is Luke perfect? no. Does he always offer the "#1 best advice"? No. I have seen plenty of videos where he doesn't know certain things that the commenters know, or he titles the video wrong, etc etc. However, he is an amazing gardener and has a lot of knowledge to give, and is giving it away for free. Thanks Luke. You've made me a better gardener.
I came here for the blanching process. I wasn't sure exactly how to go about it. Once again: I drank coffee in my living room, watched one of your videos and learned!! Comfy and free! THANK YOU!
Love your videos m8. So I just showed my mum this video because I’m going to try and grow celery for her in the UK. I said before I hit play, he will tell you about soil, watering, spacing and great tips. You did not disappoint. My mum was oh he’s a lovey man lol
I have grown celery from seed this year. The plants are as good as those at a nursery. This year I used the Park Seed trays and “sponges”. I am using a full spectrum light set up too. Absolute game changer. It is so amazing the difference from the cheap planting trays at big box stores. Ill be using your great tips for sure! 😁
Thanks for explaining the blanching! I had a feeling I saw something about celery needing increased mounds while it grows, like potatoes, but didn’t know what it was called. Appreciate it!
@1:05 ... lol me yesterday thinning out 20 plants from 1 cell haha Thank god, some other gardener showed a good video how to do it by submerging them in water. Shake shake shake and very gentle, and lots of patience
lol..... to be fair if you don't know what your looking at the leaves are very similar. I once bought a plant that was labeled as butternut squash that turned out to be pumpkins... all mistakes but all turned out to be fun mistakes we can laugh about later hahahaha
Blanch with newspaper rather than soil. Using soil gets sand and grit down into the celery which is hard to remove. Just wrap the celery stalks with newspaper and then tie with string.
I just took a couple toilet paper cores and cut down the length, then just a simple matter of opening like a clam shell and placing over the celery. Curious to see how it works.
@@dcwatashi Still watching as the celery is young yet, but seems to be good idea. Did see bunch of ants at base of celery once, so, maybe not. wait and see.
Up here, we put the 2 L milk cartons around the plant once it gets bigger. We cut off the top of the carton and bottom off, so the carton can be placed over the celery plant with the tops sticking up out the top, and then it grows beautiful big tops and huge stalks that are protected from the sun by the milk carton, and when you harvest them, you have to pull them out of the carton or just cut the carton off it and it always fills the carton with its stalks. It get HUGE inside there. Wild celery grows in boggy areas, and we have found if you want your celery to not be woody, they need more water than suggested here. Not boggy, but they are very thirsty vegetables, and if they don't get enough the stalks will be woody, tough, and sinewy.
Totally agree. I've used milk cartons & I've also used corrugated cardboard which I got at UHaul years ago when I moved. I also use the cardboard when I blanch my leeks. I also agree that celery is a swamp plant & hates drying out. It causes it to be bitter & bolt. I use a 5/8" soaker hose on a timer. I water 3 times a week (depending on our rainfall) but I try to make sure the plants get 2" of water a week. Usually with the soaker hose that's about 3-3.5 hrs per week. The other thing I've learned about celery is that it loves nitrogen & with damp soil in my raised celery planter, the slugs seemed to like to visit. I found out coffee grounds are high in nitrogen BUT slugs hate coffee grounds. So once a week I go out & scatter my grounds between the rows. Makes the celery plants happy but I have had almost no issues with slugs since.
I’ve grown VERY successful celery using your tips. I’ve had experienced gardeners come into my garden in awe of my yield. I can’t get celery starts in KY, so I start indoors from seed. I grow baby starts in plastic cups. I grew in raised beds with much success. It can be done from seed gardeners. Full spectrum fertilizer, daily water, good compost. No bugs bother them here. Water and mulch water and mulch water and mulch. I never had to blanch my celery. I grew tango. I mulch with the fine wood chips that no one else wants. Only $7 a scoop at my natural products center.
