Thank you so much for this video! Everything I came across said use dirt in mounds around the celery to blanch so I haven’t attempted it because I didn’t have room to do that in the places I planted. Now I can using your method. Just in time too!
do you mean mounding up with garbage or filth when you say 'dirt' , because that's what i hear when you use the word 'dirt'. to me, dirt is by definition something unclean, but 'soil' can be used to mean something organic natural and wholesome. or maybe the exact english and american nuances of the word have diverged over time.
I am from a completely different generation, still a teenager and I don't even like celery at all. But I love the way you film your videos. They give off a very friendly and calm feeling and the reason why I have watched at least five today already :D
Hey, maybe I can convince you to! If not, I'm happy you enjoy my efforts! Please tune in Sunday at 8am PST for next livestream. If not available, watch the replay!
Dear Kaye, my whole family loves watching your videos (parents, grandparents, siblings, kids,) you have such a wonderful personality and the information you provide is just great! We're attempting to grow celery for the first time this year and had I not seen this video, we'd be totally lost! So thanks again!
I'm sorry, I did not get a notification for this video and just happened to visit the page. Thank you SO much for your support! I wonder how your celery did this year? My first Late Bloomer apparel is now available to order, if you are interested! I am offering T-shirts in 6 styles, in wonderful earthy colors, and you can find them here: www.bonfire.com/late-bloomer Please keep watching my channel! Tune in tomorrow for my livestream at 8am PST if possible.
Honey that was nice... but wish you’d shown us three weeks later and unveiled them for us to see the final step.. but beautifully presented... hope they grow for me here in England 🏴
Good morning smart and beautiful, the birds are singing so you must be out and about, so enjoy this beautiful day and keep smiling that beautiful smile of yours, and GOD BLESS your beautiful precious heart 😇🌹🦜🐝🐞
Thank you for this video, Kaye! This is my first year to try celery and I hadn't even thought about blanching. The seeds were so tiny that I got more than one in each seed pod. So I think by the time I'm done separating, repotting and transplanting into the garden I'll have about 100 plants!
Tracy Garns Yeah that’s what happened to me. If you remember that video where all of these plants came out of one pot, except for those three in the front yard which were re-grown. Eric and I spent that video separating them and putting them in different pots.
I just sowed pink celery seeds 2 days ago and here i am watching how to blanch the stems when the cotyledons haven't pop out yet! Thank you anyway. At least i know what to plan and prepare for the next few months
Super! I didn't even know about it, till my pal Patrick in London (that I visited and toured his allotment in '17) told me about it. Tune in tomorrow if possible for my livestream at 8am PST. I'll be going till 10am, if you can catch any part of it. Hopefully next month I'll switch to Saturday.
Beautiful healthy Celery Kaye. Here you can get self-blanching but your type is more available. I eat a lot of Celery. I find it lasts a long time in the fridge. Chat on Sunday, Patrick
Thank you so much for watching! I've been waiting for months to make this video and still the stems (technically the stem and leaves are called the leaf of the plant) were not quite fat enough. If you grow celery, you will wonder about this. Please subscribe!
I did not plant celery this time. I have one store bought that my granddaughter saved the core and planted as experiment. I saw a couple of your tips that seems to make blanching easier than how I did it. I'll apply it next time. Thanks for sharing Kaye.
You are welcome! Tune in tomorrow if possible for my livestream at 8am PST. I'll be going till 10am, if you can catch any part of it. Hopefully next month I'll switch to Saturday.
WONDERFUL VIDEO ! I just subscribed & am going out now to loosely tie my celery up, so they won't be so hard to tie up when it's time to blansh . Thanks for all the great ideas !
I thought of using brown paper lunch bags, cut bottom off slip over plant then tie at top. Thanks for the ideas because we do not always have the sacks around the house. Sue
Thanks for your video. I am starting to grow my celery from the cut bottom part soaked it in water, now I see nice sprouts just in 4 days. I will need to upload it too probably.. 💕🎉
I like your style of presentation and a very common sense approach. I have wild celery growing in my garden and your video has given me useful ideas about blanching some of them before I harvest. How about celery seeds in food or drinks?
