Comments on: How to Grow Celery

By: Armin

Armin — Sun, 26 Dec 2010 23:33:18 +0000

I have just grown my first lot of celery. However they have now gone to seed and they only ever developed one central stalk with several thin “branches”. It has never developed the typical crescent shaped celery stalks I was expecting.

Can someone tell me what might have gone wrong? Is it the variety?

By: Sue

Sue — Fri, 18 Jun 2010 02:10:01 +0000

I was shocked to read that celery is greatly affected by frost. Last year I started a small garden in a 6′ X 8′ box. Towards the end of the summer I had bought a celery plant, on clearance from a local greenhouse. I planted it in the center of the garden and nothing much happened with it except that it got real leafy, not much height, so I never harvested anything. I had never grown celery before so I just left it in my garden where it literally stayed green all winter long! We had tempatures as low as 30 degrees below zero this past winter and lots of snow and all winter I could see some green (crunchy-looking) leaves in the middle of my box. I didn’t really think that the plant was still alive, but lo and behold this past spring new shoots started popping up and now that plant is 3 feet tall and each night I snip off a few stalks to use in whatever I am making for dinner. I haven’t done a thing to that plant and it is doing great. Although now it looks like it is going to start to flower and I don’t know what that will mean for my future harvesting expectations.

By: David C Liebergen

David C Liebergen — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 17:31:48 +0000

i planted the celery heart after removing all the stalks from a bunch of celery i bought at the market. we grew four plants that way, just barely in the ground. they all rooted and grew new stalks. next year i will try quartering a celery heart and see if i can get four plants from one. i live in janesville, wi. so i’ll start them inside in late winter.
give it a try, so easy to grow celery that way.
dcl

By: Karla

Karla — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 00:13:02 +0000

Last year, my neighbor gave me 4 celery plants since she ran out of room to plant more for herself. I had absolutely no more room to plant any more plants so I decided to try planting these four plants in containers. I have never tried planting celery before and I thought, what the heck, if they didn’t grow, then the leaves on them would pretty green and go nicely wih my other container veggies (ie. patio tomatoes and pepper plants). As little research that I did to educate myself on growing celery, I was surprised that my celery turned out as good as it did.

This year, I planted celery again. I decided at the last minute to grow it when I found plants for sale at my local Giant Eagle store here in Pittsburgh. I paid $3 for a pot of 4 starter plants that were about 5 inches high. Again, I planted them in my huge flower containers. This year, the weather is way cooler and wetter than it was last year. I have noticed the difference in how much more healthier my plants look with all of the rain we have been getting. My celery looks fabulous! The taste of it is so fresh, and moist. I have never tasted celery that was this good from any grocery store.

I came upon this site while doing some research on another vegetable plant. I was shocked at all “the care” they are saying you must give to celery plants. To tell you the truth, My celery is doing wonderful just the way I am growing it. I love cutting stalks as I need them for dinner. It tastes so good and fresh in salads. And all I do with my celery is plant it, water it and keep it in a spot on my back patio where my plant gets a good 6 hours of sun a day. I don’t fertilize, with the exception of one treatment of miracle grow shake and feed about a month after my plants have been put into the containers. There are times I have forgotten to water my plants but they get plenty of water from all the rain we have been getting. To me, I honestly think that celery is the simplest plant to grow. I have had no problems with bugs or slugs eatting away at my plants either.

However, I admit, I have never tried growing celery from seeds. I am better at growing from plants. I have never had any luck growing my veggies from seeds, no matter what kind of veggie it is. So all of my plants, I purchase as starters.

After reading the posts here, and for those of you wo are curious about trying to grow celery,I say go ahead! What have you got to loose? and enjoy the nice fresh taste of your crop once the stalks reach about a foot tall! Have any questions? Feel free to email me at
Happy planting!!

By: david

david — Thu, 21 May 2009 15:35:37 +0000

instead of earthing the soil up around the plants, which can harbour pests , try placing a piece of 5 inch diameter and 12 inch long drainpipe over the plants . this will keep the stalks clean and some pests at bay . it is also easier to weed , feed and water around the base of the plants this way .

By: Stacy

Stacy — Sun, 12 Apr 2009 17:49:45 +0000

I also have not grown celery and am gathering tips for that purpose. I have heard somewhere in Israel, they are growing celery start to finish in buckets of sand/soil mixture. I would love to find more information about this.

By: Dinorah

Dinorah — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 01:08:21 +0000

Unfortunately, I do not have a tip on growing celery, I am looking for them, though. I have appreciated everything I have just read on growing celery in this site. My problem is growing celery in a tropical country, where there is too much sun and hot temperatures, most of the year round.
Once, I had the chance to meet a celery grower, a Japanese descendent, in Brazil, but he did not open his mouth and keeps the secret.
I and my husband grow organic veges and celery is our goal.
We will be grateful for a help.