeds.

Note: cilantro can't be transplanted, otherwise it will quickly start to flower.
You can eat coriander seedlings with a fried egg
You can eat the seedlings with a fried egg Foto: Lievelente

Level 4: Caring for your cilantro plants

Level 4: Care for your cilantro plants

After 3 weeks or so, your seedlings will become small plants.

At this stage, they don't need much attention. If the weather's dry, give them some water and remove the odd dead or yellow leaf. Easy 🙂

Cilantro plants grow better in cool weather than during hot summers. So, give them some shade in the summer months and keep the soil mix moist. This will also prevent them from flowering too early.

Other than that, growing cilantro is problem-free: even snails leave the plants alone.

Level 5: Picking and harvesting

Level 5: Pick and harvest

After about 5 - 6 weeks, the first cilantro leaves are ready to harvest.

Cut or pick the leaves. As long as you leave a centimeter of each stem, new leaves will grow from them.

That's how you keep harvesting for a long time. If the plants do bloom, try the flowers: they're edible too.
Cilantro: ready to harvest in the Makkelijke Moestuin
Cilantro: ready to harvest

What do you use cilantro for?

Fresh cilantro leaves have a strong smell and a mildly sweet flavor, kind of like aniseed. Try a leaf before you cook with it.
 
You can use cilantro in salads and sauces, stews, chicken dishes. It's great for Indian, Moroccan, and Thai cuisine. 

You can even make dips with it.
Gooische dip made from cilantro
Delicious cilantro dip

The last levels: harvesting until the plants start to flower

The next levels

If you keep cutting leaves while leaving the growing centre of the plants intact, they will produce a second crop of leaves.

Remove the plants when they start to flower, then sow again in another square.

Small white cilantro flowers have a very different taste
Flowering cilantro

So: what's keeping you from growing cilantro yourself?

It's easy to grow, doesn't need a lot of attention, and if you love it, you can use it in a lot of different dishes.

Plus: with our app and materials, it's pretty much impossible to fail 😉

Order your cilantro seeds here or get started with a complete starter kit:
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Enjoy!
PS: Thanks to Lieve Lente, Firsttimegardener en Fimmes for their photos and posts on our Dutch community.