Celery planting method and time:

Celery can be planted in a wide range of time, the warm south can be planted all year round, the north of the spring, summer and fall seasons can be planted, spring celery planting is usually in January to start seedlings, planted in March, harvested in May and June.

Summer celery is usually nursed in April-May, fixed in June-July, and harvested in August-September. Fall celery is planted in June-July seedlings, set in August-September, and harvested in October-November. In the warm south it can be direct seeded in September-October and harvested in December through March-April of the following year.

Celery planting notes

1, choose varieties

Celery a *** divided into dry celery, watercress and watercress three kinds of celery, celery, different kinds of celery, the time of planting, soil, the requirements of the growing environment are not the same, so you have to pick the right varieties according to their local climate and soil environment. If the local irrigation is very inconvenient, you can choose dry celery planting, if the local cold earlier, you can choose the celery varieties with high cold resistance.

2, celery seedling

Celery seedling before the ground to do seedbed, and then in the soaking seed germination. Celery like fertile soil, easy irrigation, cool soil, after selecting a good seedbed to first apply bottom fertilizer, bottom fertilizer can choose fully rotted farmyard manure or compound fertilizer.

And add an appropriate amount of insecticide to kill the bugs in the soil, and then soak the seeds in water for 48 hours, and then take the seeds out to a cool, damp place to germinate, usually 3-4 days after most of the celery seeds have germinated, after the celery germination can be sown.

Celery after sowing spray cans to spray the bed wet to promote celery germination, if it is in the winter seedlings, can be covered with plastic arches after sowing, if it is in the summer seedlings, after sowing to cover the sunscreen to prevent sun exposure.

Celery in the seedling period on the water demand, generally every evening with a sprinkler watering once, such as celery seedlings all out after the celery seedlings should be every other week of fertilizer, pay attention to the fertilizer is not too much, easy to burn celery seedlings.

3, celery planting

Celery in the seedling 50-60 days after the growth to 12-15 centimeters can be planted, before planting to spray insecticides and watering ahead of time, so as not to transplant the celery seedling's root system will be injured. Celery should be planted in clumps of 4-5 plants per clump, 1 centimeter between clumps and 15-25 centimeters between rows.

Before the celery planting and survival, water every morning and evening, and pay attention to observe the survival rate of celery, once the dead seedlings should be timely replenishment. Celery in the survival of the management will be some simple, in the soil drought, can be in the morning and evening when the temperature is low irrigation, pay attention to not big water irrigation, easy to cause celery root rot, rainy season to timely irrigation.

4, pest control

Celery pests and diseases are less, in celery seedling should pay attention to not soil pests bite the root system, so in the seedling and planting to kill the soil first. Celery into the peak growth period, will ground spot blight, spot disease and aphids, timely control with fungicides and insecticides can be.