Planting celery

Celery has a special place among green crops. This vegetable culture contains a large amount of vitamins, mineral salts, carotene, fatty and essential oils. This spicy vegetable is widely used in cooking, it belongs to aromatic plants, as it gives dishes a specific pleasant smell and significantly increases the taste of food.

Celery belongs to the family of umbellate plants; it is distinguished by leaf, root and petiole species. Excellent salads are prepared from the root vegetable of celery. Planting celery and growing it is possible even at home for forcing greens.

The leafy form of celery has fortified leaves, they are dried for the winter, added to salads, soups, meat, and other dishes to give them a special aroma and taste. In petiole celery, petioles and leaves are eaten, it is eaten raw, boiled.

Planting celery assumes knowledge of some of the features of growing this crop. This spicy vegetable has a long growing season, tolerates cold well (up to minus 3 degrees). This plant grows and develops better with long daylight hours.

After planting, the first shoots appear around the 15th day. Since celery has a long growing season, seedlings must be grown in greenhouses and greenhouses from February.

One of the main conditions for a good harvest is fertile moist soil, but celery does not tolerate acidic soils. The best for this culture are sandy loam, humus-rich soils, medium loamy. Celery is planted after potatoes and cabbage, in which case it will grow much better.