My dad, who was a fisherman, used to say he was 'filleting' the collard greens by folding them in half lengthwise and cutting out the spine. Then sliced them up for cooking. Soooo good!!
@italiana626sc I do fillet my kale, and my dogs like the bones! Just one each, cuz I don’t want too much oxalate in their food, but figure there must be something good for them in it since even the picky eater likes them.😊
I love collards, but my favorite way to cook them is a quick pan saute or wilt. Bacon grease, a tad of water for steam, and a little salt and pepper. Of course top them with a little pepper vinegar! I like them to still have some life in them, not cooked down in a simmer pot.
I never liked collards until I grew my own. I only grew them because they were in a mixed 6 pack I bought with other fall veggies. When the one plant I grew was mature and I tasted it I was totally surprised by how sweet and good it was! Now they are on my 'must plant' list for fall crops. In addition to cooking them the way you mentioned, I like them as a sandwich wrap in place of tortillas or flatbread. I just cut off the stem and stiff part near the stem and use the rest of those giant leaves to wrap up whatever sammy fillings I want.
Yum! From North Carolina I love collards. After you eat all the collards from the stalks, wait until spring and then you get to eat collards sprouts, the best eating ever. ❤️🙏
Oh to have a garden full of beautiful greens in the WINTER..... up here in the winter desert... I look at my empty and snow covered garden and long for the future days of sunshine and green vegetables!
Oh I so agree, it was -7 F last night, 5 F now at 10:45 am and everything is covered in a blanket of snow. Makes me dream of moving south for a longer growing season…..but spring will come 😊
My garden is booming in Ft Perce Fla,6 relatively new collard plants harvest first time yesterday, Bacon, onion, garlic, then better than bullion chicken stock, teaspoon sugar, and few drops apple cider vinegar cooked over 45 minutes. Everybody loved them with prime rib and mashed potato. First time really eating proper collards one of the best things we ever made. Hooked for life.
Collards are by far my favorite greens and that why it's the only one I grow. I've had collards laugh at temps in the low teen without being covered. I grow enough collards to be able to eat them twice a week all year long. Cooked collards in quart freezer bags will last 9 months easily without losing flavor or texture. I actually just ate my last bag from the spring this week, and have put up 8 new bags from my harvest earlier this month. Next harvest should be around the 1st of the year.
Love collards! Aside from leaving the rib/stems on, everything else you said goes: bacon/bacon grease, chicken broth, vinegar, sugar, hot sauce on mine, not on my husband's. I have some little bitty transplants started very late, so I don't know if I can plant them out this year. It was an afterthought, but I'll do better at planning next time.
Thank you for telling us how to cook them! This Yankee girl had them once in a restaurant and loved them. I grew some but didn't know how to properly cook them. Thank you!
I'm up here in Western New York, and I see my parsley survives the snow, but I don't know about collards. You definitely convinced me to plant them in the spring, though.
I have use them raw to do veggie roll ups you can put avocado, onion, radish, cucumber, what ever you like roll ups and it’s delicious. And as you say keeps you full for a long time… I have not grown them however I will start winter garden is the way to go in the desert as you dont have all the bugs. summer is hard in the low desert… thank you for the information.
I found a variety of collards that adapted to the Sahara desert! They grow all summer! They are called Sahara collards. I love regular collards with cornbread, black eyed peas, a full meal. We use apple cider vinegar and bacon grease with the collards along with chopped onion and cooked in mild chicken broth, yummy! We got one that we left alone and it came back for the third year. We roll them up like you do. We cut off the naked stems.
My collards grow right through the winter....and mine made it through that super cold winter too. I have to confess, I have never really cared for collard greens, and don't eat them. I grow them for reason # 6 - they make a great fertilizer since they are high in nitrogen.
Yes. Yes. Yes! And they are SO beautiful and green in The depths of the winter months. They are like massive green ‘flowers’ in the garden! I can see our patch actually in a flower bed as I look down a path from our back door. Nearer by are the white pansies, wood chard and purple kale adding color to the winter beds! When we want a different flavor than our traditional Southern method, I stir fry/wilt them with some think apple slices, a little apple cider vinegar, a little brown sugar and or a spoon full or two of apple juice concentrate or juice… all depends on what I have on hand. Add some birds eye pepper sauce to any way you cook ‘em and yummy!
