Easy to grow. Yes they appear very much alike when young so if you don't know what you have then you likely won't know until the stalks begin to form.

How to grow celeriac

I believe I am the 'someone here' who intimated that Celeriac is tricky. Preppy's other post

I generally agree with every word digdirt2 says but I do truly believe that saying Celeriac is 'easy' to grow is misleading, especially for a relatively new gardener. Maybe conditions in the US are different. Maybe the routine use of irrigation over there helps. But I have always struggled with it. It needs starting indoors, constant moisture levels, sun and rich living. Not easy imo. The link you gave Dig, actually classifies it as 'Moderately difficult' under the heading 'Ease-of-care'.

BTW preppy's original plant (pictured in another post) has clearly bolted - that is why it looks thin.)

Good point Floral. Growing conditions will definitely affect ease of growth. So does experience. I don't have any problems growing celeriac but then I use drip irrigation too.

I hadn't seen the photo and that looks like celery to me, celery that has already bolted. So at this point it doesn't really matter which it is.

Dave

floral_uk z.8/9 SW UK, when you grow celeriac, do some of them grow into the plant that i had in the picture?

mine doesn't look like regular celery, it looks like the "chinese celery" which has thinner stalks.

preppystud, I stopped growing Celeriac a while ago as I don't use very many each winter and I could get better quality from my local market gardener. The plant in your picture, could be Celery or Celeriac. Yours doesn't look like 'regular celery' because it is growing in poor conditions and is stunted as well as bolted, so it is not exhibiting typical features. Celery, Celeriac and Chinese Celery are all variants of the same species, so telling the plants apart as seedlings or as bolted plants is not really possible. Your plant, while not inedible, is past being of much use in the kitchen so its precise identity, as digdirt2 points out, doesn't seem that important.

when your celery plant grows out of control and goes to bolt , can you cut it down to the stems ?? and will it grow back ?? or do you have to pull it out and start a new one .

I grow my celery in pots so I can control the climate if needed. If too many nights in a row if th temp is too low they com in the garag or house At night. Same if it's too hot too many days in a row. It's also easier to keep the, well fed. Just mulch with 2 inches of straw to keep soil well waterd

Carol, I've never experienced bolting with celery (yet). But I do regrow the same plant from year to year. I pull stalks off as I need them throughout the year and then assume that the plant is dying off over the winter. But I guess my front porch is a wonderful place so even with temperatures below 10F last winter my celery lived. And has come back.

I feel like that's a really lengthy way of saying, I bet if you cut it off it will regrow.