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photos or information  :)  I am trying celery (self blanching) for the first time this year and as I have no idea what it should look like as a seedling/young plant I would really appreciate any info and especially photos of your celery in its early days.  Mine were horribly spindly for weeks and then seemed to take off but I am still not convinced that they will come good.

thanks

It's tricky stuff... I don't have a pic to hand but yes they take forever to get going...  :-X

Hi, I grew self blanching celery last year but never again. Although the plants looked good .. nice and tall and white, they were tough, stringy and particularly void of celery taste. As you may be able to tell I was not impressed ....

Quote from: TheEssexYorkshireman on April 24, 2009, 12:56:00
Hi, I grew self blanching celery last year but never again. Although the plants looked good .. nice and tall and white, they were tough, stringy and particularly void of celery taste. As you may be able to tell I was not impressed ....

yes, I only heard that was the case after buying the seeds - but no matter, I don't like celery, it's for my guinea pigs  ;)  if they complain they can d**n well blanch it themselves next year...

Quote from: skyblu on April 24, 2009, 10:17:50
photos or information  :)  I am trying celery (self blanching) for the first time this year and as I have no idea what it should look like as a seedling/young plant I would really appreciate any info and especially photos of your celery in its early days.  Mine were horribly spindly for weeks and then seemed to take off but I am still not convinced that they will come good.

thanks

I'm not certain if this is going to help but this Galaxy Lathom self blanching celery I grew a couple of years back.  The picture shows it when I'd just potted it on into five inch pots.  I eventually grew it in 10 inch pots and it worked really well.  Nice and crunchy with a strong celery flavour.   :)

G x

Quote from: Georgie on April 24, 2009, 17:22:17

Quote from: skyblu on April 24, 2009, 10:17:50
photos or information  :)  I am trying celery (self blanching) for the first time this year and as I have no idea what it should look like as a seedling/young plant I would really appreciate any info and especially photos of your celery in its early days.  Mine were horribly spindly for weeks and then seemed to take off but I am still not convinced that they will come good.

thanks

I'm not certain if this is going to help but this Galaxy Lathom self blanching celery I grew a couple of years back.  The picture shows it when I'd just potted it on into five inch pots.  I eventually grew it in 10 inch pots and it worked really well.  Nice and crunchy with a strong celery flavour.   :)

G x

thanks, that is really helpful.  Mine are puny in comparison!  ::)  ah well, keep trying I guess!

I am impressed with the pics of the celery, mine is miniscule, and has been growing slowly for weeks,  I gpt fed up with it and planted it outside covered in plastic bottles.  Did not choose a self blanching type because have tried before.  Decided to do the job the old fashioned way.

Just to be absolutely clear the pic I posted wasn't of celery at the seedling stage.  I'm guessing this picture was taken in early June (sorry my record keeping wasn't what it should have been back then) and I would have sown the seeds in April.   :)

G x

Thanks Georgie that gives mine several weeks to get into action.