FREE: 2000ct. Leaf Celery Seeds

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European Cutting Celery is now where celeriac was as recently as five years ago - obscure and largely misunderstood, but evoking curiosity. Unsurprisingly, it's the home gardeners who are leading the way in cutting celery fandom, since it allows them to have homegrown celery flavour without the huge space requirements or hilling and blanching needed for stalk celery.
Leaf or Cutting Celery, also known as Soup Celery was used centuries ago in Europe and the Orient, where its ancestor was known as 'smallage'. It is a very hardy robust plant, closely related to wild celery and can survive temperatures as low as minus 12°C (10°F) and is rarely affected by pests and diseases. This biennial plant is usually grown as an annual and forms a bushy branching plant with glossy leaves and thin fine stems.

Bred for the leaves rather than stalks, Leaf Celery is a doppelganger for flat leaf parsley (albeit a gargantuan mutant parsley) but the very potent and peppery celery aroma gives it away. It is a darker green, with thin, rounded, flexible stalks and aromatic leaves and tastes exactly like regular stalk celery, but with a slightly stronger, herbier taste.
Leaf Celery is the easiest variety of celery to grow. Great for container gardens and small herb gardens, the compact plants grow to around 20 to 25cm (8 to 12in) tall and are very leafy. They are easily grown in containers which can be moved undercover in winter it extend the cropping season.

Leaf Celery is used and taste just like its giant cousins, but is much easier to grow and no blanching is required. It is naturally vigorous, it can be grown as cut and come again salad crop and will grow back beautifully. The leaves are best eaten while tender it can be used like an herb or in cooked dishes as you would stalk celery. Great in dressings or for use in soups, stews and salads, pies and stuffings or any recipe where either celery or parsley is called for.