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My celery seeds never seem to produce so I've gotten to where I'll buy celery, use/eat it down to the inside center green shoots, then just plant the entire stalk roots into the ground or pot. I've even seen celery cut down to 1" from the stalk bottom grow from the center of kitchen scraps from cooking. I just find it easier to replant store bought celery and collards (clean to eat then plant the "bunch stalks") than to plant from seed. Turmeric, ginger, cranberry beans, and even potatoes, green onions and garlic I grow from kitchen "scraps" much easier than from seed. I'm experimenting with a cabbage 🥬and other brassicas now. 😊 Oh, and I do use plastic domes over plants to warm during freezes in FL.
Well I started my seeds a few mins a go trying to make them sprout. It is hot here in La so I will see still have some if don't work. Doing on a leap of faith.
@@tonialantrip3872 every place in the US can grow things by April. It may not be warm season crops, but brassicas, lettuce, etc. will easily grow in Washington in spring. If you want transplants ready for April, start them in February.
The detailed zone information is very important and is what is most lacking with most RU-vid gardeners I think. Even just saying what zone they are in so I can get a basis. This is really good!
@@PaulaStephens-w1j I am in 7a and planting a lot this summer too many to mention. Currently I have kale, lettuce, turnips, harvested radish already, green onions, and lots of garlic. Got young cilantro and parsley growing from fall plant. Had probably a foot of snow and temp down to 10 degrees F and I am amazed almost everything survived except broccoli and cauliflower that wasn’t doing great anyway. Also peas survived but not expecting much from them. Have two nectarine plants from fall sow that seemed to handle that with ease in small grow pots! My dill died but it’s ok I sowed more indoors last night. Just put out winter sow onion and leak in cut plastic containers yesterday. Also this past spring/summer was my first time gardening. I’m in my 30s. It’s warmed up a bit for a little while I tried direct sowing arugula today think I might sow more radish too. Loving it!
I’m still trying to grow celery but in the meantime I take a bunch of celery (from the store), cut the bottom two inches from the base and plant it in a cool spot in the garden. Don’t bury it at any time or it’ll rot; instead set it on the ground and push it in about half an inch then keep it watered about two or three times a week. When it begins to grow, water about one or two times a week or when it’s stressed or wilts. Soon, you can harvest another bunch BUT always keep at least one stalk with leaves at full length, small one is fine. I covered mine during the arctic blast. I have three of them growing. They’re biannual so they may go to seed the second year. I’ll have to see.
Being a new gardener, this is the best video i have ever seen. I plan to follow everything you said. I feel i will be very successful. Thank you very much.
One of the best gardening channels, period. Looking forward to your videos once you’re here in Florida. Hopefully I’ll have my garden figured out by then 👍
I am so glad I found your channel! I also live in SE NC zone 8b and finding i formation for LOCAL planting and gardening has been difficult. Thank you so much for sharing all this information!
USDA Zones don't have anything to do with when you plant your seeds for transplants, your ESTIMATED LAST FROST date is the date you need to count back from to figure out when to start your seeds.
Love your videos! Thank you for the amount of time and effort you put in to making them. I learn something EVERY TIME I watch one of your videos!! -From the PNW Zone 8B
I’ve delayed winter sowing in MA because of the warm temps. Now in addition to your regular tips, I now have to follow southern sowing schedules. I just feel bad for all the wildlife confused by this crazy “winter”.
I wanted to share how I got my celery to grow with great success. The seed are so tiny, I take a small tray like a tupperware approx. 4 x 6 inches. I fill with any potting soil and sprinkle the seeds over the top and lightly cover with a little more soil. I slowly soak the whole tray and set aside. I never let it dry out, I keep a light moist soil. Now this is the weird part. Sometime the seed don't germinate in the timing on the packet of seed. However celery is a very slow grower at least for me, but it will always grow even it is months later and this is the fun part. I do NOT thin. When they get to be approx 1 to 2 inches I will pull out a 2 x 2 inch chunck of my sprouted celery out of my tray and slowly pull apart and plant ... I got hundreds and I am still have them growing today and it has been over 1 year. I never chop the whole plant off, I take what I need and it keeps growing more. So, I just started another seed tray and again, it took months to sprout. but they did. and I will plant as soon as they reach 1 to 2 inches.
