I grew celery from seeds and from store bought celery. The store bought celery was ready to harvest a lot quicker. I will continue to use both methods. I do not feel I have wasted my time. Different strokes for different folks.
From 10:13 to 13:40 he addresses the celery issue. He says that if instead of taking cuttings you let your plant go to seed and grow that way it is more natural, easier, and the plant will be more productive.
Yeah, right, and thus he completely ignores a huge group of people who DO NOT have a garden, and grow stuff in extremely limited places - balconies, terraces, even indoors.
If you have room to grow the celery from grocery cuttings you have the room to grow it from seed. Space isn't really a factor in that. Obviously if you are seriously limited and growing indoors then neither will do very well and just treat it as a novelty with the cutting in that case instead of wasting money on seeds. There are exceptions I find, eg. scallions / green onions as well as other bulbs. They grow faster than seeds. Or sometimes in a pack of baby leaf salad I actually got a baby plant complete with roots. I planted a few of those and got full sized plants later. Watercress is another.
To start out you could let the celery cutting grow and harvest the seed and from then on grow from seed. In the winter you could grow the cutting in water in the window if you do have room for a pot in your house,
this was my plan when i planted my celery cutting six months ago . I started harvesting the stalks eight weeks later. The plant is still growing new stalks
Mine is interestingly growing big and strong with only water annd... a short mint stem that i placed within the celery fold rooted in the celery and is growing leaves. I replace the water every other day.I I like the excitement of seeing new growth literally everyday. Little experience so im glad they are growing well. Im afraid if i add dirt they will start to get mold, bacteria, draw bugs, dry out and die. The usual for me.
@@tiarablount1602 replace the water every so often then, however you'd be suprised how well it will grow with some soil and nutrients lol im just now replanting my baby celery seedlings and cant wait to be harvesting fresh celery to eat with some PB! Mhmmm. Happy gardening to everyone! ✌👨🌾🌶
Thank you John! It was little green caterpillars and I squished them with my fingers. The lentils never came out to amount to anything. I will try the seeds you recommend. The celery is still growing. I ended up staying home and had my juice. I juice fasted for 30 days. Thanks again everyone for your comments.
I bought celery that was whole from the store. Sometimes they just have the stalks. I cut the base from the stocks and just put the base or where the roots use to be in some pots and the grew a whole other plant. I cut the stocks off the new plants as I needed them but by June they got a little tough to chew. I thought it was easier then seed to tell you the truth.
I buried some kitchen scraps. Celery came out of the ground. I ate some. Then it flowered. The seeds dropped. More celery grew. Now I have free celery every year.
Hmm. Cuttings and seeds from a grocery store, and if you replant a cut celery, it will also flower and give seed. Now think about this, how much is it going to cost for that same seed from the store? How much more will I save? Think about that and don't knock regrowing your veggies, but if you do, let it grow, but let it go to seed! Its not an experiment, its fact. Getting free seeds from what you grow is important.
2000 stocks of celery must be almost $2 worth of seed. It might only be a quarter but he'll that's too much when you can get it for free all you have to do is waste a lot of time with very small expectation of good results....
From reading the comments, several people seem angry, I would suggest for you to write a title that is very true to the content in the video, if celery is in your title, talk about celery first and do the other questions later, that way people won't have such a terrible reaction, and they won't feel misled. I know your intentions are good and you are blessing many with good knowledge. Thank you for your time and energy!
I normally agree with most things John says, but I have to totally disagree with the re-growing of celery! I have done this many times in soil, as well as hydroponically with VERY productive results! Just go watch my videos on celery, and you will see proof in the pudding! It also doesn't take forever to get results, vs growing from seed. I plan on doing this in dutch buckets this fall so be sure to check it out ; )
Keyplayr61 Greenhouse Hydroponics And Gardens can you post a link to that? I am regrowing my celery as we speak just to play around. Never knew others were doing it but mine grew really quick just sitting in water in a sunny area. So what's my next step to take to move it from water to the ground in order to get them to grow into food from the new growth I got?
I also disagree about the celery regrow because as the roots develop and the new plant emerges, the old plant dies off so it's a brand new celery that your getting.
Celery - none of my seeds came up but I did plant about 3 regrows (straight into the garden in the warm weather) from what we bought from the store and they are thriving. Climate probably matters too because I'm in Canada and our summers are shorter and a bit cooler so we probably have to plant celery indoors early and then transplant if we want it planted from seeds.
after you grow and cut your celery down to just the top of the dirt while still in the ground,keep the bottom of the celery roots in the ground and do this in the end of growing season,don`t take it out of the ground just cover it for the winter and then uncover it for the next cool spring ,uncover it and it will grow again on it`s own,and get bigger stalks each year.
I planted a few celery bottoms last year. This summer they all went to seed, and I have like a million celery seeds. Hopefully this winter I'll get random celery stalks growing in my garden.
I would like to take a moment and truly thank you for the great channel, Your videos are understandable and to the point, I am sure you have inspired other as myself. Thank you.
Oh I hope you got on well with the girl!!! Thank you so much for your videos. Whenever I watch them when I'm feeling down, they make me feel better. You're happiness is contagious!
Your description of growing celery from seed that first works on a reliable food source with roots versus the celery cutting with limited food source was a great example. Thank you.
Don't play hard to get, John, like someone advised. Just BE Y O U! Sending you love and so much luck to find someone to add more happiness to your life. And for those of you who try so hard to do the right thing for yourself and not eat what everyone else does...keep on keeping on. I am the lone stranger in my house. My family IS NOT on board. So, it is VERY challenging and tempting at times. Things that are bad for you are brought into my home on a daily basis by others. =/ Do the right thing for YOU!!!
I feel like a lone stranger too at times. When I have a friend or family member in the garden and I offer them something to eat fresh off the plant, they look at me like I'm crazy. ...like I'm offering them roadkill or something.
I love your videos! And i had to click on this one because I've grown celery in this way! In the winter I started regrowing celery, and yes it did rot a little, but when it got warm enough to put out side, i did. And it grew well! but i have never grown celery from seed because of the short growing season. good video! thanks!
