Notes
Leaf celery. 3-row 6 in. Cut-and-come-again bunches.
Cultivars / Herbs
Afina
Cutting celery · Apium graveolens var. secalinum
DTM
60 d
190 d occupancy · moderate
Rows
3
8 in in-row
Density
4.5
plants / bed-ft
Yield
2.4
bunches / bed-ft
Direct $/ft
$7.73
$3.50 / bunch
Propagation
- Method
- Transplant
- Cell size
- 128s
- Nursery lead
- 35 d
- Germination
- 10 d
- Germ temp
- 55°F – 85°F (opt 70°F)
- Seed spacing
- 2 in
Field geometry · 30 in
- Bed width
- 30 in
- Rows / bed
- 3
- In-row
- 8 in
- Seed spacing
- 2 in
- Plants / linear ft
- 4.5
- Plants / 50 ft
- 225
Timeline
- DTM from field
- 60 d
- Holding
- 60 d
- Occupancy
- 190 d
- Multicut
- yes · 6 cuts · 14 d
- Fall photoperiod
- ×1
- Frost hardiness
- Moderate
Yield & revenue
- Sales unit
- bunch
- Units / bed-ft
- 2.4
- Avg unit wt
- 0.2 lb
- Target lb / bed-ft
- 0.4 lb
- Cull rate
- 8%
- Wholesale / Direct
- $2.00 / $3.50
Irrigation
- Drip lines / bed
- 2
- Emitter spacing
- 8 in
- Emitter GPH
- 0.42
- Weekly water
- 0.8 in
- GPH / 50 ft
- 63
- Gal / week · 50 ft
- 62.3
Soil extraction
- Fertility demand
- Light
- N / 100 bed-ft
- 0.5 lb
- P / 100 bed-ft
- 0.18 lb
- K / 100 bed-ft
- 0.7 lb
- N-P-K / 50 ft
- 0.3 / 0.1 / 0.4 lb
- Family
- Lamiaceae
On this farm · 50 ft block
- Season window
- 2026-03-25 → 2026-10-20
- First greenhouse
- 2026-02-18
- First harvest
- 2026-05-24
- Successions that fit
- 1 · every — d
- Bed-ft for 50 lb
- 151 ft
- Seed for 50 ft
- 265 seeds · 225 plants
- Wholesale / Direct · 50 ft
- $220.80 / $386.40
Companions
cabbage · tomato
Avoid
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