Imagine my surprise this week when I looked in the vegetable garden and saw my cilantro was still growing!
Typically in southeast Michigan, we get cooler temperatures and snow in early to late November. And we did get a couple snow showers in November, including one snow shower of three inches of snow.
Snowy weather and cooler temperatures would have killed any cilantro.
However, our southeast Michigan weather has been very different this fall.
A lot of warm days (close to 60 degrees Farenheit) followed by very cold, almost wintry days.
When I picked cilantro from my vegetable garden on Thanksgiving day in late November, I thought it was the last cilantro I would be picking for 2021.
I was wrong!
My cilantro is still producing in the garden.
Several years ago, I planted lettuce late with the plan to eat the lettuce on Thanksgiving Day.
It took a lot of work to protect the lettuce from the snow showers and cold temperatures in the single digits (Farenheit).
I built a cold frame for the young plants so they wouldn’t freeze.
And yes, I did pick the lettuce for Thanksgiving dinner!
We’ll see how much longer I’ll be picking cilantro this year.
