Celery - C'est la Vie

Celery Rosetta

I have been trying to grow a decent celeriac root for about a decade now, with limited success. Rather than accept defeat I have doubled my trouble. This is my second year of attempting to grow celery too!

Last year I grew Victoria, a self blanching F1 hybrid. They were rather straggly an not big enough for kitchen use.  Then I heard that Loretta is the go to celery variety for allotmenteers. (It is also self blanching)  Above is the first picked plant.  It is heading for a minestrone soup pan. Not really a challenge to the shop bought product, it is nevertheless a source of some pride. I grew it close together, next to the celeriac, giving both copious amounts of water.  The plants have turned yellow, leaves included, so clearly there is a nutritional issue still to be address.  Boron deficiency? I have ordered a tonic, and next year I will use a top dressing mix that contains boron.  Yes, there will be a next year for celery. 

 The neighbouring celeriac has been as bad as ever with 5 out of nine plants bolting.  But then again the soil amendment for the celery might work for the celeriac too....

Now how big is the celery? This gives a sense of scale. I do have very big feet BTW.