Celery – Pascal Giant

Description

120 Days | A good quality variety of celery, well adapted for home garden or commercial use. Tall, cylindrical and erect. matures late, and is one of the best for winter
use. Plants make vigorous, compact growth, stalks thick, broad and solid; blanches to an attractive yellowish white. Thick, broad stems 18″-24″, often grown in trenches for celery hearts. This is a good storing variety holding until late winter if stored properly. This heirloom was in our 1902 catalog, and has proven its worth, growing beautiful bunches from every seed.

2-3 Days to sprout

Celery seeds per packet: About 5,000

Celery seeds per Oz: About 70,000

Celery seeds per Lb: About 1,120,000

Plant 1/4″-1/2″ deep, in rows 24″-36″ apart, thinning to 9″-12″ apart once the seeds sprout.

Celery plants are usually set in the field about 7 inches apart in rows three or three and one-half feet apart. Frequent cultivation and irrigation is necessary, an abundance of fertilizer must be used unless the soil is exceptionally rich. As the plants approach maturity they must be blanched by hilling with earth or with boards or special blanching paper. Late celery should be trenched at the approach of freezing weather. Plants are taken up and set out compactly in a narrow trench, the bottom of which has been moistened just enough for the roots to keep the plants from wilting. Should the plants begin to wilt, water the roots without wetting the stalks or leaves. Keep temperature above freezing point and the stalks will gradually blanch. They may be used during the winter.