
Vegetables · Temperate
Celery
Apiaceae
At a glance
- Plant spacing
- 35 cm
- USDA zones
- 4a–9b
- Frost-sensitive
- yes
- Growth duration
- 26 weeks
Which beds suit?
- Sun (prefers)
- full sunAlso okay:partial shade
- Soil (prefers)
- loamyAlso okay:clayraised-bed mix
- Drainage (prefers)
- normalAlso okay:heavy / waterlogged
Seed & start
Pre-culture recommended
Start indoors / cold frame first, transplant into the raised bed later.
Stachi's tip
Celery needs water, water, water — otherwise bitter and stringy. Plant in well-fed soil, ideally in a shallow trench for easier watering.
The plant's year: sowing, transplanting, harvest
Sowing
Transplanting
Harvest
Good neighbours
Limited evidence. This value is not backed by a specialist source — treat it as a pointer.
Avoid these neighbours
Limited evidence. This value is not backed by a specialist source — treat it as a pointer.
Good pre-cultures
Stachi has no specific pre-cultures recorded.
Sources
- LLM-Baseline+gpt-5-review
- LLM-Baseline-Intercrop
- LLM-Baseline-2026-05-09 yieldKg
- LLM-Baseline-2026-05-10 family-zehrer
- LLM-Baseline-2026-05-10 sun-soil-drainage
- Dreschflegel – Anbautipps Stangen- oder Bleichsellerie (https://dreschflegel-saatgut.de/gartenwissen/anbautipps-pflanzenportraits/blatt-und-stielgemuese/stangen-oder-bleichsellerie)
- Dreschflegel – Stangensellerie Roter Stiel (https://dreschflegel-saatgut.de/stangensellerie-roter-stiel)
- Sativa Rheinau – Stangensellerie (Kulturblatt) (https://www.sativa-rheinau.ch/hausgarten/tipps/kulturblaetter/stangensellerie.html)
Where these figures come from
- Timing
- Traditional recommendation. Rarely studied under controlled conditions — treat it as experience, not law.
- Spacing
- Horticulturally established — consistent across the cited standard works.
- Companion planting
- Limited evidence. This value is not backed by a specialist source — treat it as a pointer.
- Crop rotation
- Limited evidence. This value is not backed by a specialist source — treat it as a pointer.
- Yield
- Limited evidence. This value is not backed by a specialist source — treat it as a pointer.
Sources: LLM-Baseline+gpt-5-review · LLM-Baseline-Intercrop · LLM-Baseline-2026-05-09 yieldKg · LLM-Baseline-2026-05-10 family-zehrer · LLM-Baseline-2026-05-10 sun-soil-drainage · Dreschflegel – Anbautipps Stangen- oder Bleichsellerie (https://dreschflegel-saatgut.de/gartenwissen/anbautipps-pflanzenportraits/blatt-und-stielgemuese/stangen-oder-bleichsellerie) · Dreschflegel – Stangensellerie Roter Stiel (https://dreschflegel-saatgut.de/stangensellerie-roter-stiel) · Sativa Rheinau – Stangensellerie (Kulturblatt) (https://www.sativa-rheinau.ch/hausgarten/tipps/kulturblaetter/stangensellerie.html)
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