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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:

  • 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

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