celery

[helly]

Hi has anyone planted out their celery yet. It's the 1st time ever that I am having ago and now my seddlings have turned into plug size and are thickening out. i have been hardening them off over the past week . I am very nervous now about putting them into their final bed. Any advice anyone ....

[burnie]

I've only grown the self blanching varieties and they were pretty hardy,as you're on the west coast,you should be frost free now.By the way,I'd still blanch the stems with some soil as I found the "self" bit didn't really do the job.

[zazen999]

Aye.

I have 2 little beds on the go. Planted out about 5 weeks ago.

1 is 16 plants from seed in a grid, with a little raised bed around them, which I am earthing up as they grow.

the other is a square 'moat' around a red swiss chard, the earth in the moat will fall in as they grow and I will also earth them up as they grow.

They are supposed to be self blanching but I'm earthing up anyway.....

They are Red Celery from Real seeds.

Although they were all sown and planted out on the same day, the grid ones are looking better.

[sewer rat]

I have about 250 self blanching celery plants which I hope to get planted out either on Wednesday or over the next weekend. I pricked them out into 3" pots about a month ago, planning to plant them out about a fortnihgt ago but either been too busy or the weather has been crap (east winds ain't very warm). Still, at least they'll be big enough to withstand any crap weather now.
They will be block planted and the outside rows will get a wall of straw round them later on in the season to help the self blanch to blanch

[Snadger]

Aye.

I have 2 little beds on the go. Planted out about 5 weeks ago.

1 is 16 plants from seed in a grid, with a little raised bed around them, which I am earthing up as they grow.

the other is a square 'moat' around a red swiss chard, the earth in the moat will fall in as they grow and I will also earth them up as they grow.

They are supposed to be self blanching but I'm earthing up anyway.....

They are Red Celery from Real seeds.

Although they were all sown and planted out on the same day, the grid ones are looking better.

I have six plants which were all that germinated from a packet! I can't remember whether they were self blanching or not but with so few plants I will be blanching anyway.
Are you just heaping soil around plants without cardboard or paper surrounds Zazen?

I've grown blanched celery before with cardboard surrounds and found that when I removed them the slugs had had a field day. *Wonders whether this would be the case with just soil as a blanching medium*?

[zazen999]

Yes, just soil. Although i have a spare bag of straw so after SR's suggestion I might use that.