Anyone who wishes can grow in their indental section of celery. This garden culture is a source of vitamins, benefits, \\ both for female and male health. Cooks from all over the world use rootplood for the preparation of delicious soups, salads. Celery can be marrying and consuming in raw form. This vegetable is honored not only in culinary, phytotherapists and cosmetologists have long used it for the treatment of many diseases and preparation of cosmetics. You can grow celery on your own in the country area.
Celery is an umbrella vegetable culture or herbaceous plant. About 20 species of this beneficial plant can be found in the world, but are very popular with only a few.
In Russia, it is customary to grow multiple celery. It brings fruit (roots) and good greens in the first year of cultivation. For the 2nd year of celery will give lush flowering and fruits with seeds.
Types of celery
As mentioned earlier, Celery species in nature there are many, but we will consider only popular, which are easily growing and are eaten.
When growing celery leaf, we get juicy leaves with bright green color. They can be cut throughout the summer. This is an excellent source of vitamins and minerals, which is often used to prepare dietary dishes.
Cell celery grown small farms supplying fresh greens to the markets of large cities. He has juicy large stuffs.
Another kind of garden crop - root celery. When ripening from the plant, roots are obtained. If the season succeeds, then from 1 plants can be collected up to 1 kg of harvest.
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Each variety of vegetable is distinguished not only to the taste, but also the application area. In its garden plot, you can grow several grades of celery.
When choosing a variety of useful garden culture, it is important to take into account the speed of ripening. If you get celery in seeds, all information is provided on the package. If time is enough and there is a desire to grow several types of celery at the same time, you can choose different varieties - from early to late.
Growing leaf celery
Regardless of the variety of plants, this garden culture loves calm places, grows on fertile, illuminated by the soil. A good crop to collect quite really even on the weakness of the soil and if you put celery in a half. In this case, you can purchase an additional bonus in the form of fragrant leaves.
Celery leaf grade is resistant to cold, so calmly takes the spring frosts and can even be overwhelmed in the soil (only an adult plant!). When landing, at the beginning of development, celery will grow slowly and may seem that he "sits" in one place. It is not scary, since the seeds of this garden culture are very very small and 100% of the gentleness may not be. It is because of this, experienced gardeners prefer to grow this spicy crop.
How to prepare seeds
Celery cultivation from seeds is troublesome, but in the future you can get a good harvest. To improve the germination of small seeds of celery, they need to be properly prepared. Excellent results gives a weak barely pink solution of manganese. Seeds are poured with pink water and leave for 2-3 hours. After soaking, they are laid out on a folded in several layers of marla (pre-dipped in water) and leave for 3-5 days. During this time, the seeds will turn around, and it will be possible to begin to the next, no less responsible stage.
How to sow celery seeds
After preparing seeds, they are planted into the soil. Proper soil consists of a mixture of sand, earth with an admixture of leaves, peat and humus. Each component must be taken in equal proportions.
Sowing seeds of leaf celery is carried out at the beginning of spring in specially prepared boxes for seedlings (it is better to use wooden).
Seeds are laying almost on the surface, and top with peat. To improve the geogide boxes with seeds are covered with polyethylene film or transparent glass. During the week, seeds are not expected. At this optimal time before germination, you need to withstand a certain temperature - it is important for the plant that it is not cold and not too hot in the room - from 17 to 20 oWith with the "+" mark. When the first shoots appear, the room temperature should be reduced to +15 oWITH.
When growing seedlings, it is necessary to control the duration of the daylight. Since in March it will not be possible to do this, then it is necessary to take care of artificial coverage of seedlings in advance. It is also necessary to monitor watering - it must be moderate and only through the siter. If you comply with all the recommendations, you will have to grow a strong seedlings that calmly takes the landing in an open ground.
If something is not respected, then with the cultivation of seedlings celery, greens can grow more actively. Do not miss the moment when celery will release the first first leishes - they need to dive and perform the root sequel. This will contribute to the proper development of the root system.
You can transfer seedlings to the ground in late April or in May. Landing leaf celery is carried out at a distance of 20 cm from each other with mulching sawdust or straw.
According to the rules of seedlings, it is necessary to wait for the plant to reach 5 cm. In practice, this rule is not respected, because you will have to wait a lot, so small celery sprouts are planted into the soil. In the future, when leaving the seedle, it is important not to rolling and do not wash off the rapid plants. Therefore, in order to avoid the loss of the crop, it is recommended to wear a plastic cup on just planted seedlings (bottom cut). After a few days or immediately after planting seedlings, the plant can be filled with a liquid fertilizer suitable for soil.
Care for celery
Experts argue that when growing celery and care for it, it is important to plant seedlings into the ground almost on the surface. Plant care does not take a lot of time and effort.
What is important to perform:
- Weedly ride weeds.
- Systematically water.
- Ruff the land so that the firm crust is not formed around the plant.
- Mulching soil is allowed.
