Advice on Planting Celery in Self Watering Containers

Learned my first lesson about planting celery during my first harvest. It's definitely best to plant a celery plant per container.

The other thing that I learned about celery is that harvesting it is a challenge. At least harvesting it out of the container was.

In this video, I wrestle with the celery to get out of the container.

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[satinhooks]

you should only cut off what you need and let the plant keep growing. doing this also saves room in the fridge.

[CanarsieBK]

@satinhooks Thanks for the tip.

[iggyboy60]

piss funny comment,crabtrap! I agree they are poor celery plants,but with plenty more water and a little feed he would have made a success of those plants.

[CanarsieBK]

@iggyboy60 Potentially. There were crammed in there pretty tight.

[bscrill]

hey i don't know what kind of soil you use but you should consider utilizing coconut fibres as a growing medium, after you culture it with microbes (soil bacteria and fungi) and just use organic liquid fertilizer to maintain nutrient density within the coco fibre medium. your yields will increase in direct proportion to the massive root system that develops in such an environment and therefore use less growing space for maximum output :)

[CanarsieBK]

@bscrill Thanks some of the soil used was made from coconut coir and compost.

[Helenelalala]

@crabtrap Thank you so much for all these data and for the data on how to grow parsley. You've been very helpful! Have a wonderful day :))

[crabtrap]

@Helenelalala usually the plastic just holds in the moisture to keep the seeds/sprouts moist till they establish.use clear plastic to allow light, once the baby leaves giveway to the mature leaves,remove plastic and water as normal

[crabtrap]

@Helenelalala make sure to use a large 5gal bucket if you get them to sprout(20litre bucket).the roots need alot of surface area to get that water in these stalks

[Helenelalala]

@crabtrap Do you know how to grow parsley indoors? I've heard that one needs to put plastic on top of a pot with a few shots of parsley in it. Is this true for you? I have the pot in the kitchen with a temp. of about 72 Fahrenheit, poor sun light but by the window. When should I take the plastic out? Why is the plastic needed? I have a white plastic, should I get it black instead?

[Helenelalala]

@crabtrap Thanks, I will get my seeds then. I still will do my experiments to see how it goes.. Who knows... Maybe they could decide to grow anyway...

[crabtrap]

@Helenelalala it wont grow like that. The root system on celery is very tiny fiberous roots,you cant just use a store bought stock and transplant it,the roots are not long enough to support the stalk with nutients. I also dont think that would be enough light. Try growing from seed,that has a vastly better chance of working. You can order seeds online. Hope that helped:-)

[Helenelalala]

@crabtrap Do you know how to grow celeri indoors? I have a stalk of celeri which I'm attempting to get it to grow more and feed me indoors! I'm in november in Denmark, I have my stalk of celeri and fennel in a respective pot, right in front of a window - day light stops at 3pm now for another 2 months or so - I have put a lamp light about a foot above my plants, and trying to get them growing... Any advice to make it succesful?