To my surprise the celery plants that I started from seed did beautifully in the garden this year and I dehydrated a bunch for winter soups. The flavor is so very much better than store bought celery. The texture is tougher so I like to use it in recipes more than I like eating it raw.
Quite often though, recipes call for fresh chopped celery. Celery almost tops the Dirty Dozen list for the most pesticide-ridden crop and organic celery is crazy expensive. Then I read a blog about a woman who started growing celery plants from the bottoms of old celery and I figured that since my celery already has a great root system, why don't I try repotting it and growing it indoors?
Yesterday I dug up four celery plants (I had to clean off a bunch of outer stalks as the frost had got to them) and planted it in a pretty pot.
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I think it makes a pretty nice looking "house plant." We'll see if it grows!
I have more celery plants in the garden. Give me a call if you would like to come and dig up a plant to pot (hurry though, the frost/snow may kill it pretty fast).
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ReplyDeleteI would like to come and dig up some celery at your place, but I live too far away! I'd be interested in seeing how it does, and maybe give it a try here! Keep us posted!
ReplyDeleteIt does make a pretty houseplant! Let us know how it does indoors! :)
ReplyDeleteI'll be interested to see how the celery looks a month from now!
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ReplyDeleteOn 11/23/20, I was about to discard the base of a head of celery. Instead I placed it in water to root, and planted it in a pot on 1/3. The leaves are a beautiful shade of green. I have no houseplant that consumes more water than this plant. Today (3/23/21) its going to be potted up to a larger pot.
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