You mean you rooted the whole thing with the stalks?
yes remove the stalks....but don't expect to grow another stalk of celery, but the leaves are nice for flavoring.

Can you snap a pic? If not I'll snap one of mine...I'm planting it out today.

Linda, she is referring to a thread you obviously never saw...it had pictures.

I tried it a few years ago. I got impatient so didn't bother trying to plant it or anything.

Circled is the bigger pic close-up. Planted now, early spring, it grows all summer up until thanksgiving. A little over 2 ft tall and wide. Harvest outer stalks and leaves. Grows like parsley but I like the flavor better.

Hahahhaa, SLEEVE! Good eye, and stupid comment on my part! It WAS romaine! Geesh, slapping my head.

Thanks, I will transplant the celery into a small clay pot today. I want to get it started so that my son can grow it in his Los Angeles garden next time we see him. He and DIL love organic everything and he loves to garden. He says with the Coronavirus19, they are not getting to the store often and are relying on the garden for lots of their food. I thought your celery planting suggestion would be good for them too.

LOL jasdip.

Here is one I potted up. Not planted yet. Good thing because my FrenchTarragon is coming up in that deck pot. (Yay! It survived our mild winter.)

Well, I did not have any small pots, so it is a 6 inch pot. Ought to do well. I put the pot up on a little table on the patio to keep it from our profuse crop of rabbits.

I got some sort of stalks a few years ago. They had a much stronger taste than the grocery store celery I started it from, but that was great for soups, stews etc.

Some others you can start from the cuttings, romaine lettuce, scallions, leeks.....I've head carrots and beets, but haven't tried them, so don't know.

Great ideas! I love celery and scallions, leeks, etc. sound good, too.

At least for these leeks, there is no need for TP!

*facepalm*

(lol)

I don't normally bother with leeks, scallions, lettuce, etc. In normal times I just put those on my grocery list. A few years ago I did it to see if it was really worth it. Not really, but fun to try once. Celery on the other hand is worth it.

19 days ago, 11 now DH, I decided no store shopping at all. Secured a delivery date 10 days away (all I could get) so all would be fine. Full freezer and with Misfits coming...all good. (no delivery time-slots for the month of April) ...took 3 days for an e-mail response. We were allowed to add up until the night before delivery so we really stocked up. All week the total went up and down. Out of stock. Our order was around 800, delivery amount was around 130. Thankfully 2 dozen eggs.

I was thankful I had started rooting everything since I knew what to expect. Scallions will get you about 6-8 inches like chives, my leeks about a foot but the size of a finger. Thankful to have it for a soup. We were down to one egg, one carrot, two potatoes, etc. Garden growing soon and still lots of freezer veg...we will be fine me said.

Then a wholesale vendor delivery service for restaurants opened for home delivery. That was my one major 'panic' purchase. So thankful for that. Next day delivery.

I did just root my three celery from three different Misfits boxes last night. The middle one is the dark green variety and has giant leafy greens. (Misfits does not cut off the near foot of leafy tops like commercial packaging)... just to fit in their bags, !! Misfits is boxed straight from the farm and not in plastic bags. All loose in the box. The ice pack is eco friendly and says, "feed your plants with the thawed water or re-freeze to re-use for your coolers.

I'm probably repeating myself. But all root cuttings will have a % that don't make it. So I just do more for at least a couple successes.

My local farm fresh delivery service is still in action and have asked for donations to help with their added expenses. Next time I can purchase, I will.

You all inspired me and I put the stub-end of the celery in some water and already see green sticking out of the middle. So, with that apparent success, I stuck the stub-end - with roots- of a green onion in the pot of soil that is sitting on my kitchen counter.

I have some Bok Choy too. Do you think they would grow more if I put those stubs in the water as well?

probably

Now I am trying to root yet another celery plant. The end of this one seems to have more of the root area preserved. Since Sleevendog mentioned that some celery rooting projects fail, I figured I ought to develop a back up so that I can eventually gift my son with a bushy, healthy plant to stick in his garden.

