cab
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 Posted: Fri Apr 15, 05 1:27 pm Post subject: Big reccomendation... CHINESE CELERY |
 
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Last April I planted some Chinese celery seeds, otherwise known as kintsai. I kept thinning it all summer, eating the greens in salads, then I planted some out and left it over winter and autumn. I'm still picking it, but now I'm cutting whole heads of it rather than little bits. It's now threatening to flower, you see.
What was leafy and tasty is now stemmy and tasty, crisp, strongly flavoured, and it has given me absolutely no trouble of any sort as a crop. Seems slower even than normal celery to get going, but once it's away it's a marvellous plant.
Yesterdays salad was the first 'uber-salad' of the year; whole head of chinese celery, two whole chard plants (over wintered, now threatening to flower), lots of sorrel, whole handfulls of chickweed, fennel, lemon balm... All the over-wintered salads that now need using fast, the ones that'll keep us going (another fortnight maybe) till we cut our first lettuce. |
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