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

"a l l y" wrote in message
...
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

It's all here ally http://tinyurl.com/aay2ar What a good site. I wish
you well.

Regards,
Emrys Davies.

"Emrys Davies" wrote in message
...

It's all here ally http://tinyurl.com/aay2ar What a good site. I wish
you well.

Er . . . that takes me to Zone Alarm's site. I wasn't expecting to have to
protect my celery from viruses, but then again, you never know . . .

ally

In article ,
a l l y wrote:
"Emrys Davies" wrote in message
...

It's all here ally http://tinyurl.com/aay2ar What a good site. I wish
you well.

Er . . . that takes me to Zone Alarm's site. I wasn't expecting to have to
protect my celery from viruses, but then again, you never know . . .

Oh, you do, you know. It's one of the more susceptible plants to
the ubiquitous cucumber mosaic virus. And quite a few others can
affect it.

Whether a computer firewall will help is quite another matter.


Regards,
Nick Maclaren.