Salary is one of my favorite juicing ingredients. I recently got a new juicer, but also quite a fun plant to grow.

I have this video from a while back. It's just a short little

clip of pulling a huge celery plant out of the ground that I had grown in a raised bed and it's just

so satisfying to watch. Massive harvest, massive celery plant.

But celery does cause some issues for many gardeners and one of those issues

is the celery is just not really that good tasting.

You know, it's kind of a long growing crop, it's a little bit sensitive, it has some things

that it needs to have happen for it to taste good. So let's go over a couple different issues that you might run into. So the first one is just a lack of nutrition and this is common this kind of harkens back to when I was growing hydroponic cucumbers as an early gardener.

Those just did not have the right amount of nutrients in them they tasted absolutely awful so the same thing can

happen with salary as can with all plants. You really want to make sure

that you are fertilizing correctly. Celery is a pretty heavy feeding plant and

so I would say if you can you can fertilize it maybe once

every three to four weeks with an all around style fertilizer maybe skewing a

little higher on the N and the P and a little bit lower on the K. Now here's one that I've struggled with before.

Salary really wants cool nights and temper it but not super hot days so maybe 50 degrees Fahrenheit at night and

temps that don't get above 80 in the day if it gets above 90 or above 80 even

it can cause that bitterness so I certainly struggled with this with my

salary because over 80 is somewhat common here in San Diego. What you can do to

protect if you do have warm temperatures is pump that mulch level up on the soil, go way way

higher, and then also you can water early and water often.

Because this is another thing that runs into our third reason.

If it does not get enough water it's going to produce a stringy stock, a bitter

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