Hi Kaye, Thank you so much for this video .I have never grown celery .I had no idea about blanching either. Do you have a video on how to grow celery ?
Not specifically, but I followed the progress of these plants. Maybe I can compile one one of these days. But, I think in most of the country it's already been started this year.
I loved this video & I live in central Wisconsin. I planted 4 small celery plants in June. Its August 28th today. When is 3 weeks before harvest so I can blanch? Thank you!
I'm sorry I didn't get a notification for this comment. I hope you figured it out that celery is a cool season plant and it usually bolts (puts up a flower stalk and goes to seed) as soon as the temps are 80. I know it gets hot in WI. I would plant in Feb or Mar and use a frost blanket over the deepest freezes and harvest end of May or beginning of June. Mine has already bolted and I'm now in TN, zone 7a.
celery is delicious with bird. i was given tall utah seeds for Christmas but will have to wait for autumn to try growing. trying some restarts now with some success...
Ok, I keep making it earlier, but of course, it's impossible on Sunday AM to catch churchgoers in this country. I will have to rethink the day in future.
The best, I find, is plastic bottles - cut the bottom and top with a piece of dark felt inside and around the bottle. Or a piece of large pvc pipe. The ink from the newspaper might not be a good idea
Thank you!! Always appreciated!! Tune in tomorrow if possible for my livestream at 8am PST. I'll be going till 10am, if you can catch any part of it. Hopefully next month I'll switch to Saturday.
It is like corriander plant ditto. The smell may differ . For what receipees it is used? In India it is not so popular. Your demo video is good. Your smile is friendly.👍👌
Hello ty for yr video what time of year do u put your celery starts out in the garden. Ive been waiting for the warmer weather perhaps I’ve done this all wrong . Ive grown celery before it’s not easy but I’ve never covered it and tied it they all came in at once and started to like mold or get this speckles on it sadly
Celery is a cool season plant. I have always started from seed, and recommend it. Depending on your growing zone, generally seed celery and other cool season plants in February. They will bolt (put up flower stalks which go to seed at end of bloom) as soon as it warms up. For example, now I live in TN zone 7a and all my celery is bolting end of May. Once it bolts, it's too bitter to enjoy eating. But that's okay as it will drop seed and be back next year. Not sure what the speckles are but if you are trying to set it out now, it's too late in the season unless you are up north in Canada. You don't need to worry about this blanching technique till you get the hang of growing it successfully. Just know that celery doesn't grow up in a tight bundle like it comes in the store. The stalks spread out. I might do a short video on this for my channel. I hope you will subscribe. My circumstances are far different and much more interesting and challenging here on my homestead. God bless!
I'm sorry, but did you explain what to do after you put them in the newspaper? How long to keep on, is that what you did with the 3 stalks that you harvested in the last part of the video. Sorry, I'm confused on what to do after the blanching.
I'm so sorry! I didn't get a notification for this and just happened to stop by the page. You should only do this in the last 2-3 weeks before harvesting. If you cut the celery just above the ground, it will grow back.
I’m from asia, and our celery is usually like that thin one. It has very strong fragrant, and bitter. I don’t like it. But I’m very curious about that thick, crunchy blanched celery. How does it taste like?
It's a little bitter, but not nearly as bitter as if you don't do this. Which is why they usually trim off the leaves in the store, because they are so bitter.
Similarly, in Trinidad and Tobago this is what our celery looks like. I thought it was a matter of species of celery. Honestly, we just refer to the thin one as local celery and the thick one as American celery. There is definitely a difference in taste. I guess that here in Trinidad and Tobago we have grown used to the taste of the thin one and for many we much prefer that taste. It's essential to our local cuisine. Wow this is interesting.
I am wondering ... can the cardboard inserts from paper towels could be substituted for the newspaper in the blanching process when wrapping the celery stalks?
