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Grow your own organic Celery, a plant from the Apium graveolens family. A popular salad vegetable with its crisp sweet stalks but equally delicious braised or chopped in casseroles. The older traditional types do require some hard work with trenching up but the modern self blanching varieties are much easier. Celery does need regular watering during its growth to obtain good size and flavour. Sow the fine seed from February to April thinly in pots or trays under glass at 18°C. Sow the seeds on the top of moist seed sowing compost and lightly cover to their own depth. As soon as seedlings are large enough to handle, prick off into trays 5cm (2") apart. When seedlings are 6-7cm (2-3") tall, gradually harden off before planting out 20cm (9") apart once all risk of frost has passed. Water well throughout the growing season.
