RED FEATHERLEAF CELERY

Apium graveolens

ORGANIC

Bred and selected by Frank Morton at Wild Garden Seeds. An improvement of their popular Redpar cutting celery, itself a cross of Redventure and ‘Parcel', which is just a traditional name for a selection of wild celery, which we know as “cutting celery", and which Europeans tend to call “soup celery". This type of celery is much easier to grow in gardens and more flavorful than the celery found at the grocery store.

These plants produce tons of tender blushed stems and have intense aromatic flavor. May be sown and grown in a container with ease. We have had a few plants in a nursery pot on the windowsill for almost a year and they look great after repeated harvests and occasional neglect. Broad shallow containers can host several plants. Harvest by the handful as you would parsley or cilantro. Chop tender stems for soup and salad. Vigorous and suitable for containers and field production.

There is some diversity among plants with regard to color and form, but for the most part the narrow stems are blushed with beautiful deep dark pink and leaves green and ruffled. If you want to grow a cutting celery primarily for color, consider Chinese Pink, which is absolutely over the top bananas PINK. Of all the cutting celeries we currently grow and offer, we are loving Red Featherleaf the most.

Packet contains at least 300 seeds.