Yes, definitely, though they might restrict the celery from getting fat. If you happen to have some of those cardboard rolls from wrapping paper, that might work better. Can also use a milk carton.
Barbara Rickman Depending on where you live you should start it early like January or February at the latest and I just sprinkle seeds they’re very small with a very fine maybe eighth of an inch to quarter of an inch of sifted soil over the top I keep that moist until they sprout and what I did was sprinkle a whole bunch on a big pot and then I transplanted the shoots and a separate pots when they got about 8 inches tall with about six leaves. Eric and I transplanted these about last fall sometime, very slow growing.
As I mentioned, the stalks get tougher and more bitter. You certainly don't have to. The first time I grew a lot of celery I didn't and couldn't figure out why my celery didn't look like what was in the store. Blanching also keeps the stalks closer together and less chance of caterpillars getting down between them at the base. The celery moth can lay eggs on celery. I encourage you to try growing from seed next time which is much more economical. Thanks for watching!
@@Latebloomershow so, I live in Canada and planted my celery end of May. It is Now almost end of july and the stalks with leaves are about knee high. Do I blanch now so that they will be edible ?! Thank you
i hate it when i hear americans use the word dirt when they really mean soil. soil (to me) means something natural, earthy and life-giving. dirt seems such a disrespectful word to use, evoking the idea of something contemptible or unclean. i wonder if the word dirt really means the same thing on each side of the ocean.
Thank you so much for this video! Everything I came across said use dirt in mounds around the celery to blanch so I haven’t attempted it because I didn’t have room to do that in the places I planted. Now I can using your method. Just in time too!
Wonderful!!! Please subscribe if you haven't already!
do you mean mounding up with garbage or filth when you say 'dirt' , because that's what i hear when you use the word 'dirt'. to me, dirt is by definition something unclean, but 'soil' can be used to mean something organic natural and wholesome. or maybe the exact english and american nuances of the word have diverged over time.
I use two old kitchen roll tubes . Lovely video ❤
Great idea!
Very timely that this two year old video popped up in my feed. I'm growing celery and needed this info.
Yes, I saw you planted starts. They are hard to get going.
I am from a completely different generation, still a teenager and I don't even like celery at all. But I love the way you film your videos.
They give off a very friendly and calm feeling and the reason why I have watched at least five today already :D
Thank you, Talika!! I appreciate that!
I agree fully, she is just soooooo pretty and spreading so much motherly love
I don't even garden, but these videos are very calming and wholesome.
Hey, maybe I can convince you to! If not, I'm happy you enjoy my efforts! Please tune in Sunday at 8am PST for next livestream. If not available, watch the replay!
Thank you!
Perhaps you should start?
That’s exactly what gardening does. Brings calmness and teaches patience
I love this lady’s life so much, when I grow old I want to be like her
Who me? Hope I'm not old yet. 😉
Kaye Kittrell | Late Bloomer Urban Organic Garden Show no off course you’re super young! But I am only 28yo ☺️
@@Latebloomershow lol
I Am sure you are still young and active. Love you
She's not old, just experienced & beautiful. I wished folks would tone down the music a little, can be very distracting.
Dear Kaye, my whole family loves watching your videos (parents, grandparents, siblings, kids,) you have such a wonderful personality and the information you provide is just great! We're attempting to grow celery for the first time this year and had I not seen this video, we'd be totally lost! So thanks again!
I'm sorry, I did not get a notification for this video and just happened to visit the page. Thank you SO much for your support! I wonder how your celery did this year? My first Late Bloomer apparel is now available to order, if you are interested! I am offering T-shirts in 6 styles, in wonderful earthy colors, and you can find them here: www.bonfire.com/late-bloomer Please keep watching my channel! Tune in tomorrow for my livestream at 8am PST if possible.
Honey that was nice... but wish you’d shown us three weeks later and unveiled them for us to see the final step.. but beautifully presented... hope they grow for me here in England 🏴
We just met! It was a pleasure. Thanks for sharing your knowledge and expertise.
