Leaf celery - growing from seeds, when planted?

We all know how useful celery is. And both root and leaf, equally actively used in the preparation of dietary dishes. Leaf varieties will especially appreciate those wishing to regulate digestion, and also to get rid of excess centimeters at the waist. Below we will consider growing leaf celery from seeds, when planting seeds on seedlings, and when to transfer seedlings to open ground.

Celery seedling planting on seedlings

First, we determine the choice of grade. As practice shows, it is easiest to work with varieties "Zakhar", "Cheerfulness", "Kartuli". All of them perfectly tolerate planting in open ground, yield a good harvest, and also do not cause much trouble. However, even for such types of leaf celery, planting and care must be consistent and fully comply with the recommendations:

  1. When you open a bag of seeds, you will find many very small seeds. Prepare planting material is mandatory. First we dilute the pink solution of potassium permanganate, soak the seeds in it, then we keep it for two more days in a damp cloth.
  2. From this preparation depends on the answer to the question, how many leaves of celery. Usually it is not less than two weeks, shoots will be amicable provided that the soil is properly prepared. Ideal is a mixture of equal parts of peat, sand, humus and garden soil. When growing leaf celery from seeds for many regions, the time to plant should be at the very beginning of March. It is important not to sprinkle seeds with soil, as they germinate only in the light. It's enough just to pour them and just squeeze them lightly.
  3. After disembarkation we cover all with polyethylene, it is possible to take and glass. We make sure that the temperature is about 25 ° C. As soon as the shoots appear, it should descend to 15 ° C.
  4. The time when it is necessary to dive the celery leaf, falls on the appearance of the first real leaf. The distance should be about 5 cm between seedlings. Now we should go to moderate watering.
  5. Approximately in early-mid-May, we move on to planting celery leaf into the open ground, and the care now consists of constant loosening, weeding, and the introduction of fertilizers.

To ensure that all efforts during the planting of leafy celery for seedlings are successful after transplanting into open ground, several rules must be observed. First, you can not choose places in the garden, where previously other vegetables were grown. We choose only warm weather for transplanting seedlings. If you plant it in the cold period, you will get a bloom, but not juicy greens.