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Leeks, celeriac and celery will not need fancy flat maneuvers to sprout, just mild warmth, 60-70 degrees, and a long time to grow, three months or so. Placing the pots on a propagation heat mat or on top of plant lights will help them along.
Celery, once large enough to be individually potted, must not be planted out until night-time temperatures remain consistent at 50 degrees or above, else they will bolt
Try the heirloom “Red Celery* for wonderful flavor and red tinged stalks. “King Richard" is my favorite spring grown leek, slim and tender, yet the Scottish heirloom “Musselburgh” is the plump and tasty archetypal “leekie” of Beatrix Potter tales. Good thing the rabbits don't know that!
Although not strictly necessary, I do like to cold—treat alpine strawberry and parsley seeds for a week — they are plants which like cool weather and can be set out in the garden as soon as the soil is workable, usually by the beginning of March. I feel the cold treatment gets them ready to adapt. But don't feel tempted to give the cold shoulder to all your seeds — some will resent it and lay sulking and sleeping below the
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