Regrowing Celery from your stalk

Here is a fun little gardening project the kids can easily help with. You can use the base of your celery stalk that you would normally throw out or compost, and regrowing more celery from it.  My kids enjoyed watching the roots slowly grow, and adding fresh water to the bowl every day. They checked it every morning to see how big the leaves were getting, then helped me transplant it into the garden.

Start off by cutting the bottom of your bundle of celery, leave maybe 1-2 inches of the "butt" on there. Place it in a bowl of warm water (facing up) in a window seal, or somewhere it can get light. After a few days leaves will start sprouting. The leaves grow very quickly over the first few days, and you will start noticing the roots coming out the bottom as well. I would recommend rotating your dish each day so all angles of the plants are getting sunlight.

Then, you can the celery in your garden, covering everything but the leaves. I am only about 3 weeks in on mine but I read it should take 3 months or so. Then as your celery stalks grow, cut off as much as you need. As long as you leave the root in the ground, your celery will grow back again and again.



Something you might want to know about growing celery successfully. It likes fertile soil, cool temperatures, and constant moisture. It will not tolerate heat and can be hard to transplant.