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Chinese Celery
Apium graveolens
Chinese Celery is the leaf-cropped form of ordinary celery, grown for concentrated savoury leaf instead of a thick stalk or a swollen root - most palates find it too strong to eat raw on its own, so it goes into soups, stocks and seasoning, or is diluted through a mixed salad. Cutting the outer leaves and leaving the crown gives repeat harvest off one plant rather than a single lifting, and surplus or bolted leaf makes a protein-rich feed for chickens. It is a cool-season crop that bolts to seed if a young plant hits a cold snap, and its real limit is summer heat rather than winter cold. Planted through a brassica bed it also repels cabbage white butterflies from its neighbors.
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Growing profile
- Sun
- Full Sun · Partial Sun
- USDA zone
- USDA 3–9
- Soil
- Sand · Loam
- Moisture
- Well-Drained · Moist
Vertical layer
Herbaceous- Soil pH
- 6–8
- Plant type
- Biennial
- Mature height
- 18–36 in
- Mature spread
- 12–18 in
- Plant spacing
- 9–12 in
- Root type
- Fibrous-shallow
- Spread pattern
- Seed
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