Tango F1 Celery - Apium graveolens

The 'Tango F1' Celery is a herbaceous vegetable plant, standing 40 to 60 cm (16 to 24in) tall, cultivated for its petioles and leaves. It is highly aromatic. It is an exceptional variety. The foliage is compact and vigorous, with a dark green colour. It has broad, fleshy, gutter-shaped ribs (petioles) of a light green colour. The sowing period extends from February to the end of May for a harvest 6 to 7 months later.

It is a descendant of a plant called "ache des marais", native to the Mediterranean. This vegetable plant was not considered a vegetable but a medicinal plant until the Renaissance.

Celery leaves are used as a condiment in soups and casseroles to flavour certain sauces and stuffings. The raw, tenderly sliced ribs can be part of the ingredients in compound salads. Celery possesses numerous virtues: anti-rheumatic, delicious, digestive, and remineralising, and contains vitamins and copper, iron, and iodine.

For example, celery will require a significant supply of well-rotted compost or manure (5 kg per m²) and potash in wood ash.

Harvest: Celeries are harvested by cutting the entire plant at ground level as needed. This celery is sensitive to frost.

Storage: Before the frosts, starting from the end of October, the plants are uprooted with their clods and placed in trenches or stored in a cellar in the sand.

Gardener's tip: Celery is particularly demanding in water and nutrients. Provide an excellent mulch to maintain moisture at the base of the plant and a good supply of organic matter.

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