Good morning smart and beautiful, the birds are singing so you must be out and about, so enjoy this beautiful day and keep smiling that beautiful smile of yours, and GOD BLESS your beautiful precious heart 😇🌹🦜🐝🐞
Good morning!
Thank you for this video, Kaye! This is my first year to try celery and I hadn't even thought about blanching. The seeds were so tiny that I got more than one in each seed pod. So I think by the time I'm done separating, repotting and transplanting into the garden I'll have about 100 plants!
Tracy Garns Yeah that’s what happened to me. If you remember that video where all of these plants came out of one pot, except for those three in the front yard which were re-grown. Eric and I spent that video separating them and putting them in different pots.
I just sowed pink celery seeds 2 days ago and here i am watching how to blanch the stems when the cotyledons haven't pop out yet! Thank you anyway. At least i know what to plan and prepare for the next few months
NYer here. what a lovely vid. Im re growing my celery from roots from left overs. Ill set this up. Thanks you brightened my day.
So neat! I've been busy busy getting all the plants going and started hardening them off. It's always so satisfying tidying up the plants. -Kayla
YES! Thanks for watching, Kayla!
wow you're so pretty and well put together! I love this video! very well done and helpful. thanks!
Thank you so much!!
Thank you for the lesson 🤹🤹👍🏾
Loved the piano playing.
Loved the video!!! Thank you my Dear!!!!
This was cool. I didn’t know you could wrap them in newspaper! I’m going to try this! 🤗
Super! I didn't even know about it, till my pal Patrick in London (that I visited and toured his allotment in '17) told me about it. Tune in tomorrow if possible for my livestream at 8am PST. I'll be going till 10am, if you can catch any part of it. Hopefully next month I'll switch to Saturday.
Kaye Kittrell | Late Bloomer Urban Organic Garden Show how long do you leave it wrapped in newspapers?
Beautiful healthy Celery Kaye. Here you can get self-blanching but your type is more available. I eat a lot of Celery. I find it lasts a long time in the fridge. Chat on Sunday, Patrick
Thank you, Patrick!
Great video Kaye!!! Have not grown celery yet. Did not know about blanching them
Thank you so much for watching! I've been waiting for months to make this video and still the stems (technically the stem and leaves are called the leaf of the plant) were not quite fat enough. If you grow celery, you will wonder about this. Please subscribe!
Thank you so much
I have a cold and needed an emotional picks up
I did not plant celery this time. I have one store bought that my granddaughter saved the core and planted as experiment. I saw a couple of your tips that seems to make blanching easier than how I did it. I'll apply it next time. Thanks for sharing Kaye.
You are welcome! Tune in tomorrow if possible for my livestream at 8am PST. I'll be going till 10am, if you can catch any part of it. Hopefully next month I'll switch to Saturday.
WONDERFUL VIDEO ! I just subscribed & am going out now to loosely tie my celery up, so they won't be so hard to tie up when it's time to blansh . Thanks for all the great ideas !
Inspired me to grow celery this year! 15 years gardening never have tried it yet
Great! Be sure you regrow some from the base of the stalks as well as from seeds.
Kaye Kittrell | Late Bloomer Urban Organic Garden Show Something new thank you!
You are welcome! Please tune in Sunday at 8am PST for next livestream. If not available, watch the replay!
Great video and thank you for sharing!🤗🤗🤗🤗
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Very nice video I Love Celery ❤😇
Ty so much for this video! First time ever growing celery and from seed! 😍
I thought of using brown paper lunch bags, cut bottom off slip over plant then tie at top. Thanks for the ideas because we do not always have the sacks around the house. Sue
Great! Glad I could help!! Please tune in Sunday at 8am PST for next livestream. If not available, watch the replay!
Thanks for your video. I am starting to grow my celery from the cut bottom part soaked it in water, now I see nice sprouts just in 4 days. I will need to upload it too probably.. 💕🎉
I would have never guessed, thanks
I would have never known to do all that. The greens are beautiful probably very good in juice . I really love celery more now it's a pretty plant.
