[teenyelliott]

For about a week, I have been experimenting with growing celery from the bottom that was cut off of a bunch I bought at the store. Normally I put those scraps in a freezer bag to make celery soup or stock later, but this time I wanted to see what would happen if I tried to grow more from the bottom. Anyway, here is the third update...

Growing Celery From Scraps, Update #3

[teenyelliott]

Separate bananas when you bring them home; they will not ripen, and go bad, as quickly as they do when left in a bunch.

[MHGinTN]

Waste not, want not ... as Granny would tell us.

I thought I was strange to do much like what you're doing. I buy a bunch of celery and extract stalks from the outer edge but leave the leafy center in tact and the rootlet bottom. Then when the last of the stalks is used, the leafy portion rising up in the center from the rootlet is placed on wet paper towels and set in a sunny window. I've found that the leafy portion grows much faster if the rootlet is not in direct sunlight, as in a brown glass or pottery container. I have a transfer pot where the rooting leafy portion goes when the root's show at the edge of the wet paper towels. DO NOT LET THE TOWELS DRY OUT when rooting.