growing celery from root end?

[Use Less]

I saw this mentioned elsewhere here, but decided not to hijack. Would someone explain how to do this? Will boughten celery cut off quite flat work?

[feather]

This is an ice cream pail with dirt in it, then cut off celery and cut off romaine lettuce growing in the house in the spring, until it gets warmer outside. A 1 inch to 2 inch tall stub to start it.



This is a measuring tape with celery after it was planted in the garden and grew all summer.

[midtnmama]

This will help you, I just posted it on the Garden as if your life depended on it:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZJuXpiEjdcc

[solargeek]

feather midtnmama
Oh that YouTube is excellent! I have some celery bottom so I can use and I just put my Romaine into a cup of water. But I've never been successful growing entire heads of lettuce from the bottoms that I cut off.
Will try again.

[feather]

solargeek, you will get leaves from the romaine but not a head of lettuce like you buy in the store. Plant it early in spring. Once the temperatures go into the 70's, they start to bolt and get bitter.

The celery plant is dozens of celery stalks, but these are not tied closed, so no 'head', or tight formation. Still they produce a lot of celery which are fresh and not bitter which is an improvement over some of the store bought. We eat it fresh or dehydrate it to grind later.

[LauraD]

My hubby is doing the same thing with the root ends of some scallions. They seem to be growing fine so far...

[Jolly]

Apr 3, 2020 12:53:58 GMT feather said:

This is an ice cream pail with dirt in it, then cut off celery and cut off romaine lettuce growing in the house in the spring, until it gets warmer outside. A 1 inch to 2 inch tall stub to start it.



This is a measuring tape with celery after it was planted in the garden and grew all summer.

Will this work as hot as it gets down here?

[feather]

Jolly, I don't know if it will work anywhere else. I've lived here pretty much my entire life. My personal belief and not something I've researched is that celery is not bitter unless it starts to dehydrate (gets old in the grocery store) but we've had it fresh in spring and late summer in the garden (with fairly warm temperatures for a few months) and it isn't bitter when it is fresh.

When I buy celery, I sniff it. If it smells sweet then it is pretty fresh. If it smells bitter then it's not fresh.

If you decide to grow it from stumps it's a low maintenance plant, so it goes in and then does all the work without needing pesticides/herbicides/weeding/fertilizer/critters. We just keep them watered and talk nicely to them.

[Deleted]

I put a 10" long piece of thin 4" PVC pipe around each celery plant as soon as they get as tall as the pipe. This bleaches the celery stalk and keeps them from getting "woody". I grow mostly leaf celery from seed, I just keep cutting off stalks individually, thinning them out near ground level when 3-4" tall. Plants just keep putting out more stalks. Same flavor for cooking, lot less work....James