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Produce => Pests & Diseases => Topic started by: tim on December 09, 2004, 08:53:23

Title: Celery again.
Post by: tim on December 09, 2004, 08:53:23

Apart from being decimated - & then some - by slugs, or might it be the wee worms in it? - it's all splitting at the bottom!!

Next year?? = Tim

Title: Re:Celery again.
Post by: Mrs Ava on December 12, 2004, 23:43:18

Oooer Tim.  Doesn't look very tasty does it.  Such a shame.  No one on our site had any success with celery this year for one reason or another.  Fingers crossed for next.

Title: Re: Celery again.
Post by: RSJK on December 24, 2004, 15:28:35

just what mine looks like Tim, first time l have grown celery (trench), seems such a lot of hard work to get nothing out of it at the end of the day. Was really looking forward to some good old fashioned celery with my christmas salad.

Title: Re: Celery again.
Post by: Palustris on December 24, 2004, 20:06:00

Ditto ours, but it still makes absolutely delicious soup, so waste not want not.

Title: Re: Celery again.
Post by: tim on January 12, 2005, 17:05:48

Of course, I was stupid to use newspaper to wrap them, it just melts - but would brown paper offer significantly better protection against slugs? = Tim

Title: Re: Celery again.
Post by: john_miller on January 12, 2005, 21:36:40

Wouldn't anything more durable provide more protection for slugs rather than against them?

Quote from: tim on December 09, 2004, 08:53:23

Apart from being decimated - & then some - by slugs, or might it be the wee worms in it? - it's all splitting at the bottom!!

Next year?? = Tim

Wee worms?

Title: Re: Celery again.
Post by: tim on January 13, 2005, 11:19:21

Alright - I'll grow self-blanching!! Which did very well this year.

Worms - about 1" & V thin. Composty type? = Tim