Once a week is perfect. Make it a Sunday ritual, like watering your plants or doom-scrolling through social media.
If you prune regularly—every seven to ten days—your cilantro will keep producing leaves for about two months. That’s two months of homemade salsa, guacamole, and Thai curries. You’ll feel like a culinary genius.
And if you travel and forget? Don’t stress. Cilantro is forgiving. Just don’t ignore it for three weeks straight, or you’ll be back to buying those sad plastic clamshells from the grocery store. You deserve better.