How to grow celery from seed part 5 - planting out and sowing more UK

It's time now to get our celery planted and actually they're looking really good and the roots are coming out the bottom. This is because I have placed them on some compost so it's encouraged the roots out the bottom but they're doing very well and definitely want to get into the ground now before they become root bound. They grew really quick, actually quicker than I usually find they do and the ones in soil blocks look like this. Soil blocks for some reason with most plants just do better and grow faster so although these look really good they're just a little bit more spidery, I guess you could say. Some of the leaves are coming out sideways so some of the smaller leaves I'm going to remove and we want to do that as they grow as well. This is going to encourage new growth of the thicker stems. These were our early sowings so they are going to be planted into the polytunnel and they're actually going to be planted amongst my tomatoes because the shade of the tomatoes is going to help keep the soil damp and give them an environment that they're happier in because these are bog plants. Do look back at video one if you haven't already and it'll give you lots more information. Now is also the time to sow more of these seeds. They do need light to germinate so do make sure that you check out video two which is our sowing video if you haven't done so already. If you want to use the same variety as we're using here this is Utah Tall and it's available from Tamar Organics which we have a discount code available via our newsletter. If you'd like to sign up for that then just comment in the newsletter and I'll send you over the link. So if you do have any sort of irrigation system then it is great to plant them right next to that if you can. We're just going to dig a little bit of a hole and plant them level with where they were in the compost previously. If you've got any roots that are root bound just loosen them up and we're just going to place them into the ground and firm that down. As these tomatoes in the back grow up they're going to offer some shade. These irrigation and also the amount of water that the tomatoes require will make sure that these are really well watered and kept damp at all times. That's all of them planted out now and watered in really well. If you're not spacing them amongst other things then the spacing for these is going to be around a foot. If we do happen to have a late frost then all I'll be doing is covering these plants with fleece just to make sure that they don't get too much stress which could cause them to run to seed too quickly and then we'll next have a look at these when we're ready to start harvesting some of the outside stems. Now we've got these planted the next thing that we need to think about is making sure that they are really well watered as they establish. The ones in the polytunnel and the earlier sowings are going to be ready much sooner. I would encourage you to do a second sowing to start outside so you've got a succession of these and plenty of plants to last you and then if you do plant a couple of those later sowings in an undercover space they'll also overwinter really well for you as well.