Friday, March 23, 2012

With Gertrude as my witness....

.... I shall never buy celery again.

Well, I probably will, but only because what's in my garden won't be ready for harvesting.

My cousin's wife posted a little tidbitty thing on Pinterest about what to do with that part of the celery that very conveniently holds the stalks together:  stick it in the dirt, and then stand back.

Henry, the chief gardener around here, said, NAH -- it'll never work.

So I handed him that bit of the celery and encouraged him as gently as I could to HUMOR ME.

Whaddya know?   See that green stuff there on the right?  That was from the doohicky celery thing after less than a week.  The white thing on the left is another celery doohicky thing that he put stuck in the dirt just a day or so ago - and it's already sprouting.


For sure and certain, we may never achieve usable stalks like what you get in the produce section, but I'm going to keep you posted.


4 comments:

  1. Awesome! I look forward to how it grows. :-)

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  2. I am going to do this whether it produces stalks - edible or not. I will feel like I am accomplishing something in the gardening arena - which is pretty stale right now.

    Read The American Duchess at your recommenation - well worth the read! Thanks.

    Just out of hospital after gallbladder fiasco - no reading for me til pain pills are a thing of the past.
    ~Mad(elyn) in Alabama

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