I agree about collards, and I am still harvesting from mine that I planted from seed last spring! I couldn't believe they survived the wicked hot Florida summer looking like they were done, I had harvested everything out of the plot that I wanted and left that plot go to weeds because I had some pressing projects that kept me away from the garden plot, then to my great surprise I was checking my plots to prepare for winter gardening and I saw that my collards and a couple kale plants had sprang back to life making larger leaves than they had in the spring! I had one 35' row of mixture of collards and kale that have given me a lot of delicious eating this year and they are still going strong!
Greens are about the only thing I can grow successfully in my backyard garden in winter. The sun gets lower on the horizon, and I just don’t get enough direct sun for much else, but my greens will still do well. It’s almost Christmas and I’ve harvested a mess of mustard and about to cut some collards for Christmas dinner. It’s Christmas so I have to share, but I could eat the whole pot. 😁
Collard greens look like a true gift in the garden. I haven’t grown them yet, but I heard they are easy to grow, packed with nutrition! I am going to be adding some to my container garden beds! 🥬❤️
We grow Alabama blue collards & love them. For a variety dish, i will sometimes cut a few leaves like you do, with the leaves rolled up into small strips. These I cook til tender. I'll crumble up a package of Maruchan noodles into a frypan with olive oil ~2 tbsp seasoned with chicken boullion & a cup or more water. Add the collards as the noodles soften & soak up that delicious boullion. Makes a wonderful dish.
We've been eating our Mustards and Collards this week with Pork Loin, black eyed peas, and cornbread! Boo even requested I bring "more of those spicy greens" to the hunting camp! ♥
I cook mine in vegetable or chicken broth. I add fresh garlic and onion, salt and pepper. Be careful with salt. If your meat is already salted, you should reduce the added salt. If you don't want to use pork, you can use smoked turkey legs or just add olive oil.
I love growing greens! I usually do a pot of mixed greens…..collards, kale, and mustard (my favorite). Right now I also have kohlrabi growing…so I peel and chop up a bulb or two and throw it in the pot too. Yum! I got my Blue Collards from your website….they are very pretty and tasty. Thanks for sharing the info. I always enjoy watching and learning from you.
I love collard greens and kale. For anyone who finds kale a bit tough or bitter, try Premier Kale. They are very similar to collards in looks, but are milder and more tender.
I have a tree Collard in my garden that is about 5 years old. This thing wants to reach for the sky but I keep it trimmed to about 6 ft tall. l take cuttings from it, once they are well rooted I share them with my neighbors who like to garden.
It's late December in '24 and you have challenged me to try collards in my garden this coming spring. Early in your presentation you compared mustard greens to the collards. I know your gardens always look super clean of weeds. Jokingly I figure you could have both mustard and collards in the same area. Broadcast your mustard sees between rows of your collards. that way you could maybe get back into the pleasures of weeding your garden. lol!
Your video got me craving some greens, so I went out to the garden in a clear, 31-degree morning to pick 4 collards leaves for my morning omelet. Two strips of bacon, then sweated half a yellow onion wilted the greens in the bacon fat, and poured in the eggs and topped with cheddar cheese. Delicious! PS - I also grow green and purple broccoli and two types of cabbages. Gonna start eating all their greens as my whole family likes collard greens.
How about Swiss Chard? It tastes similar, but less bitter, produces a ton of leaves and it can last through both Spring colds and Summer heat without bolting.
I’ve tried collard greens, and they are about as palatable as a deck of cards. My black neighbor makes turnip greens with turnip bottoms-the most delicious form of Southern greens. I’ve made them, and also dinosaur kale. Either of these is WAY tastier than collards. I suppose if you grew up with them, but I was 70 before I had them.
How I cook my greens. Large pan, add 1 or 2 Tablespoons bacon grease or oil. Chop up one large onion and sauté , Add 2 to 4 cups chicken broth, turn up heat and add greens, as greens cook down, add more greens, I add several cups of water enough to cover greens, cubed up smoked Tasso ham or Smoked ham hocks, season with Tony Chachere’s seasoning and simmer for 4 to 6 hrs or in till tender. I add water as needed, but I let it cook down until it has about half the broth left and has a good rich color. This is called pot liquor and has a good rich flavor. I always make a pan of cornbread and sometimes red beans and rice to go with it or just greens by themselves. I cook mustard, greens and collard’s the same way. I eat turnip greens, but they ain’t my favorite.
I bought some local and got them home and they were slap full of white flys . I got them for thanksgiving and I still haven’t eat them . The chickens got some and one is still living in a pot of water . Still has white flys on it . I was blessed that my brother brought some so I didn’t have to cook and eat white flys.
Good morning got a question about your regulator. I’m trying to find the video on your new regulator system that you changed from the old system thank you have a great day.
