Planting celery

Celery is a valuable vegetable plant of the umbrella family, possessing a spicy aroma and excellent taste qualities. At the same time, it is not afraid of cold weather and even can withstand small frosts. Today, three species of it are cultivated: root, petiolate and leafy. The rules for planting and caring for celery of different species and varieties are slightly different, but in general, agrotechnics are not complicated.

How to plant celery?

Later varieties of celery are grown in seedlings, and early ripening sow right on the garden in early spring. As has already been said, the plant is frost-resistant, so that you can sow beds as soon as the earth recoils. In any case, pre-seeds must be soaked in warm water - this speeds up the timing of their germination.

Root celery is grown only in seedlings. At the same time the planting time for such celery falls on February-March. To seedlings were heaped, and seedlings - strong and strong, the seeds first stratify.

The process is that you first put them in a wet gauze and keep at room temperature for 5 days, then for 10-12 days put them in the refrigerator and only after that you plant in the ground to a shallow depth.

After 7 days after planting celery seeds, the first shoots appear. When on the seedlings will appear on 1-2 of this leaflets, they are dived , pinching the main root by about a third. You can grow celery seedlings and without picking, but then the plants will turn out weaker and will not get better on the bed.

How to plant celery in the open ground?

When there are at least 5 real leaves on seedlings and its age is 60-70 days, it can be planted on a permanent growth site. Usually this happens in mid-May. It should be warm and dry weather on the street, and according to forecasts it should remain the same for another week.

When planting, observe the 30x20 cm pattern. When planting seedlings, its apical bud does not need to be sprinkled, and the depth of planting should be similar to the one that was in the greenhouse.

After planting celery, caring for it is quite simple. It consists in regular watering, loosening, weeding. Also, celery needs to be fed with mineral and organic fertilizers twice - in May and in July.

The peculiarity of growing celery celery is that for 2-4 weeks before harvesting its stems need to start bleaching. Due to this, the bitterness leaves bitterness and the quantity of odorous essential oils decreases.