I have had the same experience ..My two remaining plants are from
spring 1992. I have been eating them all along and find that if you
can keep the water up to them they don't get too stringy. But the
warm weather( I think) has sent one to seed.. the other may go soon. I
have cut out the seeding stalks to see If I can force it back into
growth pattern. they stand about 1m high and are very thick. They are
growing in my garden on the great dividing range at about 1200m on the
western edge of the Dorrigo plateau on the mid north coast of NSW.
maybe it IS a bi annual...
veets




On Fri, 12 Nov 2004 06:54:15 +1000, "tedius"
wrote:

Hi all,

In one of my veg paches I left a 1/2 doz cellery plants standing.
I'm intending to let them go to seed.I want to make fresh
cellery salt to sprinkle on tomatoes.

The cellery plants have now been in there for 12 month
are very big, but no flowerbuds to see.
Is cellery bi annual?,does it need special condition to flower?

Any insight is appreciated

Mathew