[rowlandwells]

I'm going to have another go at growing celery this year although we managed to get some celery last year it wasn't that great so i thought take a look on youtube I mite get a few tips and i found amongst others Monty
 D growing celery and it was said  Celery needs to be set quite close to make it blanch ?

so i thought when i grow celery in our raised beds this year I'm putting some  black plastic sheeting  round the bed to see if this would encourage the celery to blanch better just a thought mite work then on the other hand mite not anyway I'm going to give it a try any comments on this topic most welcome

[Christine]

Needs loadsa water all the time. It's basically nearly but not quite a bog plant.

[New shoot]

I grew some last year in troughs which had reservoirs in the base.  They were a self blanching type and did really well.

It depends how much you want, but I found 2 troughs with 4 plants in each gave us plenty.  I just pulled sticks from the outsides of the plants when I needed them over summer and autumn. 

I didn’t have room for them in the greenhouse over winter, so I picked the lot and dried it in the dehydrator.  Another idea I saw was to cook chopped onion, celery and carrot together and freeze it in small batches for starting stews and soups over winter.  I didn’t try that one, but I might do this year.  I got a load of mushrooms free from work as the labels were incorrect, so they were given to staff.  I chopped them up and fried them with onion and garlic, then froze in batches.  They have been great to have on hand 

[rowlandwells]

that sounds like a good idea to try new shoot although we did have better results from growing celeriac and its kept well to