Celery Processing Factory - 4th Celery Plant

Since the celery has been doing so well, we developed a bagging factory of sorts. We clean and dice the stalks. The veggie drawer in the fridge has a fresh baggie of celery. And that gives us a constant supply of fresh celery to mix in salads or whatever we want. We have only 2 more celery plants to harvest, then we will replant that section of the Suburban Garden. BTW, the lettuce, spinach, and kale have been harvested every single day for the last week or more and we have been blessed with salads galore. Yay for gardening!!

First Taste of Celery

Today was the day. The celery has become so beautiful and enormous in the Suburban Garden. Grabbed ahold and yanked it from the ground. Roots and soil are visible in the upper right corner of the photo. Also picked spinach, leaf lettuce and romaine lettuce and made an awesome salad. After months of TLC the moment arrived and we had the first taste of our first home grown celery. Let me be clear- this stuff had a strong taste, different than store celery. We made the salad with just the ingredients shown plus some avocado and dressing.
Now we have five more plants to harvest and they should all be ready within the next 10 days. So us Suburban Gardeners will be eating lots of celery.

Celery Growth Continues

Nature took good care of the garden while we were at the beach. The celery continues to grow and it has lots of stalks growing upright in the center like the store celery. Here is a close up photo. We are at the 3 and 1 half month point since we transplanted these guys. Pretty soon we can harvest the celery and start over again with another veggie.

Celery in the Garden

The celery is starting to gain size with our recent sunny weather. When we saw celery at the nusery, we had to have it. But then we read that it is hard to grow. It had a very slow growth at first, but we try to give it plenty of water, and right now it is looking happy. Hope it tastes yummy too!