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Celery Information
Celery
Apium graveolens
An Autumn harvesting shoot crop. Essential in salads and one of the main three stock vegetables (Celery, carrot, and onion)
Moon Planting Type: Leafy
Soil Type: Any Soil
Aspect: South-facing
Light: Full Sun
Hardiness: Not Hardy
Moisture: Well-drained
pH: Acid (6.5 - 5.5)
Height:
Spread:
Celery Growing Notes
Sowing
Traditionally sown in trenches and then earthed up to blanch the stems. but you can buy self blanching varieties. Sow under glass in early to mid spring and plant out in a trench 30cm deep and 50cm between rows..
Pruning & Thining
Harvesting
Keep in the ground until required, and protect from hard frosts.
Celery Varieties
- List 1
- List 2
A first rate, vigorous, upright-growing, self-blanching variety, producing deliciously flavoured, smooth, succulent, mouth-watering white sticks!...more£2.25
Enjoy the crisp, succulent, full-flavoured stems of Giant Pascal in your summer salads. And if soups and chutneys are more to your taste then look no further, because its perfect for them too! Trailin...more£1.30
Very early for use from August. Self-Blanching Variety....more£1.55
An easy to grow variety with a strong Celery taste and beautiful curled leaves. Ideal for soups and salads. High vitamin content. Attractive in flower border....more£1.55
British hybrid celery with tall mid green sticks. Fast growing and stands well. Very good flavour, and ideal for soups and salads. Healthy young plants, individually rooted in small plugs of compost....more£4.95
If you love the flavour of celery but cannot be bothered with the earthing up involved in trench celery this variety is for you!Bred for vigour and uniformity as well as a crispy texture and flavour. ...more£1.99
An early maturing variety with crisp and crunchy stems to eat raw and which retain their colour and full flavour when cooked. Mid May despatch for lifting September/October....more£5.95