- Water
- Ruff the Earth after watering.
If you adhere to these recommendations, then in the middle of the summer, you can collect the first harvest of leaf celery.
Growing Cherry Celery
Cell celery - a two-year-old plant, reaching a height of 30 cm. Common grade Celery has white large stems, there are varieties with a coloring stem in red, pink and bright green color. This type of celery is widely used for cooking in fried, stewed or raw.
It grows well at a temperature not higher than 20 oC, easily tolerate freezing. Stems with red color - frost resistant.
It is possible to grow stem celery from seeds in the same way as leaf. There are no fundamental differences.
But when disembarking rapid seedlings to the ground, it is necessary to comply with such rules:
- The seedlings into the ground in the grooves, depth of 10 cm.
- The top kidney does not need to sprinkle the earth.
- Perching to fulfill only after the start of active growth, when the cutters become thicker.
- For the whole season of cultivation, it is possible to make a dip several times, which will allow freeing stuffing from a light mustard and get a more tender taste.
Interesting method of growing cherry celery - bleaching. It can be strengthened if 2 weeks before harvesting to bind the cutters and wrap the dark paper. This method is acceptable only for plants that have reached 45 cm. When papers, it is necessary to leave the tops of the plant on the light (15 cm). Such insulation of the plant from light will help when harvesting is absolutely white and juicy stiffs.
You can collect the harvest already in the middle of the summer, if the petioles are growing a little. Young celery bushes do not dig up, but block the sidecroes. Massly remove the harvest in the fall. Ridden celery digging the shovel, the bold bushes are better to remove fork.
Care rules
Standard care for cereal celery is not significantly different. It is important to comply with certain rules:
- Try to constantly watered cherry celery. Focus on the weather: if it was raining, then watering needs to be skipped. How to do, you will show the soil under mulch.
- The soil should remain wet, but the water is not allowed, so take care of a good drainage in advance.
- The fertilizer on the advice of agrotechnikov must be carried out 3 times a month. It is cherry celery with graceful to feeding. Remember the golden rule - in everything you need to observe the measure. Therefore, instead of frequent feeding with liquid fertilizers, watering the soil is better to influence nettle.
- It is necessary to impair all the grades of celery, except for self-lifting.
Storage of cherry celery
Save fresh greens hardly, here are some useful recommendations:
- the greenery faded quickly, so after cutting it, it is necessary to rinse it well under the jet of water, wait for it when it dries and wrap in foil. Package send to the fridge. For 10 days, the greens will remain fresh;
- you can dry the celery so: put crushed celery on the clean surface (sheet of paper), cover it with the same sheet. A month later, the spice will be ready. It is necessary to store it in a paper package;
- celery can be frozen - grind in a blender, pour into a small amount of water, decompose according to the molds for ice and send to the freezing chamber;
- grinding celery can be stored in the freezer in tightly closed plastic containers.
How to grow root celery
This plant variety has a long time of vegetation, so it is grown only by sedale. The main condition for growing celery - planting culture is carried out a month earlier. It turns out that the seeds need to be prepared in advance and fall in early February. It follows from this that in this dark winter month it is necessary to maintain a certain temperature in the room and provide a light day for at least 8 hours.
When growing root celery, consider such a nuance: when the plant will gain growth, the leaves are allowed to collect, but only the minimum number and almost at the end of the season. Otherwise, all useful substances will go into the leaves, and we need rooted roots.
How to care
Caring for this type of culture is not particularly different from standard care: it is necessary to systematically loose land, watering celery, mulch, remove weeds.
With mass cultivation of root celery in the fields, agricultural equipment dip the fruits during the actual growth period. But experienced gardeners argue that it can be destructive for root. On the contrary, from the top of the celery you need to remove the soil.
Prepare to collect harvest. Even 20 days before the start of the collection, it is necessary to restress the lateral leaves from the plants and remove the soil from the top of the celery. When the time is suitable, and this is approximately mid-October, you can proceed to harvest.
How to store rootfields
To save the resulting harvest, you need to cut the leaves and leave the cutters. If you plan to use root in the food in the near future, they are enough to wrap and put them in the refrigerator. For long storage, it is better to send celery to the basement, fold into the wooden boxes and pour the sand layer (2 cm). The room temperature is not higher than +1 oWITH.
You can prepare celery in the future: grate and folded into the packages. Stored in the freezer root cornestode will be a whole year.
Fighting diseases and pests
Growing any celery variety can affect all your efforts if the plant attack diseases and pests. This is especially dangerous during active growth and ripening. Stop bacterial spottedness, rot, etc. Diseases can be adhered to the rules of growing plants. In the fight against pests and diseases, timely irrigation will help, preventing the mooring of the soil and the thickening of seedlings, weeding.
Get rid of such pests as snails, slugs, flies by spraying plants. In addition, it is possible to avoid the death and loss of the crop in a simple way: celery disembodies inverse to vegetables or herbaceous plants.
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