I know this is an older video, this was awesome. I am trying celery this growing season in zone 6b. I am so excited and was clueless how to begin.....thank you
Luke you are great, a wonderful person, gardener, parent, etc. I promise you can start your own celery starts. Just don’t put it under the light after you separate until they recover.
I grew my celery fro the stalks that I bought from the grocery store. It is doing well. I am growing it in a container. I'm gonna replant it in a bigger container. Thank you for this information. :)
This is my first year attempting to grow celery and I am pretty excited but nervous because of the cold nights we have been having but hopefully covering them up will be good enough😊. The only other problem is keeping the chickens from eating it😂
You garden like me, I don't use a shovel or gloves. Great tips. We just bought celery this year and it's doing extremely well thanks for our neighbor's cow compost. That stuff is like gold to me. Everything grows we actually look like we know what we are doing for the first time ever.
I can’t wait to try this. Celery is one of the hardest things for me to keep in the house and I like to eat a lot of it so I’m hoping I can supplement my grocery store supplies with some home grown. I live in Miami, FL though so I dunno if the climate will present a challenge.
Actually I sowed them myself the very first time I grew them, and had great success for the level I was at! Now I've bought starters as I had no time to sow, and I plan to really get them large and juicy this time, so I'm soaking up all your tips!
I started celery cold turkey from plants in growing bags. Used ollas to water. Blanched with cardboard. The plants are gorgeous. Need to learn how to harvest them.
This is awesome. I love growing celery but restricted it to cooking because it was so bitter and sharp tasting. I followed this immediately after seeing it and it works! Love your channel. I live in Nova Scotia so we may have a similar growing season.
I'm making my first attempt at celery this year (I'm in middle TN). I'm going to try growing it in a big pot on the patio so I can move it around to follow the sun. I haven't been able to find "starts" so I'm just going to have to try this from seed. But thanks for the tip on blanching! That was great information!
This is my first year growing celery, i have one plant that looks amazing, other two are little thin, the stalks are thin that is, i am going to go out and start blanching them now. Thank you!
Wow I actually did something right. This is my first year growing celery and planted it in one of my new garden beds which I filled with pure compost that I got from neighborhood farms because I didn't want to pay for soil to fill the huge bed. I do know I planted them too close together though so I should probably pull at least every other one. Who really needs 30 celery plants? I planted them from seed and they grew just fine. When I transplanted them they were about as root bound as anything I've ever seen which is what yours looked like too so I guess that is normal for celery to do that.
Gapeys Grub I grew my celery from seed also. One set of plants in a bog area that stays moist. The other set of plants I planted in a raised bed that has very loose soil, I used the LASAGNA METHOD of soil amending. I heard that you should not let celery soil dry out...evenly moist. Luke is right, give the celery room to grow.
I grow my celery In a mix with peatmoss, worm castings, perlite, lime, Epson salt ( small amount). Used cuttings I rooted from Organic celery. I got alot of celery, the stocks were thinner than what you see In the grocery store, but good nonetheless.
Ooooohhhhhhhh that's why my celery was kinda tough. Some of it was great but i think that's partly because of the wild, rogue tomato plants that just volunteered all over the garden and took over the planet. I had to dig to find my celery plants. Some were great, some were kinda woody. This year, no more crazy tomato patch. The garden was kind of abandoned last year. Lol.
Thanks for this! I'm growing celery for the first time and wondered why people recommended using cardboard milk cartons after blanching for celery. Now I know. Thanks!
I have never grown celery before. My cousin always grows it and he cuts PVC pipe in foot long pieces and the diameter I am not sure of but if you imagine buying celery from a store thats about the diameter. After the celery starts coming up or if you buy it as plants he places the PVC pipe over it and lets it grow up through it and they are always beautiful plants. Its just a suggestion to see if it works for you.
