12/13/2023 0 Comments Start celery seedlings![]() ![]() However, most gardeners grow celery as an annual crop to harvest crisp stalks. The following season, it produces flowers and seeds. The plant grows leaves, stems, and roots in its first year. When to Transplant Celery Seedlings OutdoorsĬelery ( Apium graveolens) is naturally a biennial plant.Are you ready to start growing your own groceries? Let’s dig in! If daytime temperatures are still over 80℉, it’s best to start the seeds indoors and transplant your seedlings when the weather cools.ĭespite having a reputation for being difficult to grow, planting celery in your veggie garden is worth the effort. Therefore, most gardeners start celery seeds indoors in late winter or early spring, approximately six to ten weeks before the zone’s average last frost.įor a fall crop, plant celery seeds 12-14 weeks before your average first frost date. The average time between planting seeds and harvest is around 80-130 days, depending on the variety. Keep reading to learn how to grow celery plants and keep them thriving until harvest time.Ĭelery is a cool-weather vegetable and has a long growing season. You’ll also have the peace of mind that comes with knowing your celery hasn’t been treated with harmful pesticides and other chemicals. ![]() Homegrown veggies always taste better than store-bought ones. Just make sure they don’t dry out.Growing celery in your home garden comes with numerous benefits. If you seeds just don’t germinate, try soaking them for 24 to 48 hours. Honestly, as I mentioned above, I didn’t think any of them would survive. There are quite a few bunched up together so I will try to save as many as I can. See the picture above to see how they look now. So, I grabbed a spoon and gently took some seeds with the water and sprinkled them on top of the soil. Honestly, I didn’t think they would survive the transfer to soil. How was I sowing those little seeds with their equally little germination tails into a soil medium? Maybe I had a 50% germination? (See the video above.) Oh Happy Day!Īlthough I now had several germinated seeds, I was dumbfounded. When I remember a couple of weeks later, thankfully, the water hadn’t evaporated.Īnd guess what I saw? Little tails coming out of several of the celery seeds. Since I had to clean up my kitchen, I decided to put the soaking seeds in a cabinet. When the tea water almost evaporated, I simply added water. I decide to soak the seeds in a weak chamomile tea, and left them on my kitchen countertop. (Read here how I use celery leaves.) The Solution on How to Germinate Celery Seeds: If I didn’t figure out something quick, I wouldn’t have celery this year. Twenty one days of keeping the pods moist, under a dome, and with a heat mat. I didn’t want to join the celery germination failure club. This year I bought completely different celery seeds. My seeds were probably older than 5 years. Generally celery seed viability is about 5 years. I figured I pushed my luck on the age of the seeds. I sowed a bunch of seed pods and only a few germinated. When other gardeners complained how hard it was to get celery to germinate, I simply smiled and nodded my head as if to say, “I got this. Even though I often times planted more than one seed in a pod, they are so easy to tease apart and re-pot. In about 14 to 21 days, my celery seeds would germinate. Be careful when watering that you don’t wash away the seeds. (Tamp means to press lightly so the seeds makes contact with the substrate, which is the peat pod.)Īlways keep the pod nice and moist. I lovely ever so gently tamp downed the seeds into the peat. (Note, the seeds are really small and it is really hard to only plant one in a pod.) I would sow the seeds on the top of the peat pods. Plus despite the seed package instructions, I never barely cover the seeds. How to Germinate Celery Seeds:įor many years, celery and I had a wonderful relationship.Ĭelery needs light to germinate. This is the year you will learn how to germinate celery seed. What had I done to deserve to be rebuked by celery? Well, this year I figured out. This on and off again relationship was haunting me. Some years we had a great relationship and others years it was spotty. Don’t you hate when you can’t grow a certain vegetable no matter how you try? And then one day, it magically grows? Well, welcome to my life with celery. ![]()
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