My family always grew the old fashioned collards but I've never been a fan of any cooked greens, especially collards because they stink up the whole house when you cook them. I know they are good for you and I grow them every fall through winter for my family that likes them. Growing up in a large family and being poor there were many times that we had only collards and cornbread on the table. My parents and siblings loved them while I ate only corn bread. Turnips and mustard I can eat if I douse them in pepper/vinegar sauce , but not collards. Maybe if I was starving I could choke them down, I wish I liked them because they are very healthy for our bodies.
Here in North Carolina we not a fan of collard greens. But what we are a super fan of is cabbage collards. With the cabbage collards you don’t have what most call the bitter bit in cabbage collards. And my brother I hope will be bringing me a Hugh bag full. I wee be cooking some and freeze the rest for later.
You forgot the cornbread. I used to grow a tree collard. It would get so tall I'd have to cut the top 2 feet off to harvest the leaves. I would then poke that top in the soil and it would root and start all over. After a lite wash 'I'd freeze them in a bag then break them up like glass. The tender parts went into the pot and the stems went to the pigs.
We got down to 17° in Ohio and my mustards got pretty limp and layed over. Collards took a beating but came back pretty well. I wish i had covered growing area but they eat darn good.
Travis: You're preaching to the choir, I love collards and also mustards. I like the Florida broadleaf mustards far better than the savannah mustards. Good video Go Gatores.
The old timey blue collard turns completely blue, not just the vanes. I have had temps as low as the 20 (tomorrow it will be in the teens) and upper 60’s since I’ve planted them. So the temp might have something to do with that. I’m in Maryland and most people around here will not eat them until we’ve had a hard frost. In my family I’m all alone in this subject and it’s the second year growing this variety.
I love collards, but live in new england. best time to plant them here? probably very late winter and under a tunnel? cabbage moths are the issue in Fall here. using BT is the only way I've kept them off successfully. also plant late summer with a tunnel and keep til the cold kills it. any advice?
Collard greens & corn bread...now that's a comfort meal!!!❤
Absolutely ❤
Travis, I’m so impressed with your culinary vocab- rendering, deglazing. You show your viewers, we southerners know how to cook as well as garden.
I lived in the south and I still hate collards. Southerners think they r the only ones that cook. BS.
@@bethlove2862 wow, dies everyone have to know what you hate?
My dad, who was a fisherman, used to say he was 'filleting' the collard greens by folding them in half lengthwise and cutting out the spine. Then sliced them up for cooking. Soooo good!!
@italiana626sc
I do fillet my kale, and my dogs like the bones! Just one each, cuz I don’t want too much oxalate in their food, but figure there must be something good for them in it since even the picky eater likes them.😊
I had my homegrown Collards and Mustards with cornbread last night for dinner.
I love collards, but my favorite way to cook them is a quick pan saute or wilt. Bacon grease, a tad of water for steam, and a little salt and pepper. Of course top them with a little pepper vinegar! I like them to still have some life in them, not cooked down in a simmer pot.
Yep.
They're good in Italian beans and greens, too. Wilted in a pot with white beans, then some parmesan mixed in.
I never liked collards until I grew my own. I only grew them because they were in a mixed 6 pack I bought with other fall veggies. When the one plant I grew was mature and I tasted it I was totally surprised by how sweet and good it was! Now they are on my 'must plant' list for fall crops. In addition to cooking them the way you mentioned, I like them as a sandwich wrap in place of tortillas or flatbread. I just cut off the stem and stiff part near the stem and use the rest of those giant leaves to wrap up whatever sammy fillings I want.
Love that sandwich idea @PlowAndPantryHomestead
Yum! From North Carolina I love collards. After you eat all the collards from the stalks, wait until spring and then you get to eat collards sprouts, the best eating ever. ❤️🙏
Oh to have a garden full of beautiful greens in the WINTER..... up here in the winter desert... I look at my empty and snow covered garden and long for the future days of sunshine and green vegetables!
Oh I so agree, it was -7 F last night, 5 F now at 10:45 am and everything is covered in a blanket of snow. Makes me dream of moving south for a longer growing season…..but spring will come 😊
My garden is booming in Ft Perce Fla,6 relatively new collard plants harvest first time yesterday, Bacon, onion, garlic, then better than bullion chicken stock, teaspoon sugar, and few drops apple cider vinegar cooked over 45 minutes. Everybody loved them with prime rib and mashed potato. First time really eating proper collards one of the best things we ever made. Hooked for life.
Man! Describing how you cook these DID make me hungry! I have to try these next spring!
