Do collards not make it thru the summer?
I had a collards relative, Portuguese kale, last year. We slowly turned those plants into what looked like little palm trees
. The curly kale also ends up looking like that. Cut-&-come-again continues right thru the growing season.
These are all non-heading cabbages and I was pleased that I tried the Portuguese kale. It performed about the way
I'd hoped the collards would when I "tried" to grow them. Then, I forgot to order 2013 seed . . . I will look carefully at the seed racks the next time I visit the garden center. They may have put it with the herbs or "Asian greens" because I didn't see it with the kale seed.
Guy Lon (also spelled Kailaan) or Chinese kale really is in that same cabbage/kale/collards family. It has and it hasn't done well for me late. One thing that you have to be willing to do with quite a few Asian greens is eat the flowering shoots. You can treat them as broccoli. This is true also with bok choy - except bok choy is in the turnip family. It is a matter of timing and, since these things can be eaten raw, you can test your preferences in the garden
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Some of my greens growing migrates into what I call "the shady corner" during the summer. It is actually a separate garden, a triangle, about 30 yards from the little veggie garden. Beginning about 10:30, the shade from evergreens begin to move across that ground. It is pretty much in shadow from there on out. It does fairly well.
Steve
Please oh please relate that conversation as best as you can. I work at a landfill and am surrounded by folks who like to preach global warming and such. 