Being single, I use very little celery, so the stalk that I rooted has been supplying me with small stalks that I've been adding to the frying pan. At first it was skinny, but now, about a year later, it's decided to bolt and it putting out thicker stalks that joint and climb and at the top are these tiny white flowers that promise to produce seeds for another generation of celery plants!
Good advice on the juice fast! The other consideration is that if you break a fast with pizza you'll likely throw up or have unpleasant visits to the bathroom. I've known many folks who have completed a fast, and jumped right into celebratory food, only to experience one of those outcomes. Bring a bottle - best advice! And then ease back onto processed food when it's time.
John: 'Growing from cuttings is easier and faster than seeds' John: 'Practice 'cut and come again' for additional harvests' Also John: 'Don't cut and regrown celery!'
This guy is wrong. He has viewers because we garden nuts want to learn something. But not much from him. Regrow the celery. Use all the greens in soup etc. No need to waste any of it or let it go to seed. Also fun to let the children watch it root in the kitchen.
John is so cute in an awkward way. "I don't have a daughter-in-law, or a daughter….I really do have anything right now." lol Awww. You have us, your RUclips family! :)
I planted my celery cutting six months ago so i can get seeds for planting . I started harvesting the stalks eight weeks later. The plant is still growing new stalks. I have taken advise to wrap the stem in black cardboard to blanche it
I'm really surprised some comments are so impatient haha, I watch your videos to learn the plethora of knowledge you drop. Thank you for keeping us informed!!
I usually re-grow 4 or 5 celery stumps every spring just for the leaves. Here in Fl, the regrowth will make huge leafy tops but hardly any stalk. I'd have to agree, it's more of a novelty than anything. However, I do like the strong flavor of the leaves minced up & spread sparingly in a salad. I also use them in my green juices on occasion. Edit: I do plant mine out in a 16 inch container to get them to re-grow so large. I think the water method is absolutely for novelty.
If the damage is done at night by bugs, it might be earwigs. They will pile into a basic oil trap. I found a great use for GMO corn.... I use corn oil to catch the critters in small containers. I use corn oil because it's cheap. The trap only needs an inch or so of oil. Earwigs will come out at night and drown in the oil.
It was long enough to get to the celery part... and I thing you're right. In winter, it's nice to have those tiny plants coming back to life, but during the summer planting stuff is way more efficient
To the person with holes in his very young plants - I use DE but only after watering since watering will wash DE off your leaves where you want it to stay. But the best thing I've used is just plain dish liquid soap.
Here are my thoughts about the celery: Have you heard of Cutting or Chinese Leaf Celery? It's very hard to find and you grow it for the tops. It grows with the same habit of Italian Parsley and can be grown more easily than standard celery. The strongest flavor in celery is in the leaf tops for soups, stews, salads. Unfortunately, the product you buy at the store usually have the tops lobbed off. I might try to regrow a celery plant for the leaves alone. I wouldn't be concerned that my plant overall might be puny. Might be an easier alternative to buying the seeds for the Chinese Leaf Celery which are hard to start and don't grow as quickly in our zone if directly seeded.
I tried to regrow from cut celery - had it growing in water in my kitchen window for almost a month and it hadn't grown any roots 🤔 I went ahead and moved it to a planter because it had already grown so tall, but it quickly shriveled up. Any tips from people who have successfully done this would be greatly appreciated.
Easy for you to say, John, you live in a warm clime, everything grows for you all year round. I've planted thousands of celery seeds here and not a one has come up, let alone grew to maturity. I'd rather plant a sure thing, as it's a use for that stump that would otherwise get thrown in the compost and have to rot all year. I just stick those stumps directly in the soil of my no till hay mulched garden and within a week they are sprouting new stems, so if I can get a stalk or two from each of those before they go to seed or even if they DO go to seed and they spread their own kind, it's well worth the few seconds I spent placing it in the garden.
what about a scenario where you are growing celery in your garden and the root system is already established? If you just wanted to cut off the usuable portion, wouldn't that still allow for the celery to regrow more quickly since the root system is already developed?
Taking stalks from the outer portions encourages regrowth. Of course you can also do a full harvest but not exactly sure how long that would take to replenish versus harvesting as needed from the outside edges
Jim Rogers says the farmers are going to be driving the Ferrari's in the future, so really you are all very wise to develop these skills, especially with the horrible quality of food in the stores.
Revelations lol farmers in ferrarris would love to see that, but all the farmers i know are struggling like all hell with increased demands and decreased prices trying to compete with cheap imports. supermarkets are filled with these cheap imports at high prices, hmm who is making the money again then, is it the producers or maybe those that sell them then. so yes quality decreases as farmers try to produce more and more on the land they have, turning to more intensive methods just to try and compete. the only way out of this is for consumers to choose more carefully, buy local grown from producers do not spend your hard earned cash in supermarkets etc, do not buy the carbon heavy imported things, pay the little extra to support an organic farmer rather than buy that 50p lettuce in the supermarket, go to farmers markets etc. so yeah over here for sure there are no farmers in ferrarris and not likely to happen any time soon, maybe other countries are different but i think everyone is facing the same issues, even the countries producing the cheap crops that are imported everywhere else, because they are paid such low prices for their crops they are struggling as well, with little more than slave labour, children working long hours in the sun on very little pay. so really before blaming farmers maybe look at who is actually making the big money. the middle men.
I did the re-grow of celery.. it was interesting.. and what I did was I took all the celery stocks off so all I had was the small little young one's that are in the middle and put it in water till they grew roots, I then planted it in healthy compost and mixed soil and It worked . I have a strong healthy stocks .. so yes it does work but like John said it really isn't as fast as doing it by seed.. But it was kind of fun to try(novelty) would I do it again ? probable not ... the only thing is I don't think it would be considered organic even thou it was when I purchased it.. that's a good Question. John what do you think? because it is considered as a re-grow..
Potted Celery - Cut the celery 1 1/2 inches above the roots and make sure the celery is watered all the time. I keep my pots of celery in large plastic boxes (water stays) and use fish emulsion mixed with water every two weeks and manure tea every two weeks alternating with the emulsion.(water is better left overnight before use on plants).
