Giant Prague Celeriac, 1800's Heirloom
$3.75
$3.95
New for 2025 - Seed Saver Exchange - If you’ve not yet tried this versatile, hardy, and easy-to-grow root vegetable, you're missing out! 'Giant Prague’ delivers a light celery flavor matched with a slight peppery taste and the classic sweetness of many root vegetables. Edible raw or cooked, celeriac excels in soups and casseroles and can be stored for up to eight months in a cool, dry place. 110-120 days.
Mild, sweet celery flavor
Can be eaten raw or cooked
Excellent addition to soups and stews
Instructions - Sow seeds indoors 1/8" deep in warm, moist soil, 10-12 weeks before planting outdoors. Transplant outdoors spacing 6" apart in 30" rows. Note: celeriac will bolt early if exposed to cool temperatures (below 55°F).
Start indoors 10-12 weeks before the last frost
Germinate 14 days
Plant 24" apart
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Merlin Celery
$3.04
$3.29
Renee's Garden - Merlin is a wonderful European variety developed especially for home gardens. These early-producing, vigorous plants reliably yield tall 12-inch tender stalks. Enjoy Merlin right from the garden as an easy, cooling treat, and harvest the juicy stalks for fresh salads or crunchy sweet snacks. Add them to soups, stews, and many other dishes. Air dry the leaves to use in winter cooking. Celery is an excellent source of vitamin K as well as folate and potassium.
Characteristics:
Productive, vigorous plants
Great tasting, crunch-sweet thick stalks
Vitamin-rich
Instructions - Start celery in spring, when temperatures are above 50°F (10°C) day and night. Plant in full sun or, in hot summer areas, where there is afternoon shade. Celery is a heavy feeder; amend soil well with a high nitrogen fertilizer before planting. Sow seeds thinly, about 1-2 inches apart, and cover very lightly. Be patient and keep the seedbed evenly moist while awaiting germination which is slow and uneven. When seedlings are 3 inches tall, thin to 8 inches apart to grow to maturity. For growing success and optimum flavor and yield, growing celery plants must be kept consistently moist and well-fed. Check often and water regularly; a thick mulch of compost helps maintain moisture. Fertilize every few weeks with a high-nitrogen fertilizer or fish emulsion solution. Harvest outside stalks at maturity as needed or cut the whole plant.
Plant in: April-May for cold winters or March-May for mild winters
Full sun or partial shade
Sow Seeds: 1/4"
Days to germinate: 1-2" apart; cover thinly
Mature Height: 12"
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Pink Plume Celery, 1894 Heirloom, Organic
$3.75
$3.95
Seed Exchange - Introduced in 1894 by the Peter Henderson & Company seed house of New York, this beautiful purple celery quickly gained popularity, and by 1903 it was offered by over 100 seed houses across North America. Its compact plants offer an abundance of stalks and leaves, which have a dark-purple flush on inner stalks and leaf tips. The thin, solid stalks are sweet with an intense, almost fennel-like, flavor. Biennial, 80-90 days
Organic
Small, compact plants with an abundance of stalks and leaves
Dark purple blush of color on inner stalks and leaf tips
Thin, solid stalks are sweet with an intense fennel-like flavor
Biennial, 90-100 days to maturity
Instructions -
Celery needs light to germinate so sow seeds very shallowly. In cool climates, sow indoors, then moisten and cover with clear plastic. When celery leaves begin to emerge, remove the plastic cover and place the container in a sunny spot, always keeping the soil moist. When there are two true leaves, transplant outside when the soil has warmed and night temperatures have been above 40°. Sow seeds outdoors before 3-4 weeks of last frost or soil can be worked.
Sow indoors 10-12 weeks before the last frost
Germinates in 10-20 days
Plant Rows 8-10" apart
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Tall Utah Celery, Organic
$3.55
$3.95
Celery is an interesting crop. The taste is amazing when grown at home. It does take quite a bit of moisture to grow but with mulching it is pretty easy to do. Start early inside and once the frosts are gone, do get it planted outside. It is a longer crop taking 100 days for a full size head but can picked along the way for celery during summer. For those lucky enough with greenhouses or hoophouses you can have celery even sooner. Stalks are 12" tall and stringless, the dark green leaves are filled with flavor as well. We source this variety from a few different seed labels depending on availability.
It can be probably pretty easy to guess where celery comes from - if you say Utah, you are correct. It was developed in the 1920's at the Utah Ag Center.
Organic
Crisp stringless stalks
Refreshingly light flavor
Stalks grow to 12 inches
Plants are 24-30" tall
Biennial, 100 days
250 Seeds per packet
This variety will grow well in most regions of the United States but is a slow grower and needs a long season or an early start indoors.
Instructions - Celery needs light to germinate so sow seeds very shallowly. In cool climates, sow indoors, then moisten and cover with clear plastic. When celery leaves begin to emerge, remove the plastic cover and place the container in a sunny spot, always keeping the soil moist. When there are two true leaves, transplant outside when the soil has warmed and night temperatures have been above 40°.
Start Indoors: 10-12 weeks before the last frost
Germination: 10-20 Days
Plant Outdoors: 8-10” Apart
Light: Full Sun or Partial Shade
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Tango Celery, Organic
$3.50
A greatly improved variety that is early and easy to grow.
High Mowing Organic Seeds - Plants are vigorous with good flavor; excellent for shorter seasons and home gardens. Smooth, non-stringy stalks with a big celery crunch and beautiful apple green tops. The most forgiving of all our celery varieties.
Characteristics:
Organic, non-GMO, and open-pollinated
Self-blanching
18-20" tall
85 days
50 Seeds
Instructions:
Start indoors 10-12 weeks before the last frost
Germinate 14 days
Plant 6-10" apart
Space rows 24-36"
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