Growing Celery From Seed: A Guide

A Full Guide & Tips On How To Grow Celery From Seed

Celery is a delicious and healthy vegetable with tons of benefits. Why don't you grow some stalks of this vegetable in your garden to have fresh and clean vegetables? Let’s see how to grow celery from seed and take care of your vegetable garden here. Then, your family will have a natural source of stalks and leaves for daily meals without chemicals. 

A Full Guide & Tips On How To Grow Celery From Seed

I. What's the best celery variety to grow?

There are some varieties of celery. Therefore, the first step is selecting the best greenery types to cultivate in your garden. See the best varieties to grow in your garden for seeds, leaves, and stalks.

• Best types for stalk and leaf: Pascal, Atlant, Utah, Crunch, and Triumph.
• Vegetable for seeds: wild celery. 

Home cooks and gardeners can choose suitable varieties of this crop based on their purposes. All parts of this vegetable are beneficial for health. 

II. How to grow celery from seed

You can gather seeds from wild and domesticated celery species or buy dried seeds from The Rike. This green is easy to grow outdoors in cool seasons. Firstly, let’s prepare the following things to start seeds indoors.

2.1. Preparation 

Soil and seeds are the two key things you have to prepare carefully. Let's see how to prepare the vegetable seeds and soil to germinate them indoors below.

1. Soak dried seeds in warm water overnight to make them germinate faster.
2. Prepare fertile and moist soil mix with pH levels of 5.8 – 6.8 for planting. 
3. Wear PPE gloves and a mask to protect your hands and respiratory tract.
4. Prepare a starting tray or pot. 
5. Prepare some clean sand to mix with celery seeds. 
6. Fill a plant sprayer with fresh water. 

This vegetable seed is very tiny. It is also sensitive to temperature and sunlight. Therefore, you need a room with a mild warmth. Prepare some dried straw to cover the germination tray if there is no room to sow the seed indoors in your house.  

2.2. Sowing

Then, start to sow when all equipment, seeds, and soil are ready. If you start seed indoors, skip the fourth step. 

1. Fill the seed starting tray or pot with soil and level the surface.
2. Take the seed out of the water, mix it with sand, and sprinkle the seed-sand mixture over the soil bed.
3. Don’t cover the soil over the seeds. Instead, you had better press seeds gently to make them in contact with the soil mix.
4. Cover the soil bed with dried straw to prevent sunlight and maintain moisture. 
5. Spray water gently over the seed to moisturize the soil bed.
6. Turn on the fluorescent light for 16 hours per day. Place the light 8cm above the soil surface. 
7. Maintain the temperature at 21 – 24ºC during daytime and 15 - 18°C at night. 

Make sure the temperature is stable for a high germination rate. Celery seed needs a lot of water. Therefore, you have to spray water regularly. This vegetable seed and seedling will die of drought. 

2.3. How long does celery take to grow from seeds?

This seed often sprouts after 21 days in standard condition. When the seedling is about 7-13cm tall, transplant them to the garden. Typical crops usually takes 100-140 days to be mature enough and ready for harvesting. 

2.4. Transplanting

You should avoid damaging the plant roots when transplanting celery seedlings. Transplant the vegetable in the early morning and late afternoon when the temperature is still low. Follow these steps to transplant them correctly.

1. Prepare an airy and fertile soil bed.
2. Create a 15-25cm deep hole in the soil bed. Keep a 2-feet space between two rows and a 12-inch distance between two holes. 
3. Plant the young plant in the hole and cover light soil over the hole.
4. Water thoroughly. 

Then, you need to take care of it until your greenery is mature. Frequent watering can be necessary during dry days. Learn how to take care of this green below. 

III. How to take care of celery

Celery is sensitive to environmental conditions. Take care of the young plant well to harvest nutritious greens for your dishes. Let’s see how to water, fertilize, and weed your garden.

3.1. Watering

Celery root is pretty shallow. Therefore, you should water this green gently. Besides, you also need to moisturize the soil frequently. The celery stalk will become woody and stringy if the soil is dry. Drought can also slow down the development of this plant.

Water the green once a week or more in the dry season. Don’t water this vegetable overhead. Besides, avoid flooding the vegetable bed after transplanting because you may sweep the seedlings away. 

3.2. Mulching & Fertilizing

Celery needs fertile soil to grow well. Feed your greens with compost tea or celery manure once every three weeks. In addition, fish emulsion is an excellent solution for this vegetable during its growth. Mix a tablespoon of this solution with half a tablespoon of kelp extract in 4 liters of water to feed this vegetable. 

3.3. Weeding & Inspection

Remove weeds once a week or twice a month. It helps focus nutrients in the soil for your vegetable. Furthermore, regular inspection helps your vegetable garden develop under your control. You can detect and treat diseases on time. 

IV. How to harvest celery 

You can pick this vegetable after four months after starting seeds or three months after transplanting. Here are some tips on collecting this vegetable for regeneration. 

• Use a small sharp knife to cut at the bottom of the mature stalks. Wear cotton gloves when cutting to avoid hurting your hands if needed. 
• Leave small inner stalks to grow. 
• You can cut the whole bunch of stalks. Then, the base will continue to regrow new stalks.
• Cut fresh mature stalk to cook and eat before it gets old and withered. 

Celery is a healthy vegetable. You can let some celery bunches produce flowers and seeds. This vegetable seed also packs tons of health benefits. 

V. Conclusion

Are you ready to sow your celery seeds? Buy some high-quality seeds of this vegetable from The Rike and practice what you have learned about how to grow celery from seeds in this article. Then, you will have an abundant garden of fresh vegetable for your daily meals. Start seeds of this vegetable now and prepare the soil bed for seedlings. Don’t forget to water and feed the plant and remedy ailments on time.