I plant a few celery cuttings myself, but as other have said you won't get much stalks from them, but they bolt fairly fast, so I just let them go to flower for the bees. The bees really like them, and they will reseed some volunteers. You should also pull most of the stalks from around the base, down to just the center part, because the cut stalks will just rot anyway. Compost the trimmings.
Great insight. I am right there with you when it comes to re-growing celery. It is a novelty for sure, but like you said, I would rather grow one, and let it go to seed and have 40-50 free volunteer plants, than 1 I bought that was shipped across the country and soaked in water, not to mention probably inorganic, and then grow it out just to harvest a few stalks.
Kinda cringy... from someone that SELLS seeds... this opinion is not worth much, sorry. Have you ever tried to do it? The reason I did it 3 times now was to procure better seeds FOR FREE. That's something YOU can't "get" because you SELL seeds.
It takes time for celery seeds to grow. I am going to buy organic celery from the store to eat anyways, I might as well plant them and get more from it instead of composting the root.
I appreciate all this extra information thank you. Not only do he cover the celery which was common sense tbh but learning the bigger picture and connecting the dots! Cheers Im subscribing!
I've read that the concentration of nutrients in celery is in the leaves- and not the stalks. I've regrown celery indoors and used the leaves to juice in the winter as celery bought at the store has the leaves cut off almost entirely. I have grown celery- and it takes 100+ plus days (outskirts of Buffalo, NY) I have a "cut off" in my garden now- growing leaves. Thoughts?
I cut em while they're still in the ground and generally when I need em. They grow back faster that way. Same with onions and lettuce. No need to pull em all the way, when you're just going to cut and replant right? Of course I garden to self sustain, but not to make money from. With me, every crop has "the seeder" who doesn't get cut and blows seeds around for me to find lil sprouts. I'm also using rabbit manure for my garden. Two rabbits put out a heck of a lot. 10x more than what I need.
Ashmeed Mohammed I could, but for a different reason lol. I only grow enough to sustain the family. The reason I cut when I need it. Some never get cut and get big enough to seed. More pops up next year. Do the same with onions, and mints too. I started my garden mixed with everything growing in one spot. The following years after they went to seed and grew, half the backyard is scattered with random veggies and herbs lol. Still lost on how spearmint ended up on the roof. Must have been a bird.
Rick, I grow lentil sprouts in glass jars. I soak then for no more than 4hrs. They're yummy in salads. I haven't been successful regrow veggies. They spurt up, don't grow roots, then rot. Go but don't eat pizza! Drink lots of juice before you go so you are not hungry and pack some juice in the car because your tummy might be rumbling by the time you leave. Listen to John. Stick to your guns so to speak. Good luck Rick.
Yeah, like, I'm not a farmer. And, I certainly do not want to turn my already itty bitty backyard into a field. I just want to grow veggies indoors all year long (esp. winter ).> How do you grow veggies so that you only harvest what you need as you need them? How many days or weeks apart would I need to plant? >I am trying to grow beefsteak tomatoes from store bought tomatoes. I thinly sliced them, placed them in a potting soil filled plastic salad bowl w/ a drainage hole, then covered them with a thin layer of the soil. I have been watering them just enough so that the soil is moist but not soaked. About a little over a week there were 4 sprouts which I have transferred into 4 laundry baskets each lined with a fabric shopping bag and filled w/more soil. I still have the salad bowl and noticed another sprout a few days after. I would like to repeat this process with other vegetables. I've been gathering a lot information, the "best of" so to speak of each video/article. However, I don't recollect any of them addressing how long apart (time) you should plant to have continuous crops without having to harvest all at once. I did see the carrot video and carrots may be harvested as you need them from the same batch>Would someone with this knowledge please kindly reply to my post. Thanks in advance.
I've re-grown great celery in the past. This year, I also grew some from seed. It taste soooo much better than any celery I'd ever tasted. Yep. I used some rock dust. The only reason I think it's a 'good to know' topic, is it can get the interest of others that might not normally garden. It might get someone excited about growing food.
I want to see a full season series of John survival in the Jungle or botanical adventures btw my Brandywine vines are touching nearly 3 meters thanks to Rockdust and GOODLUCK with your DATE !
If you are preparing organic soil for seedlings, make sure that the compost you use is sterilized. Sixty years ago we were simply heat the compost to 65 centigrade for 20 minutes so that all eggs of of the pests would die. Then protect the compost from any insects to contaminate it. you can use proper inoculants to speed the process of geting the soil to get alive again. without inoculants it's recommended to wait at least two weeks. (and this is a better poroces because the toxin released during the sterilization are released from the treated compost.) your compost is simply infected and used too early for seedlings.
If u live in apt in city u get creative. Im addicted to growing celery from celery bottoms n 97 percent successful . I let root in water for about 10 days then plant in plastic container . 2/3,soil 1/3 sand . I use plastic coffee containers with drain holes I burn at bottem. I give them as presents n u can use a sprig here n there for a salad and they regrow. The oldest one I have is 8 months n I luv him. I do carrots all the time as well as I eat the greens as they grow n can be planted in a big bunch n they produce little white flowers.
My thoughts on going to the pizza party I recommend he eat a salad, that way your not eating the negative things and your being sociable and letting the focus be on the birthday girl and not bringing attention to yourself. thnx for sharing
I like to regrow my celery for the leaves. I dry them, then add them later to recipes like I would parsley. Rick: If your family loves you, which I believe they do, they will understand if you just bring your own juice, maybe even bring them some. Let them know it's a health issue & leave it at that. If you were on a medication, the doctor wouldn't tell you to quit just because there's pizza...Keep Juicing!!
In this case you can still do juice fast while respect your daughter-in-law by being honest and explaining the situation to her. If she does not have a problem, she would probably want you to come anyway and be present there. If she does, then the problem is essentially hers.
Your reasoning for why it is a waste of time is partially that the cellery cutting has to grow new roots and new stalk. Although a seed has to do the same thing, and is way tinier to begin with. I grew from seed and i tried cuttings, the cuttings grew quicker and turned out just as beautiful as the ones from seed (I did start to grow it about 2 months later than the seeds, so it turned out the same size). Besides, as a hobby it's fun anyway. However if you don't really have time for it, and you just wanna produce a lot, having one cellery do the job for you is more efficient for your own time i suppose. Thank you for the video.
