VEGETABLE SEEDS Aubergines Beans - French Beans - Runner Beetroot Broad Beans Broccoli & Rapini Brussels Sprouts Cabbage Cauliflower Carrots Celery, & Celeriac Chilli Peppers Courgettes & Summer Squash Cucumbers, Gherkins & suchlike things Fennel Flowers Grains Herbs Kale Kohl Rabi Leaf Greens for Cooking Leeks Lettuces Melons & Watermelons Mustard Greens ( for cooking) Onions - spring sowing Onions - overwintering Onions - special types Oriental Greens for cooking & salads Parsnips Peas Pumpkins & Winter Squash Radishes (salad, & cooking types) Root Parsley Salad Vegetables Sweet Corn Swedes Sweet Peppers Tomatoes : Bush Types Tomatoes : Vines - Cherries Tomatoes : Vines - Larger Tomatoes : New Centiflor types Tomatilloes & Groundcherries Turnips Unusual Tubers: Oca & Yacon

~ CELERY Seed and CELERIAC Seed~

When to sow celery? You need start it going early, under cover, and keep the seeds
warm until they germinate - for example in a propagator or in your airing cupboard.

Please note - celery and celeriac seed needs LIGHT to germinate well, so sow on the surface of the compost,
just pressing the seeds in lightly. Keep the seeds moist until germination.

'Full White' Self-blanching Celery
A nice white celery. The upright plants are vigorous, and grow on well, needing little or no earthing up to give a nicely blanched & mild-tasting interior.

We are always very busy in the gardens, and so we like to grow crops that need the minimum of work to get a good result. So we were very pleased to find this self-blanching variety of celery which really is tender and mild without any attention at all.

The one Ben is holding in the picture was not earthed up at all, though we tied it loosely with a bit of hessian twine towards the end, and we think that it has come out really well for so little work! Some people like to pack straw around the plants to enhance the self-blanching effect further. Stands well, ready from October.

This variety is actually an Italian strain, but we have found that it does well in the UK.

White self-blanching var.

Order CeFW - roughly 600+ seed £1.78

'Reselected Giant Red' Celery
After many years we have found a really good and vigorous red celery to add to our collection. This is a new version of the traditional Giant Red type, bred specially for home gardeners.

This deep red celery was bred from several traditional European red and pink varieties by Frank Morton. He let the best plants cross and selected for reddest colour , big size, cold resistance, and best flavour.

It's fabulous, with dark pink-red stems that withstand cold conditions very well. As with the Full White, ideally you should tie up with twine and pack straw around the plants to get the best tight heads for eating raw.

Deep red stems, big plants

Order CeRR - 400 seed £1.82

'Amsterdam Cutting' Celery

It is an easily grown and very useful garden herb, as you can just cut a few leaves when cooking.
This is a special Dutch strain chosen for dark leaves and a particularly rich flavour.

Order CeAC - lots and lots of seed, (at least 400) SPECIAL PRICE £0.99

'Giant Prague' Celeriac

This is the well-known heirloom variety from Prague in what is now the Czech Republic, which has been grown for years in the UK with good results. We have a strain of seed that has been reselected in modern times for root balls that are a bit smoother.

To get the best results from celeriac, water in dry periods and pull away the lower ageing leaves as the plant matures. A weekly liquid feed with homemade comfrey 'tea' or liquid manure will also help get really good sized roots - though we rarely bother to do this and still get plenty of celeriac to eat!

Selected for smoother and rounder roots, so they are easier to wash and require less trimming.

Order CeGP - lots and lots of seed, (definitely hundreds, maybe thousands?) £1.75