Collards are by far my favorite greens and that why it's the only one I grow. I've had collards laugh at temps in the low teen without being covered. I grow enough collards to be able to eat them twice a week all year long. Cooked collards in quart freezer bags will last 9 months easily without losing flavor or texture. I actually just ate my last bag from the spring this week, and have put up 8 new bags from my harvest earlier this month. Next harvest should be around the 1st of the year.
Collards are wonderful. I planted some a few years ago in our yard and they've been volunteering themselves since.
Thank you for taking the time to share this information.
Great video, Travis! I love growing collards, too. I also use the Bright Lights Swiss Chard to give some color to my greens.
Swiss chard is an excellent choice
Merry Christmas to you and the family!Love and Prayers ❤️🙏🎄
Love collards! Aside from leaving the rib/stems on, everything else you said goes: bacon/bacon grease, chicken broth, vinegar, sugar, hot sauce on mine, not on my husband's. I have some little bitty transplants started very late, so I don't know if I can plant them out this year. It was an afterthought, but I'll do better at planning next time.
We threw some collards in with our kale and made collard chips. Wow were they good! Just another way to enjoy collards.
Thank you for telling us how to cook them! This Yankee girl had them once in a restaurant and loved them. I grew some but didn't know how to properly cook them. Thank you!
I like that you call them groceries. Perspective!
I love collards!!!!
Collard greens pot- liquor will fix what ails ya!!!
Don’t forget the cornbread though!!!!
Collards with turnips and hamhock.A little hot souce.Do not forget that cornbread
You are a star, Travis !
I'm up here in Western New York, and I see my parsley survives the snow, but I don't know about collards. You definitely convinced me to plant them in the spring, though.
I have use them raw to do veggie roll ups you can put avocado, onion, radish, cucumber, what ever you like roll ups and it’s delicious. And as you say keeps you full for a long time… I have not grown them however I will start winter garden is the way to go in the desert as you dont have all the bugs. summer is hard in the low desert… thank you for the information.
Collards are a must have for New Years! We love all greens, but collards are our favorite. MERRY CHRISTMAS 🎄
Love me some collards. Planted some early spring and they are still going. Died back a bit in summer but exploded again in fall.
I found a variety of collards that adapted to the Sahara desert! They grow all summer! They are called Sahara collards. I love regular collards with cornbread, black eyed peas, a full meal. We use apple cider vinegar and bacon grease with the collards along with chopped onion and cooked in mild chicken broth, yummy! We got one that we left alone and it came back for the third year. We roll them up like you do. We cut off the naked stems.
AMEN
Hey Trav, Merry Christmas to you and your family❤
My collards grow right through the winter....and mine made it through that super cold winter too. I have to confess, I have never really cared for collard greens, and don't eat them. I grow them for reason # 6 - they make a great fertilizer since they are high in nitrogen.
I like your style, dawg; appreciate the knowledge! Shalom
My mother always cooked both together, with a ham hock 😁
Yes. Yes. Yes! And they are SO beautiful and green in The depths of the winter months. They are like massive green ‘flowers’ in the garden! I can see our patch actually in a flower bed as I look down a path from our back door. Nearer by are the white pansies, wood chard and purple kale adding color to the winter beds! When we want a different flavor than our traditional Southern method, I stir fry/wilt them with some think apple slices, a little apple cider vinegar, a little brown sugar and or a spoon full or two of apple juice concentrate or juice… all depends on what I have on hand. Add some birds eye pepper sauce to any way you cook ‘em and yummy!
I strip the stems and dice them fine to cook them first then add the rolled cut leaves. I use smoked turkey wings to flavor the potlikker.
I put a ton in my freezer this year by just vacuum sealing as much as I could stuff into each bag. I cook them with country ham.
I agree about collards, and I am still harvesting from mine that I planted from seed last spring! I couldn't believe they survived the wicked hot Florida summer looking like they were done, I had harvested everything out of the plot that I wanted and left that plot go to weeds because I had some pressing projects that kept me away from the garden plot, then to my great surprise I was checking my plots to prepare for winter gardening and I saw that my collards and a couple kale plants had sprang back to life making larger leaves than they had in the spring! I had one 35' row of mixture of collards and kale that have given me a lot of delicious eating this year and they are still going strong!
