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northfifeduckling

  • Joined Jan 2009
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another celeriac question
« on: November 22, 2010, 09:43:50 am »
to the expeienced celeriac growers ;D
does it keep growing over the winter? mine are only tennis ball sized and I wondered if they are ready or not... :&>

darkbrowneggs

  • Joined Aug 2010
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Re: another celeriac question
« Reply #1 on: November 22, 2010, 11:03:07 am »
I will be interested in replies to this.  I have only ever managed to grow disappointingly small celariac, so much so, that now I never bother to grow it at all.

all the best
Sue
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Carol Knights

  • Joined Feb 2008
Re: another celeriac question
« Reply #2 on: November 25, 2010, 08:14:40 am »
Hello,
We grow them every year and they are ready about now. We leave them in the ground and dig them up as want them. They don't seem to grow much ( or even at all) over the winter but they need a lot of  water in the growing season to get them to a decent size. We have some beds ( not raised) that are always wetter and we grow them there.
Carol Knights
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darkbrowneggs

  • Joined Aug 2010
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Re: another celeriac question
« Reply #3 on: November 25, 2010, 10:06:03 am »
Thats interesting  i have a wet bed, but I think it is also prone to slugs, and it is somewhat in the shoadow of the polytunnel.  Does that sound as though it might work.  I am on very heavy clay/marl, but have improved the soil structure quite a bit.

Also what size do yours achieve

Many thanks
Sue
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