Coastal SC here 8b- Im late🙃 cant believe I missed this video days ago. However, Im proud to say I've started many of these veggies and bed preparations based on the last couple of years watching your videos and taking note. 😊 i have even already gotten my seed potatoes. Poor Dale, you wore him out Dad before filming❤
A few years ago, I did an experiment with my onions and leeks. I sowed half of them indoors under lights in February and the other half into pots which I placed outside in my cold frame in February. While the ones sown outside in the cold frame took longer to germinate and put on growth, by harvest time, they had all reached the same size and matured at the same time. So now I don't bother starting them indoors since it is so much easier to sow them outside in February and forget about them. They germinate when the conditions are right for them. Southern Ontario zone 6b, last frost early-mid May, long day onions.
thanks this was awesome - I was stressing about what to do when for my spring crop in SC - this answered ALL of my questions - so informative - thanks again!
Thank you for the excellent advice and tips you give us in your videos. I’m a regular listener and have learned a lot about outside gardening from you. I live in Seattle and I have two 5 foot tall by 3 foot wide floor plant stands in my condo with two grow lights hanging from each shelf. Plus several windowsill, grow lights and a variety of heat mats. I wonder if you are interested in creating a video about how to grow vegetables throughout the year indoors. Which plants would be suitable and successful, and the ones to avoid. I searched, through your playlist, but didn’t find a video about the subject. Thank you once again for being an excellent educator. You’re helping gardeners all around the world. That’s a wonderful thing to do. Cheers sincerely, Ray.
Hey Dale, I'm from western NC, can you do a video of when, how, and what to do of these types of plants ginger, culantro, lemongrass, and daikon radish? Thank you.
I really like episode that recommend what to grow like this one. I also like tomato taste test video (that was how I discovered your channel) as well as mid season performance report or end of season review of different varieties of tomato or any other crops from some of your other videos too. I am an urban gardener with no garden space tho, container gardening through and through. I am wondering if you would consider making a video on the varieties of the popular crops that gardeners with abundant space usually grow, that might work for urban container gardener like me. I feel like there ought to be at least few varieties out there that will do ok in container for every tomato, cucumber, eggplant, pepper, or even zucchini, etc. Another common constraint among gardener with small space or in urban setting is that the amount of sunlight we get might not be ideal and there isn’t much we could do about it. So, recommendations on crops that would still perform ok without a lot of sun would be very helpful too. Totally get it if that isn’t something you want to do, as your settings is vastly different. I just think there are a lot of urban gardeners out there that would benefit from such information. All of the videos I have found on the topic pretty much said to grow herbs and lettuce, and that’s that. I am already growing those and could use more challenge. Either way, thanks for the video. Love Dale’s adventures! Ps. I grow both baker creek’s Pink Chinese celery and Utah Giant celery, and Utah Giant is much easier to grow for me. Also, just FYI, Chinese celery’s culinary application is somewhat different from the standard celery (also casually referred to western celery according to my Asian family.)
I will share something that I discovered this season. I have 6 weeks old celery transplants ready to go in the garden and I’m sure it’s because of soil block, 40 of the plants I started germinate and there so happy growing amazing.
It is too hot in Hawaii to grow celery at 600 ft. I grow cutting celery instead. Thank you for this informative video on when to start plants in different zones. Peppers germinate best when soil temps are between 68-80. If you grow them indoors in a cold place they would need a heat mat. Cilantro likes temp above freezing but less than 75 in the daytime. Italian parsley can handle sun. Partial shade in summer. Green onions, tomatoes, cucumbers, eggplant can grow year round zone 11 and up Bulbs and garlic are better planted in the fall. September for onions from seed, October 25 for garlic bulbs.
Thank you so much for this. I just recently subscribed to you but I have been a gardener for 4 years now and am now in the position to start a small farming business with a friend of mine in Roxboro, NC. I particularly like to grow Spicy peppers, tomatoes, Kiwano among other crops. That Giant Romaine is beautiful and I would love to know where you sourced your seed from (I too frequent Baker Creek and I'll check them for that Romaine, but if you got it from elsewhere, please let me know). I would also love to keep in touch and work with you in a capacity that is to your comfort level. My friend will be focusing on his animals while I will be in charge of the vegetable & fruit production as well as any crop that can benefit the animals. Again, thank you for your efforts and looking forward to a productive 2024.
