Often times when you use celery in a recipe you only need a few stalks not a whole bunch! That is why growing it yourself is so amazing, you can just snap off the stalks as you need them!
I’ve had my celery plants for close to a year and a half in zone 9A Florida, a few have gone to seed during the summer, but others are still giving me stalks and looking better than ever
First time growing celery too and I have been growing it all year. We already had a couple days of frost but it's still going and I think I'll keep growing it next year too
I love having it in the garden. Buying it in the grocery store is wasteful when you only need a couple of stalks. Because of that I would avoid buying it. But, when I can go out and snap off a stalk whenever I want to I’ll add a bit here, there and everywhere! So yummy when combined with my girls eggs for a nice crunchy egg salad sandwich 😋
I feel your pain. I really want to try growing it. I have seeds. My success with seeds is poor. Growing seedlings seems easier to me. My success with seeds happened once with sweet peppers in seed starter discs. Even when I transplanted them before I understood what "true leaves" meant! Yeah, I'm new to gardening.
Probably my biggest nemesis is poppies. Supposed to be easy, right? Not for me. Yet, probably stupidly, I keep buying more poppy seed & trying all over again.
Lived on an organic farm for a while in my 20s, and garden grown is DEFINITELY tastier! ...except for celery. Still hate it, no matter where it's grown. 🤷♀️
Grow it in the fall. I'm in central Texas, and have a bunch of it that I directly sowed in the autumn. The carrots and the celery all survived our frosts, though the peas didn't. Occasionally I'll break a stalk of and eat it while I work in the garden; it's different than any celery I've ever had, almost kinda spicy.
I’ve seen some gardener blanch the celery before harvesting so that it grow more like what is in the grocery store, would you recommend that or just let it grow on its own?
I've had pretty good luck just chopping off the bottom inch or two from a store celery and steering it inside in a shallow jar of water, then putting it in my garden once it's a couple inches tall and the weather is right.
I love the idea of a garden, however, I don’t eat hardly any of it. #Pizza #Spaghetti #Bread #steak #Noodles #cereal #Chicken #Fries (I don’t want to fry my own from a garden potato.) I’m a lost cause.
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It prefers colder climate, like what is usually experienced during fall/spring. Celery prefers to grow during the time of year when the weather doesn’t go higher than 70-75°F (20-23°C).
Celery is not good for nutrition so it won't be good for everyone. Personally I only plant things that are good for nutrition, not interested in caloric density, but it has to be greater net calories than zero.
