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August 20, 1926
The Ronan Pioneer
Ronan, Lake County, Montana
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Describes summer blanching techniques for early-planted celery using planks, roofing strips, or tiles to exclude light, allowing bleaching in warm weather before October soil banking. Takes 10-14 days; planks movable for ongoing supply.
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Method for Summer Blanching of Celery
Inch Planks Made Use of to Exclude Light.
Early planted celery will be developed to the point where it is ready to bleach by the middle to the latter part of August. Because it is proper to bank up the plants with soil in late October many folks make the mistake of trying to blanch the plants in the same way when the weather is warm.
Early maturing celery can be blanched by placing inch planks that are 12 to 16 inches wide on edge on either side of the row. The boards can be held in position by tacking a small strip across either end. The boards must be drawn as close together as possible so as to exclude the light. This may leave from two inches to one foot of the tops above the planks.
Some growers use 12-inch strips of roofing that are stood on edge on either side of the row and that are held together at the top by pieces of No. 12 and 14 wire that have been fashioned somewhat like a hairpin.
Folks that have only a few plants for early blanching, and who have a few pieces of 4-inch diameter tile can do the job nicely by setting one section of the tile carefully on end over each plant. Extremely hot weather will sometimes cook the plants within the tile, although this happens but seldom.
It takes about ten days or two weeks to blanch celery after the tile or boards are put in place. For home use with planks ten feet long, as soon as the celery is used at one end of the row the planks may be moved along the row so that a constant supply is available.
Inch Planks Made Use of to Exclude Light.
Early planted celery will be developed to the point where it is ready to bleach by the middle to the latter part of August. Because it is proper to bank up the plants with soil in late October many folks make the mistake of trying to blanch the plants in the same way when the weather is warm.
Early maturing celery can be blanched by placing inch planks that are 12 to 16 inches wide on edge on either side of the row. The boards can be held in position by tacking a small strip across either end. The boards must be drawn as close together as possible so as to exclude the light. This may leave from two inches to one foot of the tops above the planks.
Some growers use 12-inch strips of roofing that are stood on edge on either side of the row and that are held together at the top by pieces of No. 12 and 14 wire that have been fashioned somewhat like a hairpin.
Folks that have only a few plants for early blanching, and who have a few pieces of 4-inch diameter tile can do the job nicely by setting one section of the tile carefully on end over each plant. Extremely hot weather will sometimes cook the plants within the tile, although this happens but seldom.
It takes about ten days or two weeks to blanch celery after the tile or boards are put in place. For home use with planks ten feet long, as soon as the celery is used at one end of the row the planks may be moved along the row so that a constant supply is available.
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Agriculture
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Celery Blanching
Summer Method
Planks
Roofing Strips
Tile Sections
Farming Technique
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Early planted celery is ready to bleach by mid to late August. Methods include using inch planks 12-16 inches wide on edge on either side of the row to exclude light, held by strips; 12-inch roofing strips held by wire hairpins; or 4-inch diameter tile sections over each plant. Blanching takes 10 days to two weeks. Planks can be moved along the row for continuous supply.