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

Hi......

Judging from the responses to my last post,
I belive that readers cant be botherd,dont know,or my
question was not clear enough!

would someone know if cellery is an annual or not?

thank's all the same
Mathew

"tedius" wrote in message
...

Hi......

Judging from the responses to my last post,
I belive that readers cant be botherd,dont know,or my
question was not clear enough!

would someone know if cellery is an annual or not?

thank's all the same
Mathew


I'd say it's an annual as the plant goes to seed in the first season, if
allowed to grow it would be a little tough to eat, but that is only my
opinion. I have sown 2 rows of the seeds myself about 1 1/2 weeks ago, and
are just appearing.

"joe..bee" wrote in message
...

"tedius" wrote in message
...

Hi......

Judging from the responses to my last post,
I belive that readers cant be botherd,dont know,or my
question was not clear enough!

would someone know if cellery is an annual or not?

thank's all the same
Mathew


I'd say it's an annual as the plant goes to seed in the first season, if
allowed to grow it would be a little tough to eat, but that is only my
opinion. I have sown 2 rows of the seeds myself about 1 1/2 weeks ago, and
are just appearing.


Thank's joe.bee

I want the cellery seed to make cellery salt.The seed one get's here
commercially
is mostly from India and also quite old.Not much flavour.

tedius wrote:

would someone know if cellery is an annual or not?

treat as annual.
Would not be much good, except for flavouring cooking if left past
seeding as it would turn woody.

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

In article ,
"tedius" wrote:

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?

It probably needs a bit of heat stress to make it bolt. Have you had any hot
spells yet? Do you water it regularly? Maybe if you stop, it will bolt.

--
Chookie -- Sydney, Australia
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"Life is like a cigarette -- smoke it to the butt." -- Harvie Krumpet

"tedius" writes:
would someone know if cellery is an annual or not?

It is usually treated as an annual. But if you leave it in the ground,
and it doesn't bolt to seed, after a year it will have developed small
celery plants around the perimeter of its base. These can be carefully
broken off and planted out as new seedlings, provided you take them with
their roots. If you don't break the pups off, they will grow in situ
into mature plants and after two years what was a single plant will be a
circle of 5 or 6 plants, with the original one now gone. It may not have
actually seeded though, if memory serves me correctly.

On the other hand, if you plant out celery seedlings in mid-summer, you
will likely find that many bolt to seed without growing into a mature-
sized plant.

Mostly, people ask how to prevent their plants from going to seed!
--
John Savage (news address invalid; keep news replies in newsgroup)