A few
months back I read an article about re-growing celery you buy at the
supermarket. It seemed easy so I thought I’d give it a try. Why not, I would
just throw the end of it away anyway.
The cut
end is typical, about 2 inches long. Just put it in a bowel with plain water
and leave it in he window.
After
about 2 weeks it’s alive and growing.
After 4
weeks roots appear.
As soon
as the roots appeared I planted it in a pot.
After
another 3 weeks it was transplanted in the flower bed. Here its about 8 inches
tall and doing well.
Shortly
after finishing my bucket garden project with the irrigation system I
transplanted into a bucket. It’s about 10-11 inches tall. Also I tied the
stalks together to keep them from spreading out. Celery normally is hilled like potatoes with only the leaves above ground. I'm hoping I can get away with just keeping the stalks tied together
This
summer is hot and normally the months of July and August I don’t plant in the
garden because the sun is so intense vegetables do very poorly. But the celery
has been doing so well maybe it will survive.
I’ll keep
updating until it turns into a salad!
15 comments:
Mike,
Be careful the birds and squirrels love celery!!! We've been doing this process for a little bit now and love how things turn out.
You can even let the celery continue to grow,produce flowers and then harvest the celery seed.
Wow! yours looks great. I tried this but never got any roots. It finally rotted. I'll try it again.
Squirrels, that's just great now I have more food for them :-) I have more squirrels in my yard and trees than mosquitoes...
Interesting about the seeds, there is so much to learn about growing your own stuff.
RiverBend,
I started a second one and it failed to root. Wondering if the Celery was to old to root. You never know how long produce sits in a truck or in a warehouse before we get it.
That is a neat project, you could put some paper around it to blanch it but it might just be a color thing they are after, don't know if it makes a difference. They may spray something on the celery like they do potatoes to keep them from sprouting, probably don't want to know what they do to it.
That is just amazing! We have celery growing in our garden but just bought plants. We will try your way next season - thanks!
SBF,
Thanks for the idea I'll give that a try.
I tried this but the heat zapped it. I'm glad to see that this worked for someone so I'll try it again. I love celery! Celery doesn't love the heat though.
Tami,
This summer has had too many sun filled scorching days and I'm hoping the celery survives. So far so good but it better cool down soon.
now that is something i did not know...thank you. i dont use a lot of celery throughout a year, but hate the thought of having to burn gas to drive miles to town just to buy fresh celery when needed and having to toss what is left. i think i am gonna add some organically grown celery to my next shopping list and give this a try.
I have never heard of doing this with celery. I will have to give it a try.
Well isn't that cool. Never thought of doing that to waste stuff. I wonder what else would sprout like that from throwaway bits.
Great idea, Mike.
R.
Wish I was smart enough to think of this... There's probably other veggies that will do the same thing if they are fresh enough.
Nice Mike! Will give it a shot. SD card reader in my computer is messed up so no pics of the garden for now. Take care.
Cannot wait to see how this works out for you! Hope you gets lots and lots of celery!
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