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🌿🥕 Celery Root Maxim Seeds (Apium graveolens var. rapaceum) – 100 Seeds – Flavorful, Large-Rooted Celeriac Variety
🌿🥕 Celery Root Maxim Seeds (Apium graveolens var. rapaceum) – 100 Seeds – Flavorful, Large-Rooted Celeriac Variety
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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:
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Indoors: Start seeds 8–10 weeks before last frost
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Outdoors: Transplant seedlings after last frost when soil warms
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Germination: Slow germination; 14–21 days at 18–20°C (64–68°F)
🪴 Growing Instructions:
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Sowing Depth: 0.5–1 cm (1/4 inch)
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Spacing: Transplant seedlings 30–45 cm (12–18 inches) apart in rows 45–60 cm (18–24 inches) apart
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Light: Full sun to partial shade
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Watering: Keep soil consistently moist but well-drained
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Fertilizer: High in organic matter; balanced fertilizer recommended
🌱 Soil & Conditions:
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Soil Type: Rich, well-draining loamy soil with plenty of organic matter
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Soil pH: 6.0–7.0
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Climate: Prefers cool growing conditions; frost-sensitive young plants but hardy roots
🧑🌾 Usage:
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Edible root vegetable with a celery-like flavor, used in soups, stews, mashes, and roasting
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Can be eaten raw when finely grated in salads
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Excellent storage vegetable for fall and winter use
🌿 Plant Characteristics:
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Root Size: Large, round, knobby roots weighing up to 1 kg (2.2 lbs)
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Foliage: Dark green, celery-like leaves
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Maturity: 90–120 days from transplanting
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Growth Habit: Robust, upright plant
Each package contains 1 g of Maxim celery seeds which is about 100 Seeds.
Apium graveolens
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