New Celery from Old

     I read that you could take the end of a bunch of celery and start a new one with it. I get so many end pieces of celery from both work and home. I decided to try it. You only need to have about an inch or an inch and a half of the end of celery where the roots had originally been. When you buy celery, the roots have been cut off, but when you slice a very thin piece off that end and stick it in some moist potting soil, it will root and begin to grow more celery.

A pot with my celery ends getting rooted.

Look at the new growth in the short piece.

This is what the end piece looks like when the white

roots begin to grow.

This one had hardly any root growth, but it was starting

a new growth in the center.

     Another thing I like to grow is called Cutting Celery. It's often found with herbs. It looks just like flat leaf parsley, but it tastes and smells like celery and works great whenever you need that celery flavor, but not the crunchy pieces. I dry it out and keep it in a jar in my kitchen for soup and casseroles.

Cutting Celery

     The cutting celery grows really well and is an easy plant to care for. Try some!