🌿🥕 Celery Root Maxim Seeds (Apium graveolens var. rapaceum) – 100 Seeds – Flavorful, Large-Rooted Celeriac Variety

Description:

🌿 Latin Name: Apium graveolens var. rapaceum
🥕 Common Name: Celery Root, Celeriac Maxim
📦 Quantity: 100 seeds
🌱 Type: Biennial root vegetable grown for its knobby, aromatic, and flavorful edible root

Celery Root Maxim is a popular celeriac variety known for its large, smooth, and round edible roots with a mild celery flavor. It is perfect for soups, stews, mashes, and roasting. This variety produces sturdy plants with dense foliage and good disease resistance.

🌞 Sowing Time:

• Indoors: Start seeds 8–10 weeks before last frost

• Outdoors: Transplant seedlings after last frost when soil warms

• Germination: Slow germination; 14–21 days at 18–20°C (64–68°F)

🪴 Growing Instructions:

• Sowing Depth: 0.5–1 cm (1/4 inch)

• Spacing: Transplant seedlings 30–45 cm (12–18 inches) apart in rows 45–60 cm (18–24 inches) apart

• Light: Full sun to partial shade

• Watering: Keep soil consistently moist but well-drained

• Fertilizer: High in organic matter; balanced fertilizer recommended

🌱 Soil & Conditions:

• Soil Type: Rich, well-draining loamy soil with plenty of organic matter

• Soil pH: 6.0–7.0

• Climate: Prefers cool growing conditions; frost-sensitive young plants but hardy roots

🧑🌾 Usage:

• Edible root vegetable with a celery-like flavor, used in soups, stews, mashes, and roasting

• Can be eaten raw when finely grated in salads

• Excellent storage vegetable for fall and winter use

🌿 Plant Characteristics:

• Root Size: Large, round, knobby roots weighing up to 1 kg (2.2 lbs)

• Foliage: Dark green, celery-like leaves

• Maturity: 90–120 days from transplanting

• Growth Habit: Robust, upright plant

Each package contains 1 g of Maxim celery seeds which is about 100 Seeds.

Apium graveolens