Celery advice required

[kallista2]

Hi I am new to growing celery and wondered if anyone would recommend the sort that you do not have to earth up such as Galaxy or Tango. Do they have the same flavour or should I make more effort and go for one of the older varieties. Also there is now the option of the Chinese celery from the OG catalogue. Any advice out there from all you experts! Thanks in advance

[momol]

Hello and welcome to the vine Kallista2.

I haven't grow celery but have been growing chinese celery for several years now. The Chinese celery is very easy to grow, at their 2nd year it will starts to bear lots of flowers (which attract lady bugs) and form lots of seeds. My chinese celery is an Italian giant type which form big leaves.

[bluemoon]

I grow the self-blanching types, they are really easy and have a far superior flavour to that of the supermarket bought ones. I keep thinking that one year I must grow the trench type just to say that I've done it, but when it comes to buying the seed I just think...."Ah, well I'll grow them next year." and then stick with the easy stuff.

[kallista2]

Thanks bluemoon which variety do you recommend?

[Farmer_Gyles]

i grew celery last year - Sigfrido from johnsons - self blanching variety
it grew kind of ok - several big sticks on each, but lots of smaller sticks growing from the base
it took ages to grow
was nice enough if picked and eaten straight away, but didn't keep overnight like shop bought celery does, just went limp
people on here said about standing it in jars of water to keep it from going limp
personally i don't think it was worth the hassle - will grow a few this year to see if it comes out any better, but depends how much ground i have spare ( lettuce comes first!)