40% shade clothe extends my season by three months. If I don’t use it the sun just cooks everything. Last year it even stunted the okra that is known to love heat
Amsterdam celery (celerette) is my favorite- it doesn’t make big crunchy stalks, but the herbal celery flavor is off the charts, and they’re incredibly prolific and cold-hardy. I planted two of them last year and they started off slow, but I didn’t buy a single stalk of celery all fall & winter, and they sauntered right through our polar snap- lows of 17°F, highs of 24-26°, for more than a week- without being covered at all. If regular celery doesn’t work for you, I recommend Amsterdam celerette!
Im in 6a/b and we can still get cold snaps through all of April. So for us, I plan to plant warm weather plants the week after mother’s day as long as the 10 day forecast looks good.
For celery, i saw a REALLY cool reel about a farmer using incandescent Christmas bulbs under the frost cover for some of their otherwise frost tolerant plants. Looked so cool!!
I planted celery (direct sow) in my partially afternoon shaded garden bed last March and the seeds took about 30 days to germinate. Then they grew all spring happily though not quite mature. Then the heat hit and some of the plants died off but not all. Now I’m down to 5 or six that were giving me nice sized celery stalks starting in the fall once it got cooler. I made the mistake of not harvesting the mature stalks before the deep freeze here in East Texas where it got down in the teens and lost most of those stalks. The plants all survived but I had to go and cut them back after a week or so and I could tell what stalks were dead and what might’ve survived. Basically they looked like a celery plant with cut off outer stalks and fresh green leaves in the middle (kind of like when you regrow one from the store). They’ll grow back and the celery from the store that I planted in that same bed were totally unaffected by the freeze. I wish I had thought to cover the bed though and saved myself the loss of those beautiful mature stalks! I had planted new celery seedlings direct sow also this fall and those seeds popped up right away, as in within a week!😱I was shocked! Those did fine through the freeze also. I think I’ll have some more yummy celery to look forward to this year! My trick has been to plant them direct sow. I’ve never had any luck planting in a tray and transplanting them. 🤷🏻♀️ I’m in zone 9a now btw. Last frost date in mid to late March. I finally got a greenhouse so I’m excited to have gotten my tomatoes, peppers, eggplants all started already in the greenhouse with heat mats. Some have sprouted already. Very exciting!
To say I am living vicariously through you is an understatement! I live in Zone 2B/3a (Manitoba, Canada). Really enjoy your content - thanks for sharing your knowledge.
I would like to try fennel this year. I think it would grow like dill. The seeds are highly beneficial for health. I think the bulbs would cook like cabbage. Let a few grow to seed to replant next year. Another item I would like to try is Jerusalem artichokes. I am looking around for some starts to plant and dedicate a spot just for them since they are so intrusive and come up on their own every year. I hear they can be fermented and that reduces the potential for flatulence.
This makes me super excited to go through my seeds and see what this next growing season holds! For those of us who can't start seeds inside, you think a green house would be ok?
I am in Seattle prepping to move back to FL. I grow celery here - I agree it takes forever for it to grow. That said, it does just fine when buried in snow. The difference I may have is that I direct sow and they get all the weather that comes. I also plant Hardneck Garlic in the ground in September and they are amazing. (I actually have them in pots this year so I can take them with me when I move ) .
I am also in Eastern NC and I grew 23 pounds of celery last year. I planted 3 varieties in November and they spend the entire winter with a row cover over them. Mine survived the recent hard frost this way. I am hoping not to have as much as I did last year!
I am in central SC and I also start my celery in the fall. If we have cold nights, they benefit from covering. If I forget or we have an unexpected cold snap, they will look horrible but bounce back.
Thanks for making your content as I'm just north of you (Surf City). I started Garlic (in planters) around Christmas. They sprouted pretty quickly. When we got super cold the weekend before last I worried about them taking a hit from the cold. Can you just leave garlic out even if they've already sprouted no matter what the temperature goes down too?
These videos are changing my life. I love how much work you put in and how all the information os clear and concise but i never get bored watching. Awesome work.
Have you tried germinating your celery seeds in a papertowel before sowing the seeds? It should cut down on your time waiting for germination. I'm gonna give that giant romaine a try...thanks!👍
Thank you for giving the context for different zones. I remember watching zone 9 and 10 gardeners years ago when I first started gardening, and I started my seeds in early February. Everything died, and I had to start again.😅
I planted my celery in May after the last frost. I left it alone the first year and then let it die on its own and it came back the following year and produced seeds. I harvested the stalks, and left the base. It has been returning every year. The problem I have is hallow stalks. Any suggestions?
