I want to grow the best Celery ever

[Sinbad7]

Can anyone tell me the best way to grow celery?

I don't usually grow it but a friend has bought me some plants, so want them to do really, really well.

Sinbad

[Sinbad7]

[Deb P]

Rich soil and plenty of water is what celery likes. I grow self-blanching types in a shallow trench with lots of old manure in, and earth them up as they grow like potatoes. They usually get a bit of leaf miner, but I just pull off any affected leaves and eat the rest! ;D

[Emagggie]

I have grown some seedlings for the first time myself Sinbad, they look very healthy in the pots but I must admit I'm apprehensive about planting them out. I will plant mine next week...so keep in touch ;D

[Sinbad7]

On the label it says to plant the crown on the top of the soil, where I think I would have put them in a trench, so thought I'd better get your expert advice on this.

Good luck Emaggie with yours, we'd better both watch out for the leaf miner :)

Thanks for the advice Deb, will give them plenty of water, not sure that I have any rich soil as the plot is nearly full up now.  I thought I'd plant them in a grid.

Sinbad

[saddad]

Loads of muck and more water...  ;D

[Sinbad7]

So, can I do the muck bit when I plant them Saddad?

Sinbad

[saddad]

Unless the herbivore has just dropped it yes...  ;D

[TheEssexYorkshireman]

I'm about to try celery too. Got my plot March 07 and the complete patch was under 3' of couch grass so this is my 1st full year after hand 'de-rooting'. I've got celeriac growing in the green house too anyone grown that .. any tips?

[manicscousers]

our celeriac's in the ground, well rotted muck and water, we grew some brilliant stuff a couple of years ago, last year, tried celery, no luck so back to celeriac this year  :)

[Deb P]

 I had a good crop last year, first year of converting my couch field into a plot...grew it in shallow trenches in one of my raised beds following on from overwintered onions.....it seemed quite happy!

[Sinbad7]

Hope mine looks as happy Deb, plan on planting mine tomorrow.

Great photo.

Sinbad

[realfood]

For stephen, go to http://www.growyourown.info/page98.html for details of growing celeriac, one of my favourite vegetables.

[Emagggie]

Very impressed by DebP's smart photo, what a messy person I am by comparison ::)
Planted in a shallow trench with a good helping of horse doings and slug pellets all around. Hoping for wonderful things Sinbad, you too?

[Sinbad7]

So, I planted it and put some manure on the ground first, I didn't do a trench, and watered it well, today I found some well rotted manure that I had forgotten about so put more manure on and watered again ;D  How often am I meant to be doing this for?  Once a week?  Once a month?  Or have I done this enough now with the manure?  Lots of water, is that every couple of days?

The label didn't say if it was self blanching, so how will I know?

Good luck with your's Emaggie, has it grown any yet LOL?

Sinbad

[Emagggie]

Ooooh YES Sinbad, they are ENORMOUS already even ;D ;D ;D
(wot a liar, they just look the same as yesterday)
Don't know how often we should feed them though, where's that Deb P when you need her ;D?   

[Sinbad7]

Have you taken their photo Emaggie? ;D

[Deb P]

Bunged my celery in yesterday, shallow trenches which I flood with water (about a canful each) about every four days unless it rains well. Feeding? I do my initial watering in after planting out with some liquid seaweed, and again every month. If they are nice and green , that's all they get...if they start to yellow slightly they  get a handfull of chicken manure pellets down each trench! ;D