'Victoria F1' Celery Plants

The crunchiest you can get

Grown by Josh

South Downs National Park

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The highlights

  • Cool, fresh flavour (plus rich in vitamins)
  • A superb self-blanching variety
  • Make a traditional Italian soffritto
  • Harvest from August to December

Description

  • One of the best flavoured, crunchiest celery varieties, packed with vitamins
  • Perfect for salads, sandwiches, soups and dipping; essential for stirring your Bloody Mary
  • Grow in allotments, raised beds, borders and even pots
  • If you plant your celery in grids rather than rows, they'll blanch themselves, giving you a better flavour
  • Plant out after the last frosts and harvest from July onwards. Make sure you've harvested it all by the first frosts
  • Premium celery plants grown on a family run farm in Lancashire and sent to you at the best possible time for planting
  • Growing your own gives you healthy, fresh produce with a lower carbon plantprint than anything you can buy from a shop, enabling you to cut fresh celery when you need it
  • F1 hybrids combine the best qualities of two top performing varieties to produce a plant with improved vigour and bigger crops
  • Easy to grow and care for - you should see your first crop within 20-24 weeks

What to expect

Supplied as

Strip of 10 Plants
Young plants ready to pot on before planting out

Eventual height

45cm

Eventual spread

25-30cm
Spreads approx 25-30cm

Tasting notes

Fresh, cool and crisp

Time to first crop

20-24 weeks
Cut the stalks when they've reached the size you prefer.

Habit

Clump forming
Grows as clumps of foliage with compact, upright bunches of stalks.

Hardiness

Hardy annual
H3 - hardy in coastal and relatively mild parts of the UK (-5 to 1). Plant out after the last frost.

Uses

Soups, salads, dips and braising

Spacing

30cm
Plant celery 30cm apart with another 30cm in between the rows.

How to grow

Good pest and disease resistance

Good pest and disease resistance

Some celery problems you may encounter are slugs and snails and celery leaf spot.If you see the telltale slimy trails, surround your plant with a barrier of copper wire, fine gravel or crushed eggshells, which they cannot cross. Plants should always be spaced well apart to allow air to circulate and prevent disease.

Water regularly

Water regularly

Keep the soil consistently moist to ensure rapid, even growth and strong stalks that donÂ’t split.

Full sun to partial shade

Full sun to partial shade

Celery needs around 6-8 hours of sunlight every day. Partial shade during the hottest parts of the day will help prevent the plant bolting.

Any fertile, well-draining soil

Any fertile, well-draining soil

Celery needs very fertile soil. If your soil is particularly clay-heavy and/or often becomes waterlogged then you can improve the drainage by adding in plenty of organic matter such as garden compost as well as some perlite or gravel.

Feed shortly after planting

Feed shortly after planting

After a couple of weeks, sprinkling a feed of chicken manure pellets (or other nitrogen rich feed) will help give the plants an additional nutrient boost. You can also add a layer of garden compost or manure to act as a mulch–, giving the soil more nutrients and helping to lock in moisture.

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South Downs National Park

Meet Josh

Slow grown veg from the sunny South Downs

Our vegetable plants are sown on a family farm in Lancashire, then nurtured into strong young plants by Josh in the sunny South Downs before they rock up in your garden. By selecting only the strongest and tastiest varieties, Josh makes sure you get a headstart on your plot, with impressive crops and no waste.

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We deliver to anywhere in Mainland UK for our standard delivery cost. We are able to deliver most plants to Highlands and non UK mainland however this will be at an additional cost. This will be calculated at the checkout. Please note, deliveries to these locations will take longer. Unfortunately, we are not able to deliver to Northern Ireland at present.

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