The Secret to Growing Tasty Celery || Black Gumbo

Do you want to grow tasty celery? There is a secret to get that luscious, mild, crunchy white stalk. It's called blanching. Today I will show you how to blanch celery. It is the last step in growing celery in your garden. There are many ways to blanch celery, I'll show you how I use cardboard to bind up my celery plants and get them ready for a good harvest.


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[GinasBeautyReviews]

I never knew this about celery. I’m glad I learned something new for my garden. This makes me wonder what the commercial growers have to do to branch their celery.

[troyyarbrough]

I've never grown celery. I had no idea there were some steps involved other than growing and harvesting. Thanks for showing us this.

[Charlotte_TSilva]

I use brown corrugated cardboard for that purpose. I learned it from a Korean serviceman I was stationed with overseas. I’m happy to see more people use this method. Blessings to all.

[jackiebarner]

Trim just the leaves, wash them in just plain water. Put them on a cookie sheet., put them in your oven on low till you see them dehydrate. Put them in a bowl, and crush them up with your fingers. Great celery seasoning for salads and soups. !!

[Presnt-momnt]

Loved your trick of rolling up the cardboard. Last time I tried blanching my celery, slugs decimated all the plants inside the cardboard tubes. So now I don’t blanch and use my celery just for cooking.

[Sarahbee-ot]

I have so much celery. Mine is about 2 ft tall . The freeze didn’t even hurt them . I live in southeast Texas to

[GardenerScott]

Great tips, Scott. Pre-curling the cardboard is genius!

[debraroberts]

Thank you so much, I never knew that they needed to be blanched!! I wasn't going to plant them again but now I know that, I'll be adding them to my garden again!

[NewYorkJennifer]

Celery from seed is not difficult, it just takes time. I plant a few rows of celery in the flats when I start my onions in late January (zone 5). They stay tiny for a long time but really go to town when they get potted up and then transplanted to the garden.

[royamberg]

Looks good. Another 6weeks before I start plants in green house

[karenw]

When my dad retired he started puttering in Mom's garden (much to her consternation). One year he grew celery, but didn't know you're supposed to blanch it. Mom tried to use it in her cooking, she really did, but it just didn't work out. None of us knew what happened - was it our soil? the variety Dad planted? Now I know!

[GardeningwithBernie]

The celery looks really good, now I know what to do should I decide to grow it.

[mePatter]

I started my celery from using the cut off bottom of the bunch I bought, and putting it in water (it grows great that way) til the roots got developed a bit and the top was shooting out. I just planted it in a pot 2 days ago and I'm glad I found this channel! Now I know what to do. I never knew how they grew before. Thanks! :-)

[csimmons]

I will be adding celery to my Fall garden lineup every year from now on. I never knew we could grow it here (LA 8b) until I grew a few last year from grocery store bottoms and it was SO strong... I didn’t like it. Now that I know to blanch I’m excited to try it again, but this time I bought the Asian Pink Celery seeds from Baker Creek.

[cltinturkey]

Golly! Boy do I wish I'd known this the first time I tried to grow celery. Smart way to recycle and enjoy good food. Really useful lesson!

[GtJrGrowsItAlaska]

I have never seen the celery trick. Good germination on the peppers. I definitely will try this trick on the celery on my channel and give you your credit. Never saw celery done that way.
Thanks for sharing.

[dougmccoy]

I have celery in my garden now (Feb) that has survived all the freezing weather. West Oregon. Slugs and big snails are my biggest problem. Just put seeds into a plastic clamshell food container. Mulch and water and they grow well. I let a plant go to seed and saved the seed.

[alejandramichelli]

I grew celery winter sown method last year. Sprinkled seeds in, closed container and forgot about it. They came up wonderfully and I heard they don’t like root disturbance, mine didn’t mind the transfer from the milk jugs to the garden bed. Didn’t know about blanching! Will try this!

[sandy-rrby]

I plant the cut off ends from the store. One is growing back that was put in a flower pot last summer. Will try the cardboard this year.

[ritalr]

Last year I grew some celery and it was strong but most definitely a better taste. I didn't read enough to find out about blanching. Thanks for taking the time to enlighten us.