Truther 416 I'm sure it is just chop it down as you need it. It will continue to grow. I think he's talking about someone trying to regrow celery from grocery store. So they have to root it in water which takes a while.
I usually enjoy his video's; but without him even trying to regrow celery verses from seed, how can he even make an educated judgement...? How long does it take to get full celery stalks from a cutting? Has anyone done this to make it worth while and pan out??? I don't want to nurse a plant for a yr. considering it would have to be indoors....if that's how long it takes. If however we can regrow organic celery quickly, I'm down for that. I'm totally interested in doing the celery juice challenge for health benefits. With all the organic celery you have to juice for the week, I would love to make better use of it with a regrowth process, ya know...?
Love most of your vids and effort but this one rubs me the wrong way for a few reasons... One reason; your celery comments sound like you're guessing. Have you actually tested your side by side theory that a seed is better than a cutting? Also, by your reasoning, no cutting is good. That would mean potatoes, and trees too. So I'm wondering, do you have any scientific information or proof as to why growing from celery seeds is better than cuttings???
Well yes for thousands of years people have grown plants from seeds. Do you have any evidence that growing from cuttings is better for celery? Have you given up common sense and you need to be proved wrong
Somewhat informed but have proofed seeds are better potato seeds don't grow have you tested it if you grow From cutting it takes less grow from seed it takes more go to the store well it's easy what I'm trying to say is it's all an opinion
Monica Reinagel ("Nutrition Diva") recently did a good podcast on the benefits of Phytates. Also Weston A. Price also has a good article on the Phytic Acid.
I live in a building and my neighbor threatened to throw from the roof all my plants that I have growing there because according to him they're breeding mosquitoes, which is not true because there's not water stagnation. But he's the building's manager and I had to take them down. I guess I'll just continue to buy tomatoes in the supermarket until I can afford a house.
Oh, that is terrible!!! My ex-husband used to say the same thing about my tomato plants, even though it wasn't true at all!! The mosquitos in general are just so bad everywhere-lots of rain this year, at least in the Midwest. Is there a yard for your building?? If there is, would he let you put some plants far back in a corner-away from people?? That-plus giving him the gift of some amazing home grown tomatoes, may just make him change his mind. Good luck.
the seed method of celery is fine if you have an outdoor garden.(i do) but celery from root cutting is fairly easy and can provide 3-4 batches before the celery plant stops reproducing. green onions work in a similiar fashion. pop the root balls in moist potting soil and you have on-demand garnish crop with no need of refrigarator rot/waste. its a totally differant concept to 'farming/gardening' imo its more of a food preservation technique. like the 3 legged pig joke...."a pig that special you don't want to eat all at once!"
The pressure to eat what others are eating is pretty intense. A few times I've felt so pressured that I pretended to eat by chewing, and then slipping the food to the dog. I saw that everyone was focused on what they were eating and never noticed.
Omg skip to 10:10 for the celery part....
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In my opinion growing is a joy in itself. It's never a waste of time.
+mchlbk yeah!
mchlbk Thank you. My thoughts exactly.
Exactly. It's growing and that helps.
Thank you 🙏🏽
I assume you have never had a batch of seeds that didn't sprout!
When a whole season is wasted it sure is a waste of time.
I grew celery from seeds and from store bought celery. The store bought celery was ready to harvest a lot quicker. I will continue to use both methods. I do not feel I have wasted my time. Different strokes for different folks.
I was wondering if anybody was actually testing this
Starts at 10:10. You are welcome
+cricardol THANK YOU!!!
thanks you I hate these bullshit RUclips talkers beating around the bush
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From 10:13 to 13:40 he addresses the celery issue. He says that if instead of taking cuttings you let your plant go to seed and grow that way it is more natural, easier, and the plant will be more productive.
Yeah, right, and thus he completely ignores a huge group of people who DO NOT have a garden, and grow stuff in extremely limited places - balconies, terraces, even indoors.
If you have room to grow the celery from grocery cuttings you have the room to grow it from seed. Space isn't really a factor in that. Obviously if you are seriously limited and growing indoors then neither will do very well and just treat it as a novelty with the cutting in that case instead of wasting money on seeds.
There are exceptions I find, eg. scallions / green onions as well as other bulbs. They grow faster than seeds.
Or sometimes in a pack of baby leaf salad I actually got a baby plant complete with roots. I planted a few of those and got full sized plants later.
Watercress is another.
To start out you could let the celery cutting grow and harvest the seed and from then on grow from seed.
In the winter you could grow the cutting in water in the window if you do have room for a pot in your house,
Dear Mary Richardson, this is the kind of answer I was looking for.
this was my plan when i planted my celery cutting six months ago . I started harvesting the stalks eight weeks later. The plant is still growing new stalks
oh sweet lord...that's 10 minutes I'll never get back. It's never a waste of time to grow anything. many a gardener grew celery or a bean in a cup
ty for the video, but I'm still regrowing one on my widow sill, it makes me smile every time I see it.
Joe Jon Me too!! In just 2 days I see so much growth already! Makes me so happy! Lol 😆
Same
Mine is interestingly growing big and strong with only water annd... a short mint stem that i placed within the celery fold rooted in the celery and is growing leaves. I replace the water every other day.I I like the excitement of seeing new growth literally everyday. Little experience so im glad they are growing well. Im afraid if i add dirt they will start to get mold, bacteria, draw bugs, dry out and die. The usual for me.
@@tiarablount1602 replace the water every so often then, however you'd be suprised how well it will grow with some soil and nutrients lol im just now replanting my baby celery seedlings and cant wait to be harvesting fresh celery to eat with some PB! Mhmmm. Happy gardening to everyone! ✌👨🌾🌶
Same
I've regrown celery and it's EXCITING!!! I had one plant regrow to FULL size!!! It's a great two-fer veggie.
I clicked on this to get to celery, you talk too much. You have great information but damn, too much useless commentary.
