Homegrown: Celery
It’s low in calories and rich in minerals!
Celery is a stock vegetable, star turn and herb, all in one stalk; even the seeds are edible, although they need a hot climate to mature successfully. Low in calories and rich in Vitamin C, useful minerals and fibre, cultivated celery is an ancestor of the bitter-tasting wild celery, also known as smallage.
Celery is for autumn harvest, latest October, but can be stored well in the cold department of your fridge. Trench celery, grown in deep soil for protection, can last outside all winter. Naturally green, once the stalks are earthed up and protected from sunlight, they remain white, becoming less bitter and sweeter in taste.