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Celery
How to sow celery: Sow seeds indoors 10-12 weeks before transplanting outdoors
Sun requirement for celery: Plant in Full Sun
The celery plant has long fibrous stalks that taper into leaves. The stalks and leaves can both be eaten. Celery seed is also used as a spice. Celery seed extracts are used in medicines.
A plant grows with warmth, not with days. A growing degree day is one day's worth of useful warmth: how many degrees the day's average temperature is above the lowest temperature the crop grows at. Add them up from planting and you know how far along the crop is, whatever the calendar says.
Say that lowest temperature is 10°C. A day averaging 17°C gives 7 growing degree days. A day averaging 8°C gives none, as it is too cold for the crop to grow. That is why the same lettuce takes about 50 days in a summer and 90 in an autumn: it needs the same total warmth either way.
For celery, the FAO EcoCrop database gives a lowest growing temperature of 4°C and a shortest growing cycle of 80 days at its best temperature, about 1400 growing degree days to a first harvest.
Where you've told us where your garden is, we use this and the weather there to predict when your celery will be ready to harvest. We don't use it for how long a plant lives or when it finishes: we go by what members have logged for that.
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A summary of nutritional data per 100g for Celery, fresh, raw.
| Energy | 63.0 kJ |
|---|---|
| Protein | 0.6 g |
| Fat, total | 0.1 g |
| Carbohydrate | 2.2 g |
| - Sugars | 1.2 g |
| Fibre | 1.4 g |
| Sodium | 98.0 mg |
If sown now, expect a first harvest in about 80 to 160 days.
From the growing cycle in the FAO EcoCrop database, which is the same wherever it is grown.
Data from the FAO EcoCrop database for Apium graveolens var. dulce L.
| Family / Taxonomy | Magnoliopsida Rosidae Apiales Umbelliferae |
|---|---|
| Killing temperature | growth: -1 °C, rest: -5 °C |
| Life form | herb |
| Life span | annual, biennial |
| Habit | erect, acaulescent (or rosette plants) |
| Optimal soil depth | medium (50-150 cm) |
| Optimal soil texture | medium, organic |
| Optimal soil fertility | high |
| Optimal soil drainage | well (dry spells) |
| Optimal soil salinity | low (<4 dS/m) |
| Photoperiod | long day (>14 hours) |
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