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    Celery advice please!

    I've never really been any good at growing celery, but thought I'd have a bash at it this year.
    we have a very wet section in the potager so I've already planted celeriac there...and spotted some celery plugs at market.

    i'm hoping it'll be moist enough there later on in the summer.
    and do...all celery I have bought over here has been green.
    How and when do I start to bleach it?
    "Nicos, Queen of Gooooogle" and... GYO's own Miss Marple

    Location....Normandy France
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    I've seen soil and tin foil used, I have some self blanching that need pricking out and putting into their own pots if it's not too late for them. Like you first year growing celery, so any advice re them is going to be good.
    Last edited by Cadalot; 20-06-2016, 01:22 PM.
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    • #3
      The celery plugs on sale here are self blanching and will never go white. No need to blanch them. The golden variety are paler than the green. Just let them grow and give them lots of water, they are bog plants. I never think that self blanching ever tastes as good as the sort that you blanch. However the sort that you blanch has a lot of drawbacks. Digging a trench, earthing up and keeping the slugs off. I think I will leave that to the professionals.
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      • #4
        My father always grew celery for market.
        He would plant them deep and water every evening.
        When they were tall enough, ( dont remember as it was too long ago) he would tie up each plant with twine wrapping it from one plant to the next and then earth them all up.
        They were always great big sturdy plants but a lot of work went into the whole operation as he grew a field full of plants from seeds which started around spring time and finished up around Christmas time.
        Good luch with yours Nicos.

        And when your back stops aching,
        And your hands begin to harden.
        You will find yourself a partner,
        In the glory of the garden.

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        • #5
          The celery I grew last year didn't turn out too well it was supposed to be self blanching so this time I've sown the remaining seeds for micro greens and they do taste good in salads.
          Location....East Midlands.

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            My Dad used to use the large plant pots, cut up the sides and then the base removed to wrap around the celery.

            This was the daus before self blanching types though.
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