Growing celery is not at all difficult, but the benefits of it are simply enormous. It is a natural antioxidant, contains a lot of vitamins, is recommended for people with impaired metabolism and hypertension. So, let's find out how to plant the leaf celery with seeds.
Features of growing leaf celery
Surely you are aware that in addition to the leafy celery chereshkovy and root. However for salads the sheet variety is most often used. And to grow it, you need to buy good seeds in a specialized store, otherwise they can not give seedlings.
At the same time, choose ordinary varietal seeds, rather than hybrid seeds, which do not retain parental properties, because of what you will have to buy them every year.
How to sow and grow from seeds of leaf celery?
Cultivation of celery will not cause much trouble, since it is a rather undemanding crop. First, the seeds need to be treated with a solution of potassium permanganate, then soak in water at room temperature or put between two wet cloths for a couple of days.
Just before sowing, the seeds need to be dried a little, mixed with sand 1:10 - this will simplify the sowing, since the seeds are very small. Sand will help distribute them evenly over the entire area of the earth.
The soil mixture for cultivation of celery seedlings should consist of turf and humus in equal proportions with a small addition of sand. If the soil is acidic, it must be deoxidized, for example, with lime.
How to sow leaf celery: it is necessary to sow the seeds in rows with a distance of 5-10 cm, it is not necessary to sprinkle them abundantly, since much saped seeds will not give shoots.
Germination of seeds for a long time - about 3 weeks. And with the advent of 2 real leaflets, seedlings are dived into separate containers - cups, pots, plastic bottles, cut in half and other containers.
Transplantation and subsequent cultivation of leaf celery in the open ground is carried out, beginning with the age of seedlings 1,5-2 months. On the seedlings there should already be 5 well developed real leaves.