Kitchen Garden Forum

Afternoon All!

Can I ask what everyone does with their celery? I have planted mine in a ditch & they're now at the top so about 8 inches or more high. I don't want 2 just throw dirt in among the leaves so I unrolled some kitchen towel inners & put that around them first thinking it would expand to allow growth but then considered the weight of the soil might hamper this. (I tried newspaper last year & the slugs did so enjoy it!

I looked around lottie for any pipes like professional growers use but couldn't find any & can't see the bus driver being too happy with me carrying on a long plastic pipe on the bus as the hardware won't cut it for me. So over to you guys for any ideas!

Westi

Dear Westi,
when I grew celery I used old lemonade bottles (top and bottom removed) with black landscape fabric stapled to them. I tacked these to small stakes and then put them over the celery plants. It blanched them quite nicely although I never did get the hang of eating the lot is less than a month.....

I now grow celeriac to get my celery flavour hit and buy a celery when I need one.
Regards Sally Wright.

Thanks Sally - that sounds an economical & practical solution. My celeriac is my main celery flavoured crop - celery is my challenge! I am determined to master it. Last year was OK but stems very narrow & stringey - OK in stews though! Previous years I have only managed to get them about as big as they are now, so feel I am progressing but outcome I want is lovely tender long stems to dip in my humus!

Hope I still like humus when I finally succeed!

Westi

I have not grown it for about 30 years, I used brown paper to wrap around the stems, you could use off cuts of plastic downspout if you new a friendly builder