I grow both cutting celery and regular celery, both of which produce crisp stalks. Rather than havesting regular celery all at once, I cut stalks when I need them. I especially like red celery because it looks so good in cold salads. I have never had a plant survive winter, however. Cutting celery is much more vigorous and cold hardy, but the stems are hollow and lack the sweet/salty taste notes of regular celery. Still, a great celery for cooking because it's always there. Every other year I allow a cutting celery plant to bloom and produce seeds, which leads to lots of volunteer plants around the garden. Quite a few come up in the fall, get nipped back by winter, and then start growing first thing in spring. These plants are ready to start cutting from in April, when new annual celery seedlings are just going into the ground. Here is a link that might be useful: cutting celery

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nygardener, I feel your frustration. It's the same every year: some things still hanging on, and other things seemingly still gaining strength, and meanwhile you'd like to start prepping things for next year. For example, I just pulled out five huge broccoli plants that looked like they wanted to grow forever, side shoots popping out all over the place. But this is the time when the leaves are raining down and the temperatures are still moderate, making this the best time to do the prep work, so I yanked them out, threw them in the hole I dug, and filled in the rest with leaves. I see it as a sacrifice that will pay off next year. However, I'm still giving my bell peppers the benefit of the doubt. They got a late start and are coming into their own now so I'll give them a little more time, ready to pull them out if the weather turns cold.

Do you mean Celeriac? Has a large bulb at ground level which you can eat as a vegetable or use the tops in soups and stocks. It's a nice herb, mine died and I haven't bothered replacing it. I do grow lovage which is going brilliantly this year, but too early for flowering and seed. island girl, if you can find a celeriac bulb in a shop there's nothing stopping you planting it. Otherwise Renaissance herbs have it in their range. Here is a link that might be useful: renaissance herbs webpage