Plant celery (Apium graveolens) is included in the Umbelliferae family, plants are often used as herbs or medicinal plants. Celery leaves are consumed as vegetables and decorate the dish. Seeds are used as flavoring and celery oil extract used as a drug.
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Celery farm is very suitable cultivation in the highlands with an altitude of 1000-1200 meters above sea level. However, it is still tolerant plants grown in the lowlands. These plants are less resistant to high rainfall.
The type of soil that is desired in the cultivation of celery is loose soil and contains lots of organic matter. These plants grow well in soil acidity pH 5.5-6.5. If the soil is too acidic lime or dolomite should add.
How to grow celery
There are two ways to grow celery ie generative (from seed) and vegetative propagation (of tillers). Propagation generative usually applied to large-scale farming or commercial celery. For such yard-scale cultivation in pots or polybags, vegetative propagation is easier to do.
Propagation generative dmulai to sow the first seeds. Once the seeds grow into seedlings, the new transplanted into pots or polybags. Here are the steps:
Before sowing seeds, soak it first in warm water (50-60 degrees Celsius) for 1 hour.
Prepare a seedbed in the form of beds or seedling tray. Seedling media consists of a mixture of soil and compost that has been sifted with a ratio of 2: 1. Read how to create a media hotbed.
Provide shade with clear plastic on nursery beds may protect plants from direct rain running water and sun.
Create a kerf groove on the beds as deep as 0.5 cm at a distance of 10-20 cm between the grooves. Sprinkle the seeds into the furrow and cover lightly with soil and flush to retain moisture.
Flush with water every morning or afternoon to retain moisture nursery media. Media should not be too wet and not too until dryness.
Seedlings ready to be transferred to pots or polybags after 1 month or after the 3-4 leaf growth.
Vegetative propagation is usually done if we had had a previous celery plants. Perbanyakannya way, grab a clump of seedlings contained in celery plants that already exist. Then move to a new pot or polybag. Furthermore, the plant can be propagated from a clump growing celery.
Once the seedlings are ready to remove, prepare a medium-size pots or polybags. Fill the planting medium consisting of a mixture of soil, compost and rice husk with a ratio of 1: 1: 1. Sift terlabih first of these materials. The use of rice husk goal for planting medium has good porosity and light weight so that the media be easily moved pots or polybags.
If no husk can be replaced with rice husk, rice straw or sawdust. Be careful in making planting medium, use materials that are free of pests and diseases. Please read how to make a planting medium.
