CELERY
Its Soil Requirements
On a moist soil rich in humus the popular celery crop is grown with le-st trouble. Its quality and appearance depend on the sticks being clean and well blanched. Where a variety of the excellent golden self-blanching type is grown this is a comparatively easy matter, even when six or eight rows are grown close together. These and other types may be 'blanched by placing boards of sufficient width on edge down beside each row or multiple row. In fact, any method which excludes the light, without pressing so closely as to interfere with the growth, is effective. In dealing with very large areas the rows may be carefully moulded with soil from the alleys. This treatment is best given when the usual growth is almost completed. Trimming, water, liquid manure or any other necessary attention should be given just before moulding up for blanching, which may take from three to six weeks to accomplish.
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Dominion, Volume 30, Issue 130, 26 February 1937, Page 20
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159CELERY Dominion, Volume 30, Issue 130, 26 February 1937, Page 20
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