Awesome, thank you!!!

So excited to see our little celery project highlighted here! Thanks so much — the timing couldn't be more perfect to try this experiment in the springtime!

We're doing that right now! We had it in a bowl on the windowsill for a while, then moved it to a little container of potting soil outside.

I have celery and bok choy and green onions on the go.

Sidetracking a little...

I always eat the whole celery - base to leaves. But you guys cut the base off? I've watched cooking programs that do that too. Why would you not eat the base?

thx for this! i discovered only recently this can be done with green onions! brilliant. m

@ the amber dawn this works with bok choy? life is great...bok choy....m

This is awesome. I usually juice the whole stalk of celery but next time I will save one for this project! Thanks for sharing!

I tried this about 6 or so weeks ago and just couldn't get it to work. I had regrowth while it was in the water in my window. But once I planted it into the garden it fizzled and died quickly. I was bummed. Might try it again though, just to see.

i'm notorious for forgetting things, and as a result am growing onions, turnips, potatoes, sweet potatoes green onion, and a fennel bulb that all sprouted in my kitchen (oops). will have to try celery next!

Great idea!!! I had not idea you could do this - running to kitchen now!

Resprouting celery is an awesome idea. Using a bpa-lined can as a growing pot, not so much.

Could this be done hydroponically - Keeping it in water instead of transferring it to soil?

Has anyone had one in the ground long enough to know whether you eventually get normal sized celery stalks or do they just continually produce those cute little sprouts for hobbits?

I have a large pot outside, filled with soil. Every little seed, or extra veggie/fruit pieces, I toss into this pot. Sometimes I have tomatoes growing, other times garlic and onions. Whatever pops up from this 'compost' pot, I water and love.

I've had many successes with this method, some do better than others but everything I've tried so far at least developed some roots. Green onions, cabbage, butter lettuce, celery root, various -choys, garlic, onions, leeks, daikons, various kind of potatoes and carrots. Save those seeds and stalks! They make for a nice second-hand vegetable garden.

I used those cans for planters, too!!

Will it grow into a full celery like you'd purchase?

@Happix2joix2 - I have NEVER had any luck with the seeds from my purchased fruits/vegetables. Maybe if I could afford organic ones, lol, but I guess the ones I get just aren't fertile or something. I don't exactly have a green thumb though. It's not quite black... maybe brown.

it also works with pinapples and onions

If celery attempts have failed, check if the water you're starting with is getting too much sun and may need to be kept in the shade to keep it from getting too warm/hot. I eventually planted the base, it branched out with more leaves than stalks and started to send out small plants on the sides of the base. This took three four months. These I've re-potted and now happily have three.

Garlic suggestion: When my older bulbs started to send out little shoots, I planted 15 of them closely, about an inch apart in a 6/7"pot. Within a couple weeks long green shoots appeared which I use for milder garlic flavored dishes. I've cut them back three times now and they still keep coming...very much the same as the green onions.

I don't see why not. But two concerns would apply, for greener leaves you'd need a good light source and if your using the sun for light, be careful of not cooking the plant. Most hydroponic plantings I've seen have the plant bases set in baskets into pipes with fertilized water running through them. A local farmer here is growing bock choy, several types of lettuce and strawberries that way.

I tried this and it turned to mush in my pot. :( I now have some more celery in the fridge and might try it again, I'm not sure exactly what I did wrong though.

This totally happened to a leek base that I put in the compost pile this year! So great! I will be salvaging the root-end of everything going forward!

@kpies - mush = rot. Rot is generally caused by bacteria + moisture. Rinse the base with a vinegar solution before sprouting (1/2 vinegar, 1/2 water) to get most of the bacteria off and then take it easy on the watering. Only keep the very bottom in the water (and then eventually the soil), not the whole bit. Also the soil should never be soggy wet. Let it drain and give it a few days between waterings. Not sure if it needs water? Stick your finger in the soil up to your 1st or 2nd knuckle. If its damp, give it a rest.

Thanks for this! I will try it, celery has become so ridiculously expensive here, that this would be the way to go. I wonder what else I could grow on my window sill.

I just started some celery - took about a week to see some results. But, I also did some romaine and that just took 3 days before it started putting up some leafy growth. I have some baby bok choy in the fridge that I know is past it's prime so I'm going to try that next.

I'm starting celery as well! Thanks for the tips!
At my website (still working on it :) ) you can check how it's doing as well as other
stuff you can try! :)
http://ideas4teens.webs.com/

Leeks work well too. Carrots will also regrow, but only the tops, not the below-ground part. However, carrot tops are great in salads and braised.

This didn't work for me, either. Got some roots, a couple leaves, but that was it.

I'm doing it right now too. I had it in water for a couple of weeks until roots formed and the old celery rotted off, then I moved it into my vegetable garden, where it seems to be doing well. Now I've just started a leek and it has roots and new green growth. I'll probably move it to the garden in about another week. I have a pineapple top too that I've been growing for almost 2 years. It's big and green and growing but so far no little pineapples yet.