Underplanting sweetcorn with celery.

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GrannieAnnie

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Re: Underplanting sweetcorn with celery.
« Reply #15 on: June 24, 2010, 22:13 »
What are you going to do with 100 head of celery if they all grow?  I like celery, but not that much!  :)

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Re: Underplanting sweetcorn with celery.
« Reply #16 on: June 24, 2010, 22:25 »
I sowed the first lot of seed, and nothing happened. So I put a second lot in,.............................................and all of them came up. Maybe it's a bit typical of this season.
So I have a shedfull of celery...............and no room on the plot.

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Re: Underplanting sweetcorn with celery.
« Reply #17 on: June 24, 2010, 22:29 »
i would probably give most away, throw a good number of them in the compost bin, feed the rabbit with some and plant ten and look after them well rather than trying to spin so many thirsty plates - design for failure to try to grow all 100 in among sweetcorn.

Pea plants maybe, but not celery.

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Re: Underplanting sweetcorn with celery.
« Reply #18 on: June 24, 2010, 22:38 »


[/quote]It would have been helpful to know this in the first place. ::)
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How? If I plant one celery with sweetcorn will it grow better than 100?

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Re: Underplanting sweetcorn with celery.
« Reply #19 on: June 24, 2010, 22:39 »
What variety of celery is it Andy ?

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Re: Underplanting sweetcorn with celery.
« Reply #20 on: June 24, 2010, 22:43 »


It would have been helpful to know this in the first place. ::)
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How? If I plant one celery with sweetcorn will it grow better than 100?
[/quote]My point was that you didn't mention having a glut of celery and having nothing to lose by planting them where you said.

And yes, one celery with sweetcorn would have much more chance than 100.
Cheese makes everything better.

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Re: Underplanting sweetcorn with celery.
« Reply #21 on: June 24, 2010, 22:46 »
It would be inedible though Ice !

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Re: Underplanting sweetcorn with celery.
« Reply #22 on: June 25, 2010, 22:50 »
What variety of celery is it Andy ?

It is  No 22188 Full White self blanching from The Real Seed Catalogue.

Quote/ Bitter free /Quote.

I obviously need to find somewhere else to plant it but have run out of space.
I may just put it outside my plot in tray's for others to enjoy.

Thanks for the input.  :)

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Re: Underplanting sweetcorn with celery.
« Reply #23 on: June 26, 2010, 13:29 »
This fact sheet from the rhs will tell you about growing them Steve.

http://www.rhs.org.uk/Gardening/Grow-Your-Own/Veg-A-to-Z/Celery

I have a small block of 16 plants closely planted.  When they are large enough you need to pack the outside rows with straw to prevent light getting in and cause them to blanche as you can see in the picture.

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Re: Underplanting sweetcorn with celery.
« Reply #24 on: June 26, 2010, 16:28 »
Thanks for that. Aunt Sally.  :)

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Re: Underplanting sweetcorn with celery.
« Reply #25 on: June 26, 2010, 19:15 »
Going ever so slightly off topic - what veg WOULD be good to underplant sweetcorn? I hadn't thought of doing that until you all mentioned it.

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Re: Underplanting sweetcorn with celery.
« Reply #26 on: June 26, 2010, 23:22 »
Nothing should really be planted under sweetcorm in my opinion as the competition is detrimental to their growth.

You can plant squashes outside of the sweetcorn block and allow them to run between the plants.  They act like a mulch then.

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Re: Underplanting sweetcorn with celery.
« Reply #27 on: June 27, 2010, 08:06 »
Nothing should really be planted under sweetcorm in my opinion as the competition is detrimental to their growth.

You can plant squashes outside of the sweetcorn block and allow them to run between the plants.  They act like a mulch then.

Thanks for that - don't like squashes much so will just leave them as they are - I am amazed that my sweetcorn has grown at all so don't want to do anything that is likely to stop the process!  ;)



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