And nasty snark. I unsubscribed.
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Thank you John! It was little green caterpillars and I squished them with my fingers. The lentils never came out to amount to anything. I will try the seeds you recommend. The celery is still growing. I ended up staying home and had my juice. I juice fasted for 30 days. Thanks again everyone for your comments.
I bought celery that was whole from the store. Sometimes they just have the stalks. I cut the base from the stocks and just put the base or where the roots use to be in some pots and the grew a whole other plant. I cut the stocks off the new plants as I needed them but by June they got a little tough to chew. I thought it was easier then seed to tell you the truth.
I want to try it at least once.
Eat4JesusRICK shame they would have become butterflies...:(
I love this guy,
He obviously has so many thoughts in his head that he can't communicate them all verbally.
Focus Bro!
I buried some kitchen scraps. Celery came out of the ground. I ate some. Then it flowered. The seeds dropped. More celery grew. Now I have free celery every year.
Hmm. Cuttings and seeds from a grocery store, and if you replant a cut celery, it will also flower and give seed. Now think about this, how much is it going to cost for that same seed from the store? How much more will I save? Think about that and don't knock regrowing your veggies, but if you do, let it grow, but let it go to seed! Its not an experiment, its fact. Getting free seeds from what you grow is important.
2000 stocks of celery must be almost $2 worth of seed. It might only be a quarter but he'll that's too much when you can get it for free all you have to do is waste a lot of time with very small expectation of good results....
From reading the comments, several people seem angry, I would suggest for you to write a title that is very true to the content in the video, if celery is in your title, talk about celery first and do the other questions later, that way people won't have such a terrible reaction, and they won't feel misled. I know your intentions are good and you are blessing many with good knowledge. Thank you for your time and energy!
I normally agree with most things John says, but I have to totally disagree with the re-growing of celery! I have done this many times in soil, as well as hydroponically with VERY productive results! Just go watch my videos on celery, and you will see proof in the pudding! It also doesn't take forever to get results, vs growing from seed. I plan on doing this in dutch buckets this fall so be sure to check it out ; )
Keyplayr61 Greenhouse Hydroponics And Gardens
Keyplayr61 Greenhouse Hydroponics And Gardens can you post a link to that? I am regrowing my celery as we speak just to play around. Never knew others were doing it but mine grew really quick just sitting in water in a sunny area. So what's my next step to take to move it from water to the ground in order to get them to grow into food from the new growth I got?
I also disagree about the celery regrow because as the roots develop and the new plant emerges, the old plant dies off so it's a brand new celery that your getting.
How can I find your celery regrow once on your page?
Keyplayr61 Greenhouse Hydroponics And Gardens can’t find your video on celery regrowing, can you please let us know?
John you have the power ... Keep making your videos as long as you like. I for one enjoy learning from you.
Me, too! I listen, learn, and enjoyed the cute dog, too.
a waste of time this video .guys keep growing your plants
Celery - none of my seeds came up but I did plant about 3 regrows (straight into the garden in the warm weather) from what we bought from the store and they are thriving. Climate probably matters too because I'm in Canada and our summers are shorter and a bit cooler so we probably have to plant celery indoors early and then transplant if we want it planted from seeds.
Man people talking shit, this guy is dropping knowledge, and is totally a positive influence in this world, don't watch if you don't want to.
👍👍👍yes indeed! This is my first time watching his videos and I've learned a lot.
after you grow and cut your celery down to just the top of the dirt while still in the ground,keep the bottom of the celery roots in the ground and do this in the end of growing season,don`t take it out of the ground just cover it for the winter and then uncover it for the next cool spring ,uncover it and it will grow again on it`s own,and get bigger stalks each year.
Sounds like what you learned is how to "coppice" celery.
I planted a few celery bottoms last year. This summer they all went to seed, and I have like a million celery seeds. Hopefully this winter I'll get random celery stalks growing in my garden.
I would like to take a moment and truly thank you for the great channel, Your videos are understandable and to the point, I am sure you have inspired other as myself. Thank you.
Oh I hope you got on well with the girl!!! Thank you so much for your videos. Whenever I watch them when I'm feeling down, they make me feel better. You're happiness is contagious!
I grew a celery cutting and it was wonderful for soups. It really produced well during the fall season which is when I really make a lot of soups.
Your description of growing celery from seed that first works on a reliable food source with roots versus the celery cutting with limited food source was a great example. Thank you.
Don't play hard to get, John, like someone advised. Just BE Y O U! Sending you love and so much luck to find someone to add more happiness to your life.
And for those of you who try so hard to do the right thing for yourself and not eat what everyone else does...keep on keeping on. I am the lone stranger in my house. My family IS NOT on board. So, it is VERY challenging and tempting at times. Things that are bad for you are brought into my home on a daily basis by others. =/ Do the right thing for YOU!!!
I feel like a lone stranger too at times. When I have a friend or family member in the garden and I offer them something to eat fresh off the plant, they look at me like I'm crazy. ...like I'm offering them roadkill or something.
Oh, I get it. Sad, isn't it? For them...
I love your videos! And i had to click on this one because I've grown celery in this way! In the winter I started regrowing celery, and yes it did rot a little, but when it got warm enough to put out side, i did. And it grew well! but i have never grown celery from seed because of the short growing season. good video! thanks!
Being single, I use very little celery, so the stalk that I rooted has been supplying me with small stalks that I've been adding to the frying pan. At first it was skinny, but now, about a year later, it's decided to bolt and it putting out thicker stalks that joint and climb and at the top are these tiny white flowers that promise to produce seeds for another generation of celery plants!
Good advice on the juice fast! The other consideration is that if you break a fast with pizza you'll likely throw up or have unpleasant visits to the bathroom. I've known many folks who have completed a fast, and jumped right into celebratory food, only to experience one of those outcomes. Bring a bottle - best advice! And then ease back onto processed food when it's time.
John: 'Growing from cuttings is easier and faster than seeds'
John: 'Practice 'cut and come again' for additional harvests'
Also John: 'Don't cut and regrown celery!'
