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Celery Seeds, Ventura, celery in the garden
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Celery Seeds, Ventura, celery in the garden

Celery Seeds, Living Web Ventura

$4.50

Living Web Ventura Celery (Apium graveolens): Originally ‘Ventura,’ but it has been growing naturalized in a greenhouse in Mills River, NC, for around a decade! At this point, it shows all the same diversity you would expect from a landrace, and it has slightly smaller stalks than the average Ventura plant. The plants are vigorous, productive, and quite cold-hardy. Freshly picked stalks have a delicious and intense flavor. Great with dips and fantastic as a base for soups and stocks. 

Weight (avg. seeds): 0.5 g (1230 avg. seeds per packet)

Seed Grower: Patryk Battle, Sparkling Earth Farm, Celo, NC

USA Shipping Only | $5 Flat Rate or FREE Shipping on Orders over $45 | Our collective members pack and ship the seeds together. First Ship Date, Feb 15, 2026.

Living Web Ventura Celery (Apium graveolens): Originally ‘Ventura,’ but it has been growing naturalized in a greenhouse in Mills River, NC, for around a decade! At this point, it shows all the same diversity you would expect from a landrace, and it has slightly smaller stalks than the average Ventura plant. The plants are vigorous, productive, and quite cold-hardy. Freshly picked stalks have a delicious and intense flavor. Great with dips and fantastic as a base for soups and stocks. 

Weight (avg. seeds): 0.5 g (1230 avg. seeds per packet)

Seed Grower: Patryk Battle, Sparkling Earth Farm, Celo, NC

USA Shipping Only | $5 Flat Rate or FREE Shipping on Orders over $45 | Our collective members pack and ship the seeds together. First Ship Date, Feb 15, 2026.

Pat Battle has been growing this celery for over a decade. The seeds were originally ‘Ventura’, but they have been growing naturalized (self-seeding) in a greenhouse in Mills River, North Carolina! Celery can sometimes be slow to germinate and grow, but these plants are vigorous, productive, and quite cold-hardy.

Pat Battle says, “In my experience, if you grow the Living Web Farms Ventura as if you’re trying to grow great celery, you can get nice big stalks. I think it has smaller stalks when it is volunteering, but it performs like any other celery if it’s given the nutrition and water that celery loves. In the photo gallery, the picture of the celery on top of the worm box is from plants that had no water whatsoever except for what it could get from the ground. I’m amazed it even germinated in a greenhouse that was never watered that year! The picture of the celery growing next to the strawberry bed shows pretty regular-sized celery, at least for the celery I’ve managed to grow. Those stalks were grown by us and were given adequate nutrition and irrigation.”

Unlike celery that you may buy in the store, homegrown celery can be harvested a few stalks at a time. Breaking off the outer stalks allows for continual growth from the center, meaning you can be harvesting homegrown celery for the whole season! 

“When my turkeys escaped and raided my home garden, the celery was the first thing they ate,” says Chris Smith. “Turkey’s know high quality celery when they see it!”

Patryk Battle, Sparkling Earth Farm, Celo, NC
Patryk Battle is a teacher, mentor, seed saver, gardener, and is the director of a downsized, but still actively educating, Living Web Farms. He deems full-throttle support of regional seed sovereignty a great "retirement" project.