Celery From Saved Seeds

Above: the bottom middle green plant is actually the celery I regrew last winter, that I let go to Seed this summer, to collect the seeds!

I planted the Celery indoors, nurtured it, and let it grow.

For a few winters now, I have used celery from the store, to regrow from mere cut off bottoms. Once I use the celery for salads, for cooking, making stews, soups, and stocks, etc, I simply take the bottom of the stock, and place root side down, in some water. After a couple of weeks, the inside of the celery bunch begins to regrow more greens and eventually, stalks. After a bit, I transplanted the bunch from water to outside. Eventually, I had enough regrowing growing inside, that I decided to try an experiment. A little Seed Saving!

Above: Celery regrowing from the root, inside, rooted in water.
Below: After growing, and cutting only stalks I needed, I stopped. I let the Celery go to seed, meaning it went dormant, and produced seed. (white pods are clusters of young, immature seed)

Below: today, while cleaning up the herb planters, for winter, I harvested the seed pods of Celery.

Above: Teasing out, and winnowing away the pods, leaving only Celery Seeds.
Below: In the Bowl, the only bits left are hundreds of tiny Celery Seeds. A few dozen can safely fit on the head of a pin. TINY, TINY, TINY!

Celery is fairly easy to grow on a windowsill. There's no real NEED to save seed and grow it that way, but, I am beginning to learn the whole process. Growing, harvesting, saving seeds for next season, and planting again, to begin anew, each spring. I think for me, I am concerned enough with the odd happenings in the world, that I am planning and learning how to be more self sufficient, at my own harvest, at gardening and growing food.
And that makes me smile... better for the planet, better for my own family.

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