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9 of the Best Celery Varieties to Grow at Home
06.06.2023 - 21:34 / gardenerspath.com / Laura Ojeda Melchor
9 of the Best Celery Cultivars for Your GardenHomegrown celery, Apium graveolens, is delicious. It’s nothing like the stringy, tasteless stalks you buy in the grocery store. But did you know there are a number of different cultivars available?
I wouldn’t blame someone for thinking that there are only one or two varieties of celery out there. I mean, they all look and taste the same, right?
Maybe not.
While each of the nine cultivars described below has that unmistakable savory flavor we associate with this vegetable, there are some differences between them.
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There are heirloom types that have been grown for over a century, and hybrid varieties that have been bred to thrive in warmer climates or for improved disease resistance. Some are “self-blanching” and others require blanching in the garden if you want tender, mild-tasting stalks.
They can vary in color, too. From dark green to light, yellowish stalks – and there are even those with purple stalks!
A. graveolens is a member of the carrot, Apiaceae (or Umbelliferae), family and is most often grown as an annual in USDA Hardiness Zones 4-10.
Most cultivars do well in all of these growing zones, but the varieties that I’ve mentioned below as being better suited to warmer temperatures are more likely to thrive in Zones 8, 9, and 10.
Ready to find the perfect cultivar for your vegetable garden?
Let’s go!
Here’s what I’ll cover:
1. ConquistadorIf you need a cultivar that’ll march right through the growing season and produce early stalks, try ‘Conquistador.’
This hybrid of ‘Pascal’ matures in just 80 days in warmer areas, so it’s an excellent plant for the impatient gardeners
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