Planting guide

When to plant celeriac

Knobbly root with a celery flavour; excellent mashed or roasted and keeps well. In Melbourne it goes in Mar–Jan.

Start as: Seedling or Seed started indoors
Ready in: 21–30 wks
Spacing: 25 cm
Depth: 0.3 cm
Sun: Full sun (6+ hours)
Water: Plenty
Effort: Hands-on
Frost-tender: No

When it goes in

● means celeriac can go in that month, ○ means wait. Worked out from each town's real monthly temperatures, not a zone map. Pick your town for the full list for that month.

Australian towns and cities
Town	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
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Brisbane	○	○	○	○	●	●	●	●	●	●	○	○
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Adelaide	○	○	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●
Gold Coast	○	○	○	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	○	○
Newcastle	○	○	○	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	○
Sunshine Coast	○	○	○	○	●	●	●	●	●	○	○	○
Canberra	●	●	●	●	●	○	○	○	●	●	●	●
Central Coast	○	○	○	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	○
Geelong	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●
Wollongong	○	○	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●
Hobart	●	●	●	●	●	○	○	○	●	●	●	●
Townsville	○	○	○	○	○	●	●	●	○	○	○	○
Cairns	○	○	○	○	○	○	●	○	○	○	○	○
Toowoomba	○	○	○	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	○	○
Darwin	○	○	○	○	○	○	○	○	○	○	○	○
Ballarat	●	●	●	●	●	●	○	●	●	●	●	●
Mandurah	○	○	○	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	○
Bendigo	○	○	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●
Launceston	●	●	●	●	●	○	○	○	●	●	●	●
Mackay	○	○	○	○	○	●	●	●	○	○	○	○
Rockhampton	○	○	○	○	○	●	●	●	○	○	○	○
Coffs Harbour	○	○	○	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	○	○
Blue Mountains	●	●	●	●	●	●	○	●	●	●	●	●
Bunbury	○	○	○	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	○
Bundaberg	○	○	○	○	●	●	●	●	●	○	○	○
Alice Springs	○	○	○	○	●	●	●	●	●	○	○	○
Mildura	○	○	○	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	○	○
Port Macquarie	○	○	○	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	○

Around the world
Town	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
Auckland	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●
Wellington	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●
Christchurch	●	●	●	●	●	○	○	○	●	●	●	●
London	○	○	○	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	○	○
Manchester	○	○	○	○	●	●	●	●	●	●	○	○
Edinburgh	○	○	○	○	●	●	●	●	●	●	○	○
Dublin	○	○	○	○	●	●	●	●	●	●	○	○
New York City	○	○	○	●	●	○	○	○	●	●	○	○
Los Angeles	●	●	●	●	●	○	○	○	○	●	●	●
Chicago	○	○	○	●	●	○	○	○	●	●	○	○
Seattle	○	○	○	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	○	○
Austin	●	●	●	●	○	○	○	○	○	○	●	●
Toronto	○	○	○	○	●	●	○	●	●	●	○	○
Vancouver	○	○	○	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	○	○
Cape Town	○	○	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●
Johannesburg	○	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●
Singapore	○	○	○	○	○	○	○	○	○	○	○	○
Mumbai	○	○	○	○	○	○	○	○	○	○	○	○
Paris	○	○	○	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	○	○
Berlin	○	○	○	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	○	○

How to plant celeriac

Sow seed indoors 8 weeks ahead; do not cover, it needs light.
Plant out into rich soil, keeping the crown at soil level.
Keep constantly moist and feed fortnightly.
Lift when the root is fist-sized or larger.

Celeriac varieties

Classic varieties are the reliable, widely grown ones. Adventurous ones are heirlooms, odd colours and rarities.

VeronaClassicstorage · 21–29 wksSmooth, uniform roots that keep well
Giant PragueClassicgiant · heirloom · storage · 21–30 wksOld favourite with big white roots
White AlabasterAdventurousheirloom · storage · 21–29 wksPale, smooth and clean-looking roots
MonarchClassicstorage · 21–29 wksLarge roots with good flavour

Where to buy seeds

Search on The Diggers Club Search on Seeds of Plenty Search on Happy Valley Seeds Search on Amazon

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Good companions

Leek, Bean, Spinach

Celeriac by month

Jan · Feb · Mar · Apr · May · Jun · Jul · Aug · Sep · Oct · Nov · Dec

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