This guy is wrong. He has viewers because we garden nuts want to learn something. But not much from him. Regrow the celery. Use all the greens in soup etc. No need to waste any of it or let it go to seed. Also fun to let the children watch it root in the kitchen.
You didn't explain why he was wrong he explained why you were wrong. He said do it if you want but it's a waste of time
+Vineleak .... Seeds are cheap but if you can't afford a penny you can grow your celery in water.... Might even be edible.
+Frank Jahoda He's presenting his opinion. He's not wrong. You are allowed to disagree, but he's not wrong.
+Pikudo Pikao some people's children are too immature to leave comments.
John you're glowing with good health....good job! Thanks for all your good work!
John is so cute in an awkward way. "I don't have a daughter-in-law, or a daughter….I really do have anything right now." lol Awww. You have us, your RUclips family! :)
+Sarah Norment And his present girlfriend that he was just about to meet in this video...
I planted my celery cutting six months ago so i can get seeds for planting . I started harvesting the stalks eight weeks later. The plant is still growing new stalks. I have taken advise to wrap the stem in black cardboard to blanche it
I resprouted my celery just to show the grand kids. It got them more curious their food.:-)
Thanks guys ,I went straight to 10:10 . Great and helpful guy with lots of info but honestly I just wanted celery info.
I'm really surprised some comments are so impatient haha, I watch your videos to learn the plethora of knowledge you drop. Thank you for keeping us informed!!
I usually re-grow 4 or 5 celery stumps every spring just for the leaves. Here in Fl, the regrowth will make huge leafy tops but hardly any stalk. I'd have to agree, it's more of a novelty than anything. However, I do like the strong flavor of the leaves minced up & spread sparingly in a salad. I also use them in my green juices on occasion.
Edit: I do plant mine out in a 16 inch container to get them to re-grow so large. I think the water method is absolutely for novelty.
I’m gonna post a video about this because this guy is something else
If the damage is done at night by bugs, it might be earwigs. They will pile into a basic oil trap. I found a great use for GMO corn.... I use corn oil to catch the critters in small containers. I use corn oil because it's cheap. The trap only needs an inch or so of oil. Earwigs will come out at night and drown in the oil.
I hope u are staying safe & still able to farm during these times.
It was long enough to get to the celery part... and I thing you're right. In winter, it's nice to have those tiny plants coming back to life, but during the summer planting stuff is way more efficient
To the person with holes in his very young plants - I use DE but only after watering since watering will wash DE off your leaves where you want it to stay. But the best thing I've used is just plain dish liquid soap.
Here are my thoughts about the celery: Have you heard of Cutting or Chinese Leaf Celery? It's very hard to find and you grow it for the tops. It grows with the same habit of Italian Parsley and can be grown more easily than standard celery. The strongest flavor in celery is in the leaf tops for soups, stews, salads. Unfortunately, the product you buy at the store usually have the tops lobbed off. I might try to regrow a celery plant for the leaves alone. I wouldn't be concerned that my plant overall might be puny. Might be an easier alternative to buying the seeds for the Chinese Leaf Celery which are hard to start and don't grow as quickly in our zone if directly seeded.
I tried to regrow from cut celery - had it growing in water in my kitchen window for almost a month and it hadn't grown any roots 🤔 I went ahead and moved it to a planter because it had already grown so tall, but it quickly shriveled up. Any tips from people who have successfully done this would be greatly appreciated.
Maybe transplant soil was too dry ...shock from hydro to soil ?
Or you waited to long to transplant,try it over again,experiment, good luck!
I planted green onion cuttings from some we ate and also planted seeds. Those planted from cuttings grew better and I will soon have seed from those.
Another great video, John. Thanks for taking the time before your trip. Have a safe trip.
Easy for you to say, John, you live in a warm clime, everything grows for you all year round. I've planted thousands of celery seeds here and not a one has come up, let alone grew to maturity. I'd rather plant a sure thing, as it's a use for that stump that would otherwise get thrown in the compost and have to rot all year. I just stick those stumps directly in the soil of my no till hay mulched garden and within a week they are sprouting new stems, so if I can get a stalk or two from each of those before they go to seed or even if they DO go to seed and they spread their own kind, it's well worth the few seconds I spent placing it in the garden.
what about a scenario where you are growing celery in your garden and the root system is already established? If you just wanted to cut off the usuable portion, wouldn't that still allow for the celery to regrow more quickly since the root system is already developed?
Taking stalks from the outer portions encourages regrowth. Of course you can also do a full harvest but not exactly sure how long that would take to replenish versus harvesting as needed from the outside edges
Jim Rogers says the farmers are going to be driving the Ferrari's in the future, so really you are all very wise to develop these skills, especially with the horrible quality of food in the stores.
Revelations lol farmers in ferrarris would love to see that, but all the farmers i know are struggling like all hell with increased demands and decreased prices trying to compete with cheap imports. supermarkets are filled with these cheap imports at high prices, hmm who is making the money again then, is it the producers or maybe those that sell them then. so yes quality decreases as farmers try to produce more and more on the land they have, turning to more intensive methods just to try and compete. the only way out of this is for consumers to choose more carefully, buy local grown from producers do not spend your hard earned cash in supermarkets etc, do not buy the carbon heavy imported things, pay the little extra to support an organic farmer rather than buy that 50p lettuce in the supermarket, go to farmers markets etc. so yeah over here for sure there are no farmers in ferrarris and not likely to happen any time soon, maybe other countries are different but i think everyone is facing the same issues, even the countries producing the cheap crops that are imported everywhere else, because they are paid such low prices for their crops they are struggling as well, with little more than slave labour, children working long hours in the sun on very little pay. so really before blaming farmers maybe look at who is actually making the big money. the middle men.
dragonmaddie I am not blaming farmers.
dragonmaddie you went on such a mad unsubstantiated rant that you forgot what you originally were talking about. holy shit hahaha
I did the re-grow of celery.. it was interesting.. and what I did was I took all the celery stocks off so all I had was the small little young one's that are in the middle and put it in water till they grew roots, I then planted it in healthy compost and mixed soil and It worked . I have a strong healthy stocks .. so yes it does work but like John said it really isn't as fast as doing it by seed.. But it was kind of fun to try(novelty) would I do it again ? probable not ... the only thing is I don't think it would be considered organic even thou it was when I purchased it.. that's a good Question. John what do you think? because it is considered as a re-grow..
