any tips on growing Celery????

[gianni]

decided i might give Celery ago this year, am i too late to start? and does anyone have any usefull tips and help thanks

[Capsid]

It's very difficult to achieve the quality of shop bought celery. It can get very stringy and mine had brown marks on the stems. I made a soup but had to sieve it to get rid of the string. Tasted fine though but no good for salads.

They need a lot of water and good compost at their roots, then they need to be wrapped in cardboard or paper to get nicely balanced stems even with the self blanching varieties. The result was disappointing for me and I've not bothered again. I grow celeriac instead.

[binley100]

I've got some seed germinated but they're tiny little seedlings and seem to be taking ages to grow.

[COMPOST CORNER]

I bought plants last week from Focus diy as I think I was bit late to sow them.
Grew some last year. They did OK and only went a bit stringy towards the end of the season.
Seemed to have a slightly bitter flavour, but I didn't exclude light very well so I put it down to that.

[pjh75]

Never had any luck with celery... ended up going through a whole packet of seeds last year and couldn't even get it to germinate!

[taff]

bit late for seeds but ok for seedlings from gc or something

if you want them to eat, you'd best read up on all the methods for collaring/trenching etc, if you want them for soup or cooking, put them in a well manured/composted place, and water them really well, all the time, every day, and cover them with a collar or similar to keep the munching insects off, like celery leafminer.

[PAULW]

Dont bother with the trenching celery it ends up stained full of mud and slugs you have to keep faffing about wrapping the stems, get the self blanching one easy peasy grow in a block and keep watering thats all you have to do.

[zazen999]

I've explained the easiest way of growing celery before; in pots sat in trays of water.

Loads of previous posts on in - but I'm off out in a minute so you might find it using the search button...

[Capsid]

I've explained the easiest way of growing celery before; in pots sat in trays of water.

Loads of previous posts on in - but I'm off out in a minute so you might find it using the search button...

Now that sounds like a great idea, why didn't I think of it?

[Flummery]

Why would you want to? It's nasty!

[pjh75]

Why would you want to? It's nasty!

Agree with that.

[taff]

heathens....the pair of you....:0

[COMPOST CORNER]

You can't make a decent soup without a few celery stalks, and how do you make chicken stock without it?

[Jeanied]

Mmmmm - celery and stilton soup!

[zazen999]

You can't make a decent soup without a few celery stalks, and how do you make chicken stock without it?

I agree [although I don't make chicken stock], I use it in lots of recipes.

I grow my pots outside the greenhouse door in the courtyard so I just nip a few stalks off when I need them. The ones that went yellowish a few months ago [from last spring's sowings] are now green again and all bushed up.

I also pour boiling water on them when sowing to get them to germinate.....it really works!