Yerington times. [volume] (Yerington, Nev.) 1907-1932, 1912-10-26
FOR GROWING CELERY.
Crop Requires Intensive and Pains
taking Culture.

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detailed directions for growing celery.
This crop requires a most intensive
and painstaking culture, a very rich
soil, the Nest surface tillage and care
full attention to the care Of the young
plants before setting in the field
Celery is always transplaned crop.
The seeds are small and terminate
slowly and the seedlings are very del
icate An ounce of seed should pro
duce about 1000 good plants. This
allows for several times that amount
of loss due to poor termination and
weak seedlings. One pound OF celery
seed should give enough strong plants
To set four acres.
In the production OF these plants, IT
is necessary TO have well prepared
bed with perfect surface filth and it
should retain moisture to the top
Preferably It should be protected from
hot and drying winds Some person,
prefer to have the seed bed partially
shaded with Hath or cheese cloth
shades II the shading is too dense.
the plants are likely to be soft and
lender when taken to the field and
are killed by sunscald. II is advi ,ablc
To have a shade which can tc easily
removed from the bel except ON the
very bright, drying day, Sometimes
the bed IS covered with board. OF
straw in order to maintain the moist
urc until termination ha, taken place.
This may be advisable Ii the cover
ing is left too long the plants m..y
make very weak and splindiniS Growth
and are consequently worthless. II
this covering is used, it i generallv
advisable to remove it gradually A.
the plants terminate
1t Is essential that the seed bed be
so located that il can be watcrcd ever?
evening if necessary Care must be
exercised that the watering is not SO
heavy that it packs or puddlcs the
soil
In order to secure stalky plauts,
they should be transplantcd once
or twice in the seed bed. or they may
be thinncd until they finally stand two
OF. three inches apart. The labor Of
tranSplanting is so great that many
growers prefer to secure sta,ky plants
by thinning and then shcaring off the
remainder OF the plants when they
have become too tall. The plants may
be cut back one third or one-half their
growth by shears or sickle.
Celery Is grown aS short season
crop. occupying land only part OF the
season Therefore it may follow such
a crop As very early peas, early cab
bages, radshes or bunch beets. 1t is
also frequently handled as compan-
ION crop, growing two or three rows
of onions between the rows OF celery
In this case transplanted onions are
used, which will mature in time to use
the space for bleaching the celery
\ thorough, shallow surface tillage
should be maintained throughout the
growing season. accompanied by sufii-
cient irrigation to keep up continual
thrifty growth II the plants are al
lowed to be checked any time in their
growth. even from the seed bed stage
to the time they are half grown, diff
Guilty will likely be encountered in he
plants going to seed Very early eel
cry may be set in the field any time
as soon as the soil can DC worked
However. here is very little demand
for such an early crop. and the cost
OF production is considerable. The
main crop for fall and winter con
sumption is planed in the field from
the middle OF June to the middle of
July.
Celery must be crisp and tender and
well blanched to be fit for use, Blanch
ing is accomplished by excluding the
light. There are two common meth
DDS of blanching celery in vogue AT
the present day; by the use of boards
dhG Janklng up the earth. fldhcn7
ing by means of boards is employed
only for the carly and summer celery
because protection from the frost
must be supplied to the celery which
remains in the field after the first OF
October, and the boards usually do
lot afford special protection. Use
boqrds one foot wide and one inch
thick and about II to IA feet long.
ines, boards are set on edge close
againS the crown OF Tie plant, one on
either SIDE of the row. and the tops
are tipped together so they. are only
two or threc inches apart, or until
they crowd against Che plants. The
boards are held in this position by
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