Kate, just about anything with an intact end will reproduce. Not necessarily a clone of the mother, but a version of it. I run across a list every once in a while what varieties do best.

I mentioned, I think, that the last leek and spring onion bunch garnished a soup. I was happy to have it.

If a tip of a tomato plant breaks off, or when pinching off suckers, they can be rooted, or placed in a damp small pot and kept in the shade. That will be an exact clone of the mother plant. Grows fast since not started from seed. That is usually a 50% success rate.

Here is the three from above 9 days later. I think they are doing so well because I have nothing better to do. I'm rinsing in the sink more often. I'll start peeling off some of the outer blunt stalks tomorrow. Fit in a leek and the green onions I just got.

I have lovage in the landlord's garden with their permission. It's a perennial, that grows very tall. The leaves taste like celery.......a bit stronger, and the stems are hollow so are good to simmer in tomato sauces, etc.

I love it, and use it a lot, minced in salads, potato salad, in scrambled eggs.....really anywhere I'd use parsley or other such herb.

Nice, Jas! I had some of that seed to grow, but it disappeared somehow. I was tickled by the idea of using stems as straws for bloody marys, etc.

I think next year I'm going to try to find lovage to plant in the herb garden. I'm completely envious Jasdip! And of course, since Mercurygirl mentioned using the stems as straws for bloody mary's I'm thoroughly intruiged!

Sleevendog, better late than never...

I got started a little later than y'all. I had a small bunch that has grown very well. I have a larger one to use up and will try that too. Edit: I decided to go ahead and just stick it in the ground.

Oh, yours looks very green and happy! I've got a third to start tomorrow, and my pot is ready for the first to be planted. It was pretty much all I could do to keep from cutting the larger one up for greens tonight : )

Yup, that one DID look happy, but not now. I think I jumped the gun and it really hadn't rooted any, so it hasn't grown at all since planting outside. Do they need to root first, or could it be the soil not warm enough? I had started another celery and this one rooted nicely, I just put it in a pot in the greenhouse.

This is June 1st. pic. It is huge now and harvesting. Went in my lobster roll salad. And my favorite covid cocktail...VirginMary...so veggie and horseradish wostershire, etc....4pm veggie time. Not fond of alcohol much. Except scotch. Holidays.

So happy my tarragon came back.

It is a dance knowing what will 'take' and root. What we, those of us that root cuttings...it is a 40-60% success rate. More experience gets 80%.

I keep throwing out my celery base, I always forget about this thread.

I also can't keep up with my lovage!

I'm thinking you have enough lovage to last a millennium! I've started 4 celery plants, but it's too humid and hot here, and all have eventually wilted and died. Kinda busy to move the pot around : )

I actually remembered to put my celery in water and hope for the best, and thought of this thread.

I think it'll be too late to plant it in dirt but it will be interesting to see if it amounts to anything at all. Reading upthread, I should pull off all the outer bulky stalks.

Nice. And yes, take it out of your water bath and rinse under your sink cold water faucet. Fresh water every day or when you think of it...three days is ok but the water gets funky. Half your amount of water is best. Just the very bottom needs water. Every time I change the water I give the root a nice rinse.

I just started another yesterday as well as a fennel bulb end. Plenty of time. Not affected by early Fall frost. One of my early celery plants is about 4 feet tall and went to seed. Pretty plant in my herb bed.

Take the big outer stalks off. Then next week a few more. Leave just a few when planting unless they are rotty soft. The plant really has no use for them.

I'll post a pick of the fennel if it does well.

I should try growing celery. I use the leaves as a substitute for parsley when I don't have parsley in my yard - it is a winter crop here in Los Angeles.

I have chives growing all year, and I tried to grow green onions from seed, but they never sprouted.

Thanks Sleeve, I do rinse and change the water daily. After I posted, I removed the large outer stalks, and I see roots growing. I didn't think I had that much water, I try not to have too much.