Planting on celery

[vikicats]

I have got eight celery plants which are about 10 cm tall in a small seed tray. They appear to be ready to be potted on. I'm thinking I should pot them into 9cm pots and start to harden them off during the day ready for planting out in a few weeks but basically this is just guess work on my part and would appreciate advice from someone who knows what they are doing!
Thanks

[Feral007]

I've never grown celery so I'm watching this with bated breath! We are a family of four, 3 are celery lovers so this could be a winner. Ali

[taff]

I plant out straight from buying them as seedlings/baby plants. I can't be bothered to raise them from seed because it's so fiddly, having said that, I uisually do with celeriac.
Ok, back to celery. If you've raised them yourself and indoors, harden off and plant out. I usually stick a big cardboard tube round mine, to try and keep off the leaf miners and the celery munchers [sometimes it works] like this


also,they are heavy feeders and really need a lot of water, think bog conditions...

[solway cropper]

At 10 cm they're about ready to go in their final positions. I grow celery from seed (yes, it is fiddly) and prick out the young seedlings into three inch pots of MPC where they stay till ready to go out.

[Alison]

Mine are still teeny, will be pricking them out for the first time tomorrow if I have the time