Potted Celery - Cut the celery 1 1/2 inches above the roots and make sure the celery is watered all the time. I keep my pots of celery in large plastic boxes (water stays) and use fish emulsion mixed with water every two weeks and manure tea every two weeks alternating with the emulsion.(water is better left overnight before use on plants).
I plant a few celery cuttings myself, but as other have said you won't get much stalks from them, but they bolt fairly fast, so I just let them go to flower for the bees. The bees really like them, and they will reseed some volunteers. You should also pull most of the stalks from around the base, down to just the center part, because the cut stalks will just rot anyway. Compost the trimmings.
Great insight. I am right there with you when it comes to re-growing celery. It is a novelty for sure, but like you said, I would rather grow one, and let it go to seed and have 40-50 free volunteer plants, than 1 I bought that was shipped across the country and soaked in water, not to mention probably inorganic, and then grow it out just to harvest a few stalks.
Kinda cringy... from someone that SELLS seeds... this opinion is not worth much, sorry. Have you ever tried to do it? The reason I did it 3 times now was to procure better seeds FOR FREE. That's something YOU can't "get" because you SELL seeds.
It takes time for celery seeds to grow. I am going to buy organic celery from the store to eat anyways, I might as well plant them and get more from it instead of composting the root.
I appreciate all this extra information thank you. Not only do he cover the celery which was common sense tbh but learning the bigger picture and connecting the dots!
Cheers Im subscribing!
I've read that the concentration of nutrients in celery is in the leaves- and not the stalks. I've regrown celery indoors and used the leaves to juice in the winter as celery bought at the store has the leaves cut off almost entirely. I have grown celery- and it takes 100+ plus days (outskirts of Buffalo, NY) I have a "cut off" in my garden now- growing leaves. Thoughts?
I would bring your juice to drink or and have a salad from the salad bar and enjoy every ones company. Great questions and good answers.
Can I be your garden maid? I'll get up at 3am and squash your bugs for you... :wink: lol
I cut em while they're still in the ground and generally when I need em. They grow back faster that way. Same with onions and lettuce. No need to pull em all the way, when you're just going to cut and replant right? Of course I garden to self sustain, but not to make money from.
With me, every crop has "the seeder" who doesn't get cut and blows seeds around for me to find lil sprouts.
I'm also using rabbit manure for my garden. Two rabbits put out a heck of a lot. 10x more than what I need.
seems like u could do with some more real estate!
Ashmeed Mohammed I could, but for a different reason lol. I only grow enough to sustain the family. The reason I cut when I need it. Some never get cut and get big enough to seed. More pops up next year. Do the same with onions, and mints too. I started my garden mixed with everything growing in one spot. The following years after they went to seed and grew, half the backyard is scattered with random veggies and herbs lol. Still lost on how spearmint ended up on the roof. Must have been a bird.
Jeremy Blair Spearmint on the Roof! That's just great =D
It's wet in your garden?? Rain John? That's rare in your neck of the woods.
General rule of thumb, if bugs don't want to eat your plant; you probably shouldn't want to eat it either.
Rick, I grow lentil sprouts in glass jars. I soak then for no more than 4hrs. They're yummy in salads. I haven't been successful regrow veggies. They spurt up, don't grow roots, then rot. Go but don't eat pizza! Drink lots of juice before you go so you are not hungry and pack some juice in the car because your tummy might be rumbling by the time you leave. Listen to John. Stick to your guns so to speak. Good luck Rick.
Go get 'er, John! Thanks for all you do!
What you think bout gettin seed from the regrow celery plant? For those without access or cant afgord seeds?
One thing I did for frost and bugs was use half of a 2 liter bottle and put it over the plant until it's big enough to fight on its own
Yeah, like, I'm not a farmer. And, I certainly do not want to turn my already itty bitty backyard into a field. I just want to grow veggies indoors all year long (esp. winter ).> How do you grow veggies so that you only harvest what you need as you need them? How many days or weeks apart would I need to plant? >I am trying to grow beefsteak tomatoes from store bought tomatoes. I thinly sliced them, placed them in a potting soil filled plastic salad bowl w/ a drainage hole, then covered them with a thin layer of the soil. I have been watering them just enough so that the soil is moist but not soaked. About a little over a week there were 4 sprouts which I have transferred into 4 laundry baskets each lined with a fabric shopping bag and filled w/more soil. I still have the salad bowl and noticed another sprout a few days after. I would like to repeat this process with other vegetables. I've been gathering a lot information, the "best of" so to speak of each video/article. However, I don't recollect any of them addressing how long apart (time) you should plant to have continuous crops without having to harvest all at once. I did see the carrot video and carrots may be harvested as you need them from the same batch>Would someone with this knowledge please kindly reply to my post. Thanks in advance.
Aha, I just found video on celery "staggering" them 2 weeks apart.
I've re-grown great celery in the past. This year, I also grew some from seed. It taste soooo much better than any celery I'd ever tasted. Yep. I used some rock dust. The only reason I think it's a 'good to know' topic, is it can get the interest of others that might not normally garden. It might get someone excited about growing food.
I love your videos!!
Best wishes for your trip
I want to see a full season series of John survival in the Jungle or botanical adventures btw my Brandywine vines are touching nearly 3 meters thanks to Rockdust and GOODLUCK with your DATE !
If you are preparing organic soil for seedlings, make sure that the compost you use is sterilized. Sixty years ago we were simply heat the compost to 65 centigrade for 20 minutes so that all eggs of of the pests would die. Then protect the compost from any insects to contaminate it. you can use proper inoculants to speed the process of geting the soil to get alive again. without inoculants it's recommended to wait at least two weeks. (and this is a better poroces because the toxin released during the sterilization are released from the treated compost.) your compost is simply infected and used too early for seedlings.
Just an FYI, youtube instant cc translations are often wrong. Not sure if that's what you were referring to at the start of this video.
