Red Celery
Redventure Celery brings a striking visual twist to the vegetable garden with its deep red stalks and contrasting green foliage, delivering the crisp, aromatic celery flavor gardeners crave in a 100-day harvest window. This frost-tolerant cultivar thrives across hardiness zones 3-11, reaching a compact 24 inches tall and spaced just 10 inches apart, making it efficient in beds and containers alike. The stalks stay thin and crunchy when kept consistently moist, and you can harvest individual stems as needed or wait for the entire plant to mature.
Full Sun
High
3-11
24in H x 6in W
Biennial (Grown As Annual)
High
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Red celery isn't common in home gardens, which makes Redventure a real standout. The thin, burgundy stalks carry the full savory punch of traditional celery while the plant adapts well to heat, a quality that sets it apart from celery varieties that bolt or turn bitter in warm seasons. Its compact growth habit and relatively quick turnaround to harvest mean you can succession-plant through much of the growing season.
The stalks work beautifully raw in crudités platters, where their deep red color adds visual interest alongside traditional green varieties. They contribute aromatic depth to soups and stir-fries, hold up well in potato salads, and can be chopped into any dish that calls for fresh celery flavor. The thin stalks are tender enough to enjoy without the stringiness some gardeners find tedious in thicker celery varieties.
Start seeds indoors 8 weeks before your last frost date in a warm spot. Seeds need temperatures between 60 and 75 degrees Fahrenheit to germinate reliably.
Transplant seedlings outdoors after the last frost, spacing them 10 inches apart in rows 18 inches apart. The soil should be evenly moist and rich in organic matter.
Begin harvesting individual stalks once the plant is well established, cutting them from the outside in and leaving the center to continue growing. For a full harvest, cut the entire plant at the soil line around 100 days after transplanting. The stalks are ready when they reach full size and maintain their characteristic crispness.
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