Thread: Celery advice
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Old 20-02-2009, 11:40 PM posted to uk.rec.gardening
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Default Celery advice

Hello from a newbie in Cumbria! We live up on the NW coast overlooking the
Solway Firth. Wonderful place to live but we get a lot of high winds and
rain at times. Not as cold as inland Cumbria, though - we were the only bit
that got practically no snow during the latest episode of ahem!
Interesting Weather.

Anway. I love celery, but I also love the leaves, which I use as a herb.
Most shops cut the leaves off, which is incredibly irritating, so I'm
wondering how hard it is to grow it in our veg garden. We already grow
tatties, beans, peas, lettuce, leeks, onions and other straightforward sorts
of things. I'm not bothered about blanching the stems - in fact, I'd rather
have them green - but someone told me celery needs to be kept very wet and
might be hard to grow in a plot which can, at times, be soggy, but at other
times can be parched. Could it be grown in tubs?

TIA!

ally