Celeriac
Vegetable · cool season · also called celery root
When to plant
- Start seeds indoors about 10 weeks before planting out.
- Plant outdoors about 1 week after your average last spring frost.
- Ready to harvest about 110 days after planting out.
Grown for its knobby root. Needs steady moisture all season.
Frost dates depend on where you live. Enter your ZIP code to get exact dates.
Dates by zone: 3a 3b 4a 4b 5a 5b 6a 6b 7a 7b 8a 8b 9a 9b 10a 10b
Growing basics
- Sun
- Part sun (4–6 hours)
- Spacing
- 12 in
- Soil temperature
- At least 50°F
- Time to harvest
- About 110 days
- Containers
- At least 5 gallons
- Plant family
- Carrot family (umbellifers)
- Harvest per plant
- About 1 lb
- Seeds keep
- About 5 years
Companions
Keep apart: Horseradish. Horseradish spreads aggressively. Give it its own spot.
Keep apart: Mint. Mint spreads aggressively into neighbors. Keep it in a pot.
Keep apart: Fennel (bulb). Fennel slows the growth of most garden plants. Grow it on its own.
Keep apart: Sunchoke (Jerusalem artichoke). Sunchokes spread aggressively and shade neighbors.
Grow it well
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