Did you know you can regrow celery from the stump?
@@Latebloomershow I didn't know that
I like your style of presentation and a very common sense approach. I have wild celery growing in my garden and your video has given me useful ideas about blanching some of them before I harvest. How about celery seeds in food or drinks?
Hi Kaye, Thank you so much for this video .I have never grown celery .I had no idea about blanching either. Do you have a video on how to grow celery ?
Not specifically, but I followed the progress of these plants. Maybe I can compile one one of these days. But, I think in most of the country it's already been started this year.
I loved this video & I live in central Wisconsin. I planted 4 small celery plants in June. Its August 28th today. When is 3 weeks before harvest so I can blanch? Thank you!
I'm sorry I didn't get a notification for this comment. I hope you figured it out that celery is a cool season plant and it usually bolts (puts up a flower stalk and goes to seed) as soon as the temps are 80. I know it gets hot in WI. I would plant in Feb or Mar and use a frost blanket over the deepest freezes and harvest end of May or beginning of June. Mine has already bolted and I'm now in TN, zone 7a.
I grew celery for the first time this year. I didn’t blanch them but next year I will try!
celery is delicious with bird. i was given tall utah seeds for Christmas but will have to wait for autumn to try growing. trying some restarts now with some success...
That's the variety I'm trying from Baker Creek.
Tracy Garns good luck Tracy!
Hey Dave and Tracy, next livestream this Sunday, 8am PST! Be there!
@@Latebloomershow I'm sorry. I'll be at church.
Ok, I keep making it earlier, but of course, it's impossible on Sunday AM to catch churchgoers in this country. I will have to rethink the day in future.
The best, I find, is plastic bottles - cut the bottom and top with a piece of dark felt inside and around the bottle. Or a piece of large pvc pipe. The ink from the newspaper might not be a good idea
Thank you! You are right, printer ink can be toxic.
Your videos help with my anxiety. Thank you!
Thank you, Thomas. I know a great deal about anxiety, so I'm glad my content helps you!
K great vid...blessings
Thank you!! Always appreciated!! Tune in tomorrow if possible for my livestream at 8am PST. I'll be going till 10am, if you can catch any part of it. Hopefully next month I'll switch to Saturday.
I am downloading this video. To enjoy whenever. I got 🤧
Can you do that?
Good job
Maybe slit a kitchen roll tube?
Celery girdle. Hum, Arkansas chrome might work, also known as duct tape. 😉
{ Deadly Wound } Hahahaha Arkansas chrome ...
Hey, that is Alabama chrome... Lol
How do you fertilize celery? What do they like to feed on?
It is like corriander plant ditto. The smell may differ . For what receipees it is used? In India it is not so popular. Your demo video is good. Your smile is friendly.👍👌
Hello ty for yr video what time of year do u put your celery starts out in the garden. Ive been waiting for the warmer weather perhaps I’ve done this all wrong . Ive grown celery before it’s not easy but I’ve never covered it and tied it they all came in at once and started to like mold or get this speckles on it sadly
Celery is a cool season plant. I have always started from seed, and recommend it. Depending on your growing zone, generally seed celery and other cool season plants in February. They will bolt (put up flower stalks which go to seed at end of bloom) as soon as it warms up. For example, now I live in TN zone 7a and all my celery is bolting end of May. Once it bolts, it's too bitter to enjoy eating. But that's okay as it will drop seed and be back next year. Not sure what the speckles are but if you are trying to set it out now, it's too late in the season unless you are up north in Canada. You don't need to worry about this blanching technique till you get the hang of growing it successfully. Just know that celery doesn't grow up in a tight bundle like it comes in the store. The stalks spread out. I might do a short video on this for my channel. I hope you will subscribe. My circumstances are far different and much more interesting and challenging here on my homestead. God bless!
