Not too long ago after posting photos of our celery seedlings, a conversation was struck about growing celery.
A friend online told me of how I could grow celery from the stump of the discarded bottoms.
Intrigued by the amazing possibilities, I researched some links she gave me and last week started our own celery.
The photo to the left I took today. Its one week old and look at all that celery growing up.
I left my celery bottoms a little longer than others that are regrowing celery, and next I’ll be experimenting with shorter bottoms.
Half of the base is submerged in water, and when the celery has roots, you can plant it out in the garden.
How cool is that…right?!
Over this last week, the celery hasn’t been in direct sunlight, but instead just sat in the window.
I have two more packs of celery that I’ll be rooting also. If you’d like to try growing celery, I suggest you buy organic celery. Conventional grown celery has an insane amount of chemicals and pesticides in it.
Here are are a few more photos from the bottoms, and hopefully you’ll be able to see some of the new roots forming.
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Too cool! Celery is not my favorite veggie, but we’re growing some for the first time and might sell some at our new farmstand. Will definitely try this method!
Celery is indispensable in our house. All our homemade stock soups are made with celery as part of the ingredients.
I love celery and buy quite a lot so I’m definitely going to give it a try. This is pretty cool! Hopefully the celery won’t realize that it is growing in Canada in the middle of the winter
Hi Zhu,
Let us know how yours turned out. The biggest thing we learned about regrowing celery was to change the water every other day, because if the water goes cloudy or yellow, the celery will start to rot and die.
Thanks for the tip on changing the water!
This is so cool, we started today and I am hoping for the best (espcially in our lovely (!!) Michigan climate, which can’t decide whether it is mid winter or spring or something else!!!
no more buying of celery seedling for me .that is soooo……… cool