Instead of snipping off the extra plant, can you cut the roots in half? Or will this weaken the plants too much? I usually look for double plants in a container at garden shops then pull them apart. Hello from Traverse City! 🍒😄
There's no reason that you can't cut the root mass apart with a VERY sharp knife. You also shouldn't handle the seedlings by the plant stems, only by the leaves or the root mass. Don't pull them apart.
The Gardeners these day's only think that everyone grows in their time zone and climate. I'm watching you from Central Florida zone 10, also it's 40 at night and 70-80 degrees during the day. June-August is our dormant season because of rain everyday, high humidity and cloud covered skies. We grow the rest of the year with different hours of sunlight and crops.
So i just got Organo Reublic 55 variety garden. Its pretty much exactly everything i need for a full year of planting. Could yall put together a package like that in your store?
I grew celery one year from a local greenhouse. The directions told me to plant in partial shade. Then an older family member told me to wrap it with newspaper and band it, once it was big enough. Would you try this method and why not?
I know this is an older video but.... First thanks for all the great videos, my leeks are doing so well this year because of you. I can't wait to try your propagation method next year. Celery... I just got back from the store and they wanted 4 bucks for a bunch of celery and I said no. It's definitely time to try growing celery, my soil should be set to go, full sun won't be a problem but I'll have to watch Ph. Thanks for this video, at 4 bucks a bunch it's definitely going to be worth growing celery.
I’ve planted the ends from celery I purchased at the grocery store. (Miraculously, they’ve sprouted! Other than applying the “Trifecta,” what additional tips do you have?
I am hoping to sharing my Caribbean version of growing celery this weekend, but I learn something a little to late, that's the info about the compost.. though I use a lot in the backyard garden, I also used soil...so this new info I'll mention in the video, thanks for this guide ***** . Blessings to your garden.
My single celery plant got huge flowered went to seed and now I’ve got baby celery plants all over the garden here in October. Will they make it through the winter?
Oh my I planted seeds of celery a few days ago in grow tray. It is a non blanch type. I got the seeds for free. I also read they need 2 inches of water a week. They do have wimpy roots.
Blanching helps (which is what I was trying to find help on) but growing in AZ is different and the watering guides don't work; make sure to adjust for your area.
My mom is trying to grow celery and, I’m the one who tells how to do it. I am confused kinda of what he said, because I’m in 3rd grade, and sometimes, I get distracted. Hopefully the dogs don’t eat it, my mom would be sad mad. 😂 wish me luck! Ima start growing!! 😁
Firstly why did you not build a trench (at least 30cm deep and 35 cm wide) for your celery , as in the long run this will be easier. The celery trench is normally prepared in April and allowed to settle before planting time. The bottom of the trench is forked (loosened) before a layer of well trodden compost or manure is added. On top of this (up to 8cm from the top) a layer of soil is added. On either side of the trench two mounds are present (to allow easy covering of the celery), The plants are planted in rows 25cm apart. The celery are blanched in early August when they are 30cm high by removing any side shoots, surrounding the stalks with newspaper or corrugated cardboard and tie loosely, after which the trench should be filled with soil. In late August mound moist soil against the stems and compete hilling up to give a steep-sided mound with only the foliage tops showing, ensuring that soil does not fall into the celery hearts. Celery is a thirsty and hungry crop, needing plenty of water in dry weather and feed during the summer months. Secondly you did not mention why the celery needs to be blanched, and the reasons why are that this will lengthen the stalks, whilst at the same time reducing stringiness. Or you can grow a self blanching variety that does not require a trench or any hilling up and they mature much quicker. These are planted in square blocks (not in rows) so that the crowded plants will shade each other.
Antonio Pachowko Well everyone has their own methods. I share what has worked for me in the past, and this truly works. I appreciate always hearing more methods on how to grow, and as the old saying goes, there is more than one way to skin a cat. I did not go into details about why the celery needs to be blanched because that is not a "how" thing, that is a "why" thing. and so for the purpose of a short, simple, and understandable tutorial I have omitted those parts.
