When is the latest planting time for celery?

Celery is a cool-season vegetable, and under cool climate and short-day conditions its vegetative growth is vigorous, yields are high, and quality is good. In most parts of our country, autumn is most suitable for celery growth. Therefore, open-field celery is mainly cultivated in autumn, with the largest area, but celery has strong adaptability, and as long as suitable varieties are selected and some corresponding measures are taken in planting, it can also be cultivated in spring, summer, and winter. At present, a considerable number of regions and cities in our country have achieved a four-crop cultivation pattern of spring, summer, autumn, and winter, basically forming a cultivation system that can produce and supply year-round.

Celery planting time

1. Planting time of spring celery

In the north, seedlings are raised in protected areas from January to March, transplanted to open fields from March to April, and harvested from May to July. In the Yangtze River Basin, March is the suitable sowing period. If sown too early, after the seedlings receive a certain amount of low temperature, they easily pass through the vernalization stage, causing premature bolting; if sown too late, they enter the hot summer later, affecting yield and quality.

2. Planting time of summer celery

After the last frost in spring, seedlings are raised in open fields, transplanted in June to early July, and harvested and marketed from August to September. In the hot and rainy season, summer celery grows poorly, with many dead seedlings and low yields, so the planting area is not large.

3. Planting time of autumn celery

In the north, sowing and seedling raising are from June to early July, transplanting from August to early September, and harvesting from October to November. In the Yangtze River Basin, sowing is from early July to early September, harvesting from October to December; late-sown crops are harvested before bolting in March to April of the following year, winter celery. In the Yangtze River Basin and the south, it can be cultivated in open fields, sown from September to November, and harvested from December to April of the following year. In the north, it can be cultivated in protected areas.

After reading about the planting time of celery, below the editor will briefly introduce the cultivation techniques of celery!