CELERY 1465 
There will be little trouble in keeping the roots of the late celery 
working downward as it is usually dry during July and August 
when the root growth of the late crop is being made, and nature 
causes them to go down for moisture. I have never seen much 
black heart in late celery, but if planted before July fifteenth 
it is apt to be so affected if the fall is dry. 
The seed for a late crop should be sown in the open field from 
April tenth to May tenth. Protect the seed beds with wind breaks 
to keep the cold spring winds from sweeping over the beds, and 
keep them wet until the plants have four leaves. After that they 
will get along very well if the beds are not located on too dry a 
spot. I sow my outdoor seed beds broadcast making the beds five 
feet wide with a path of eighteen inches between. My early 
celery crop is planted in rows eighteen inches apart, plants get five 
inches apart in the row. One should not try to grow early celery 
unless he has good irrigation. 
IRRIGATION AND DRAINAGE 
I use the Skinner system of irrigation and would not be with- 
out it, but a grower should learn how to use it on a small scale 
before trying to grow a large acreage with it. A great many 
growers condemn the system because they do not know how to 
use it. 
Celery requires a large amount of water during the growing 
season, and, unless one can give it the amount needed, he will not 
get the best grade of celery. The land must be drained perfectly. 
T use tile for drainage and have a six-inch tile ditch every seventy- 
five feet, placed thirty inches below the surface. 
FERTILIZER 
Two tons ef high-grade fertilizer 4-7—10 and one-half ton of fish 
tankage per acre is to be recommended for early celery, sowing one 
ton per acre and working it into the land before the crop is 
planted. The remainder of the fertilizer and tankage is sown as 
a side dressing while the crop is growing, making about three 
applications — the last one about three weeks before the crop is 
to be harvested. 
