Plant Celeriac
T/U'ATKR in the plants immediately after planting and continue with waterings as necessary. The basal knob or root will not swell up if once the plants are checked by dryness, just as in the case of celery. Unlike that vegetable, celeriac does not require earthing up. For that matter, soil that is washed up around the plants during watering, or is worked there during hoeing, should be scraped carefully away. The object is to encourage to the utmost the swelling of the basal knob. One way of doing that is to allow the knob to stand as high out of the ground as possible without the top roots becoming exposed. Growth will be bushier still if when the plants are well established in their new quarters, a fortnightly dose of nitrate of soda is given, half an ounce per square yard.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume 78, Issue 24127, 20 November 1941, Page 17
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143Plant Celeriac New Zealand Herald, Volume 78, Issue 24127, 20 November 1941, Page 17
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