If u live in apt in city u get creative. Im addicted to growing celery from celery bottoms n 97 percent successful . I let root in water for about 10 days then plant in plastic container . 2/3,soil 1/3 sand . I use plastic coffee containers with drain holes I burn at bottem. I give them as presents n u can use a sprig here n there for a salad and they regrow. The oldest one I have is 8 months n I luv him. I do carrots all the time as well as I eat the greens as they grow n can be planted in a big bunch n they produce little white flowers.
A date? YAY! Hope you had a great time!
I wish I could get my boyfriend to be as enthusiastic about gardening and aquaponics as you are.
You are a good man.
Ain't nobody good but the Father.
My thoughts on going to the pizza party I recommend he eat a salad, that way your not eating the negative things and your being sociable and letting the focus be on the birthday girl and not bringing attention to yourself. thnx for sharing
LOL.. when John said set your alarm and get up at 3am.. I was thinking... really? haha! He got me there.. he was just kidding xD
I don't eat leaves with holes as it's just an ingrained thing, it looks spoilt so it probably is :s great videos x
I like to regrow my celery for the leaves. I dry them, then add them later to recipes like I would parsley.
Rick: If your family loves you, which I believe they do, they will understand if you just bring your own juice, maybe even bring them some. Let them know it's a health issue & leave it at that. If you were on a medication, the doctor wouldn't tell you to quit just because there's pizza...Keep Juicing!!
YES! Having a handful of leaves for soup when you're out of stalks is a meal saver.
10 min to get to the specified topic.........not good. Perhaps you should change your headline.
Often content providers link to the places where they start their talks in the description. This one did too.
In this case you can still do juice fast while respect your daughter-in-law by being honest and explaining the situation to her. If she does not have a problem, she would probably want you to come anyway and be present there. If she does, then the problem is essentially hers.
Your reasoning for why it is a waste of time is partially that the cellery cutting has to grow new roots and new stalk. Although a seed has to do the same thing, and is way tinier to begin with. I grew from seed and i tried cuttings, the cuttings grew quicker and turned out just as beautiful as the ones from seed (I did start to grow it about 2 months later than the seeds, so it turned out the same size). Besides, as a hobby it's fun anyway. However if you don't really have time for it, and you just wanna produce a lot, having one cellery do the job for you is more efficient for your own time i suppose. Thank you for the video.
i was so up for going out at 3 am and chekin my leaves. hahahaha
take your juice with you man
+stevencox75 :)
Thanks for your videos. I enjoy watching them and have learned a lot :)
but what if i leave the celery root in the ground when harvesting, is that a good idea ? considering i grown it from seed already
Truther 416 I'm sure it is just chop it down as you need it. It will continue to grow. I think he's talking about someone trying to regrow celery from grocery store. So they have to root it in water which takes a while.
Sooo.....this celery being regrown from a stump....can it eventually get to the point where it flowers and goes to seed?
You're so charming. Thank you for all your insight and videos. I've been watching them to prepare for when I can live on my own.
Nice KeystoneXL pipeline ad before your video, might want to do something about that.
I usually enjoy his video's; but without him even trying to regrow celery verses from seed, how can he even make an educated judgement...? How long does it take to get full celery stalks from a cutting? Has anyone done this to make it worth while and pan out??? I don't want to nurse a plant for a yr. considering it would have to be indoors....if that's how long it takes. If however we can regrow organic celery quickly, I'm down for that. I'm totally interested in doing the celery juice challenge for health benefits. With all the organic celery you have to juice for the week, I would love to make better use of it with a regrowth process, ya know...?
Love most of your vids and effort but this one rubs me the wrong way for a
few reasons... One reason; your celery comments sound like you're guessing. Have
you actually tested your side by side theory that a seed is better than a cutting? Also, by
your reasoning, no cutting is good. That would mean potatoes, and trees too. So I'm wondering, do you have any scientific information or proof as to why growing from celery seeds is better than cuttings???
Well yes for thousands of years people have grown plants from seeds. Do you have any evidence that growing from cuttings is better for celery? Have you given up common sense and you need to be proved wrong
Somewhat informed but have proofed seeds are better potato seeds don't grow have you tested it if you grow From cutting it takes less grow from seed it takes more go to the store well it's easy what I'm trying to say is it's all an opinion
Bombarded with people’s questions ? Be thankful anyone is following u at all
where do you purchase Kudzu greens?
Monica Reinagel ("Nutrition Diva") recently did a good podcast on the benefits of Phytates. Also Weston A. Price also has a good article on the Phytic Acid.
I live in a building and my neighbor threatened to throw from the roof all my plants that I have growing there because according to him they're breeding mosquitoes, which is not true because there's not water stagnation. But he's the building's manager and I had to take them down. I guess I'll just continue to buy tomatoes in the supermarket until I can afford a house.
Big Hug, that would be hard!!!
Oh, that is terrible!!! My ex-husband used to say the same thing about my tomato plants, even though it wasn't true at all!! The mosquitos in general are just so bad everywhere-lots of rain this year, at least in the Midwest. Is there a yard for your building?? If there is, would he let you put some plants far back in a corner-away from people?? That-plus giving him the gift of some amazing home grown tomatoes, may just make him change his mind. Good luck.
Dale B Totally agree with you
Hugs. That's super tough, please take care!
neptuniannymph i hate stupid neighbor.
Is hard to find neighbor like u!
is it possible to grow them indoor?
the seed method of celery is fine if you have an outdoor garden.(i do) but celery from root cutting is fairly easy and can provide 3-4 batches before the celery plant stops reproducing. green onions work in a similiar fashion. pop the root balls in moist potting soil and you have on-demand garnish crop with no need of refrigarator rot/waste. its a totally differant concept to 'farming/gardening' imo its more of a food preservation technique. like the 3 legged pig joke...."a pig that special you don't want to eat all at once!"
The pressure to eat what others are eating is pretty intense. A few times I've felt so pressured that I pretended to eat by chewing, and then slipping the food to the dog. I saw that everyone was focused on what they were eating and never noticed.
Good luck on your trip! You deserve the best. LINDA PS Being a single vegetarian is tricky enough, can't imagine being a raw food-er too. : )
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