If someone needs a heat-tolerant chard, perpetual spinach (aka perpetual chard) has no problem whatsoever with heat or cold. I grew it in Houston in 2023 where we had 3 months of 100+ degree days, and it was super productive despite being out in unsheltered full afternoon sun. It also tolerated a blast of cold weather down to about 18F (I had it covered) and it laughed at that too. I use the leaves as a spinach replacement (spinach hates Houston) and the stalks as a celery replacement (I hate celery). This stuff is idiot proof, container friendly and apparently indestructible.
I started celery last year in spring I had it planted behind my tomatoes and for some reason it survived the summer and is still in my bed I’m in zone 9b
Another great video ! What is the mixture of transplant soil please ? Also, you mentioned Ground Cherry’s, is there anything special to know ??? Got some seeds, can’t wait to try !
Im in NWArkansas, zone 7a/b. Usually our frost free date is April 15th. I have had success sowing carrots and beets as early as February under plastic. But they tend to peder out and not really make a decent root. Last year, i tried planting seed again in June. I had a sheet hanging over the bed to keep them cooler in the afternoon. Not only did it work, I had a decent harvest in a short period of time. I still want to sow carrot seed early bc i can, but I'm thinking of at least waiting till May.
Interestingly my broccoli, cabbage, and cilantro made it through the arctic blast with just a tarp protecting from the wind we were in single digits for a week adn got down below zero, extremely surprised! Great vidoe thatnks. I was wondering if the Texas Grano onion does well for you going through spring? I'm in north MS so I think our light conditions are similar though you are warmer in the winter than we are.
Enjoy the videos. I am so happy you addressed all the variables for starting. Zone 6 can't start Nightshade until mid-March. Can start some cold crops at the end of February... until then, vicariously living through you. PS celery I had great success winter sowing in jugs, placed shady spot in garden did awesome. Maybe that will work for you?
I think you can start some nightshades in Feb if you’re willing to grow a few early determinate tomatoes and smaller peppers in pots. You can start a handful to get a huge jump, then carry them in on the odd frosty night. That’s how I start picking tomatoes in late April my way. I already have tomatoes ready to go to set out by March 1, and I’ll bring them in if it is going to freeze.
A question about your irrigation in the garlic bed: I see quarter inch dripline but no drip outlets or sprays...do you just periodically puncture the line every few inches for drip irrigation in these beds. Seems like that might work since I think that when I copied your cistern/dripline model, it was just gravity fed. Did you ever add a pump to increase the pressure? 9a/Jax
Can i plant directly into snow? That would be iceoponics eh? (copywrite pending) I think Ill wait till I see the ground again in march/april here in my zone 5. Seriously though good lists, i took some note for months to come, ty sir.
At $1 each, it is tempting, but I want to try these pink heads, and I could say that about almost any vegetable. Growing your own food probably won’t be cheaper than store bought stuff, but that isn’t really the point.
I just cheated. I transplanted two bunches of green onions into my garden. LOL! Then they`ll grow sometimes until next year, provide plenty of green tops, and eventually bloom and make tons of free seeds for mass sowing. I have leek seedlings about 4 inches tall and my green peas from a dry store package are coming up now in zone 8a Louisiana. I`m waiting on strawberries and a dwarf mulberry tree to arrive. I can propagate both. The birds will love the mulberries. I`m getting strawberries that produce lots of runners. I`m going to a store in town in 3 weeks to get more fruit trees...thinking about a satsuma, Asian persimmon and Asian pear and also ordering four Celeste fig trees next month or sooner depending on the forecast. But I had to upgrade my emergency solar some with more efficient panels and thicker cables before spring storms, so I couldn`t get everything I wanted yet. And I went ahead and got the supplies for making a few gallons of blackberry wine too because I pruned and fertilized my 100 ft wild patch and expect a bumper crop.
Great information here! Last year was my first year starting the entire garden from seed and I started most stuff too late. I thought I was starting early enough but still ended up later than I wanted. I think you are right in that most gardeners think now or even next month is too early but it's really not. I underestimated how tolerant a lot of plants are of the cold.
