Friday, January 4, 2013

Celery Fail

Remember how I dug up some celery a few months ago in Celery As A Houseplant?  I enjoyed using the leaves for cooking but never got true stalks.  Boy those celery leaves tasted great in our Thanksgiving stuffing though.

Then one day I noticed that there were little white somethings all over the celery.  Eewww.  Then, I looked at the soil and there were little maggoty looking things crawling around!  Well, that was the end of that!  I didn't take time to identify what they were.   I grabbed that plant and rushed it right out to our below freezing garage.  Next stop - the compost heap.


When I dug the celery from the garden and it obviously had some "hitchhikers" come along in the soil.  It was a good experiment, but maybe next year I will really try growing celery as a houseplant in sterilized organic potting soil.  

If you're interested in growing celery, I used organic "Tango"seeds from Johnny's Seeds.





5 comments:

  1. Well at least you tried! Too bad it didn't work out for you. Maybe next time!

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  2. Thanks! I'll definitely try it again.

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  3. You may not want to put this in your compost. The middle of the heap is usually warm enough for insect and diseases to survive . They can reinfect your new garden.

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  4. Good point! I'm going to dump it on top of the pile and we're having well below freezing temperatures here so I think it'll be o.k.

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