@@Latebloomershow ty for this great response now I understand , so is celery like cilantro and reseed it’s self every year?
I'm sorry, but did you explain what to do after you put them in the newspaper? How long to keep on, is that what you did with the 3 stalks that you harvested in the last part of the video. Sorry, I'm confused on what to do after the blanching.
I'm so sorry! I didn't get a notification for this and just happened to stop by the page. You should only do this in the last 2-3 weeks before harvesting. If you cut the celery just above the ground, it will grow back.
Great video Kaye my 1st time trying my hands at celery after I blanch do I water them as normal or will the watering rot the newspaper?
Water as usual. The celery should only be wrapped in the last two weeks, so don't worry about the paper.
With Staples with several layers
thank you mam very nice
When do you take the paper off?
How do I know when its 3 weeks before harvest??
Do it sometime like early May. When stalks are starting to get full.
I’m from asia, and our celery is usually like that thin one. It has very strong fragrant, and bitter. I don’t like it.
But I’m very curious about that thick, crunchy blanched celery.
How does it taste like?
It's a little bitter, but not nearly as bitter as if you don't do this. Which is why they usually trim off the leaves in the store, because they are so bitter.
Similarly, in Trinidad and Tobago this is what our celery looks like. I thought it was a matter of species of celery. Honestly, we just refer to the thin one as local celery and the thick one as American celery. There is definitely a difference in taste. I guess that here in Trinidad and Tobago we have grown used to the taste of the thin one and for many we much prefer that taste. It's essential to our local cuisine. Wow this is interesting.
Great video! Every time I try to grow celery from cuttings they start to rot after I transplant them into the soil! :(( I'm not sure why.
Probably the soil is too soggy. They actually grow well in sandy soil.
I am wondering ... can the cardboard inserts from paper towels could be substituted for the newspaper in the blanching process when wrapping the celery stalks?
Yes, definitely, though they might restrict the celery from getting fat. If you happen to have some of those cardboard rolls from wrapping paper, that might work better. Can also use a milk carton.
Gettin it :)
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Interesting😍
Thanks for watching!
How long do you keep them blanched for?
My celery looks like it’s sprouting is it time to trim
How do you start celery and when do you start it?
Barbara Rickman Depending on where you live you should start it early like January or February at the latest and I just sprinkle seeds they’re very small with a very fine maybe eighth of an inch to quarter of an inch of sifted soil over the top I keep that moist until they sprout and what I did was sprinkle a whole bunch on a big pot and then I transplanted the shoots and a separate pots when they got about 8 inches tall with about six leaves. Eric and I transplanted these about last fall sometime, very slow growing.
So why blanch celery? I've never heard this before. It's my first yr growing it from small plants from the nursery.
As I mentioned, the stalks get tougher and more bitter. You certainly don't have to. The first time I grew a lot of celery I didn't and couldn't figure out why my celery didn't look like what was in the store. Blanching also keeps the stalks closer together and less chance of caterpillars getting down between them at the base. The celery moth can lay eggs on celery. I encourage you to try growing from seed next time which is much more economical. Thanks for watching!
@@Latebloomershow so, I live in Canada and planted my celery end of May. It is Now almost end of july and the stalks with leaves are about knee high. Do I blanch now so that they will be edible ?! Thank you
Nice video. But I think the newspaper is not so health to use. It's better to use a piece of cardboard.
Crlery needs soil not a pot because the root gets very big .
Are your celery plants grown from seed or should I find plants
Seed. I sprinkled a lot of seed into one 5 gallon pot and had dozens of plants, which we transplanted into several cloth pots and this one planter.
I wish you Long live!
You're so beautiful
i hate it when i hear americans use the word dirt when they really mean soil.
soil (to me) means something natural, earthy and life-giving.
dirt seems such a disrespectful word to use, evoking the idea of something contemptible or unclean.
i wonder if the word dirt really means the same thing on each side of the ocean.
I don't feel about it that way. Certainly garden soil that is full of microbes you wouldn't want to call dirt.