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Stalked celery: how to grow in the garden? Video
Petiole celery is used in cooking. It is stewed, fried and put in salads. If you have your own plot, try growing this vegetable in your garden bed. Such products are very profitable. It is without chemicals, you do not have to pay for it, and you can always pick fresh stalks from the garden to prepare a particular dish.
Preparing seedlings and beds
Petiole celery is best grown through seedlings, so it will produce production this year. Prepare seed boxes in late February and early March. Fill them with fertile soil. Sow seeds, cover with glass, or place crates in a large plastic bag. Place in a room with a temperature of 20–22 ° С. The first shoots will appear in 12-18 days. Remove glass or film. Remove weak shoots, take care of the rest – water, remove weeds. After the appearance of 2 leaves, pick it off.
In May, prepare the seedlings for planting outdoors. To do this, it must be hardened. Take the celery out onto a balcony or non-insulated veranda. He will quickly get used to new lighting and temperature conditions.
Prepare a landing site. You need to start doing this in the fall. To do this, dig up the selected area and prepare deep, 30 cm, furrows. Their width from each other is at least 40 cm. Since celery loves a lot of nitrogen fertilizers, fill the furrows with humus and cover them with a small layer of earth.
Secrets of growing stalked celery
In the spring, after hardening the seedlings, plant the stalked celery at a distance of 22 cm from each other in trenches or on a garden bed. It all depends on which variety you are using. By this time, plants should have 5–6 true developed leaves. A different planting method is required because celery is divided into self-bleaching varieties and traditional (trench) varieties. In the first, juicy petioles appear on their own, so the plants do not need to be hilled and can be grown in a simple garden bed. The latter are planted in trenches and it is required to cover the stems with a 20 cm layer of straw. Or add soil to the trench as the stems grow. In the dark, tender juicy petioles are formed, which are used in cooking. If you grow petiolate celery of trench varieties on a flat bed, then when they reach 30 cm in height, wrap the stems with thick paper. “Whitening” will take place under it.
Celery is not afraid of small frosts, but it is still better to plant it when the weather is good.
Water stalked celery often; it loves moist soil. But you should not overdo it, this will lead to the appearance of rot. Remove weeds and loosen the soil.
Harvest stalked celery of self-bleaching varieties 11-16 weeks after planting in the ground, and trench – in late autumn before severe frosts. But do not miss the moment of harvesting, otherwise the stems will become fibrous.