Collard Greens!

[Greenthumb18]

Here are some pictures of my collards I still have in the yard. I found a really interesting Portuguese variety of collard I want for next year.

 

[lesa]

Wow- they look like spring! What a wacky weather year, we are having!!

 

[hoodat]

Collards are my favorite cool weather green because they'll go so far into the Summer before the heat gets to them. That's one reason they are a big favorite in the South.

 

[digitS']

Portuguese kale, Mike?

Tronchuda Beira? Kale, Collards, Guy Lon, non-heading cabbage? This family is made up of worthwhile garden greens!

I can just remember having eaten collards . . . I don't quite remember when. Or, even if it was me or Dad who grew them 20 or 30 years ago. Still, they were tasty and even tho' collards seem to be something that thrives on southern heat, kale isn't known for that. I don't know about Tronchuda Beira but I've got the seeds! This will be a 1st time for me to try them .
Steve :tools

 

[Greenthumb18]

Portuguese kale, Mike?

Tronchuda Beira? Kale, Collards, Guy Lon, non-heading cabbage? This family is made up of worthwhile garden greens!

I can just remember having eaten collards . . . I don't quite remember when. Or, even if it was me or Dad who grew them 20 or 30 years ago. Still, they were tasty and even tho' collards seem to be something that thrives on southern heat, kale isn't known for that. I don't know about Tronchuda Beira but I've got the seeds! This will be a 1st time for me to try them .
Steve :tools

You beat me to it, Steve already have seeds . That's the variety I'm trying to get Tronchuda Beira. Its a variety from Portugal, I use collards a lot in soups and that variety is suppose to have tender sweet leaves than the regular collards especially suited for soup. I guess we will both be growing them this year

 

[digitS']

I like kale in soup but this doesn't look like a kale from the pictures . . .

Guy Lon was fun to grow but it only does real well here in the spring, under plastic. It's okay in late summer into the fall in the open garden.

Portugal has mountains. Maybe this Tronchuda Beira can stand variable daily temperatures and low humidity.

Gosh, sometimes I feel so cosmopolitan .

Steve

 

[omar818]

My family is from the South, and we have collard greens a few times a month. They are actually really good, and this year I'm going to try and grow some. Is this a hard vegetable to plant for a novice gardener?

 

[elijahboy]

i have never in my left had a garden or REALLY tried to grow anything YET.

but i did drop a few seeds of a couple things in the ground and one was collard seeds

and boy those things got huge then the dog found a new play toy---no more collards

My family is from the South, and we have collard greens a few times a month. They are actually really good, and this year I'm going to try and grow some. Is this a hard vegetable to plant for a novice gardener?

 

[hoodat]

I grow them pretty much year round. I eat them myself in cool weather but they tend to go bitter in Summer heat. That's when they are used as cut and come again greens for my rabbits. They're especially good for nursing does since they are high in calcium.

 

[annageckos]

My family is from the South, and we have collard greens a few times a month. They are actually really good, and this year I'm going to try and grow some. Is this a hard vegetable to plant for a novice gardener?

It is super easy to grow. I grow them mostly for my bearded dragon. I like them too, but no one else really does. The first year I planted six and it was way too much, they got huge! Last year I did two, and it was still more then I could use. But I don't know if they would be grown differently for people to eat then from my dragon. I just picked the leaves as needed, left them in the ground until early January. They did well all summer. I dried a lot of the leaves in my dehydrator. I saved the stalks for my pet rats and guinea pigs, they like to chew on them. The stalks have to be close to six inches around and are as tall as me (I'm 5'2)