Greens are about the only thing I can grow successfully in my backyard garden in winter. The sun gets lower on the horizon, and I just don’t get enough direct sun for much else, but my greens will still do well. It’s almost Christmas and I’ve harvested a mess of mustard and about to cut some collards for Christmas dinner. It’s Christmas so I have to share, but I could eat the whole pot. 😁
Collard greens look like a true gift in the garden. I haven’t grown them yet, but I heard they are easy to grow, packed with nutrition! I am going to be adding some to my container garden beds! 🥬❤️
Ham hocks are great. You can mix mustard and collards as well as tunup greens. Salt your water. Goes so good with corn bread or rice
We grow Alabama blue collards & love them. For a variety dish, i will sometimes cut a few leaves like you do, with the leaves rolled up into small strips. These I cook til tender. I'll crumble up a package of Maruchan noodles into a frypan with olive oil ~2 tbsp seasoned with chicken boullion & a cup or more water. Add the collards as the noodles soften & soak up that delicious boullion. Makes a wonderful dish.
I like to grow top bunch collards, fertilized with blood meal. They're a vibrant blue-green and grow like crazy.
I grow collards! So delish cooked right from the garden.
Man it's super cold here in kentucky right now. I can't wait for your pre-order to start on your fig trees
I LOVE collards! In my world, they are a food group. 😆
Collards are my favorite!
I like mine with a little shrimp boil seasoning.
Thanks for the video! We are loving our Alabama blues. Wishing we could share them with victims in WNC &east TN! Sending what help we CAN give.
We love our greens, Kale, Collards, Mustards, all good.
I love the juice with or without corn bread.
Pot liquor!
My favorite greens: radish tops, beet tops, swiss chard, spinach, turnip tops, mustard, cabbage, then collard. Lil EVOO, butter, red pepper flakes, garlic, mushrooms sautee greens, perfect side. Spinach bolts once it gets warm.
We've been eating our Mustards and Collards this week with Pork Loin, black eyed peas, and cornbread! Boo even requested I bring "more of those spicy greens" to the hunting camp! ♥
I cook mine in vegetable or chicken broth. I add fresh garlic and onion, salt and pepper. Be careful with salt. If your meat is already salted, you should reduce the added salt. If you don't want to use pork, you can use smoked turkey legs or just add olive oil.
Growing Georgia collards. Zone 9a in South Texas. Good to grow and eat.
I’ve been adding some of the Louisiana evergreen shallots into the pot with my collards greens. A little bacon, salt, pepper and they’re perfect
We eat a lot of collards. So good sauteed in olive oil, black pepper, vinegar and soy sauce, served with chili crisp.
Thank You Travis and Merry Christmas
Beautiful Collards
I love growing greens! I usually do a pot of mixed greens…..collards, kale, and mustard (my favorite). Right now I also have kohlrabi growing…so I peel and chop up a bulb or two and throw it in the pot too. Yum! I got my Blue Collards from your website….they are very pretty and tasty. Thanks for sharing the info. I always enjoy watching and learning from you.
I love collard greens and kale. For anyone who finds kale a bit tough or bitter, try Premier Kale. They are very similar to collards in looks, but are milder and more tender.
Just ordered me some Alabama Blue Collards in the mail. Collards are my favorite greens.
I have a tree Collard in my garden that is about 5 years old. This thing wants to reach for the sky but I keep it trimmed to about 6 ft tall. l take cuttings from it, once they are well rooted I share them with my neighbors who like to garden.
It's late December in '24 and you have challenged me to try collards in my garden this coming spring. Early in your presentation you compared mustard greens to the collards. I know your gardens always look super clean of weeds. Jokingly I figure you could have both mustard and collards in the same area. Broadcast your mustard sees between rows of your collards. that way you could maybe get back into the pleasures of weeding your garden. lol!
Your video got me craving some greens, so I went out to the garden in a clear, 31-degree morning to pick 4 collards leaves for my morning omelet. Two strips of bacon, then sweated half a yellow onion wilted the greens in the bacon fat, and poured in the eggs and topped with cheddar cheese. Delicious!
PS - I also grow green and purple broccoli and two types of cabbages. Gonna start eating all their greens as my whole family likes collard greens.
I have some put up in mason jars! You are making me hungry. Corn bread and greens sounds pretty good! I have a jar or two of bacon grease.
❤❤❤I love all greens!!!
Thank for sharing
i need that blue collard! so pretty!
Simmer with cubed ham steak and cayenne pepper flakes. That's all it takes to make perfect greens.
Thanks for sharing!!!
Thanks for the video, i have turnips growing but didn't grow collards...
How about Swiss Chard? It tastes similar, but less bitter, produces a ton of leaves and it can last through both Spring colds and Summer heat without bolting.
Try smoked turkey wing instead of ham hock. Gives good smoke flavor but less grease
I bet the aphids love them.
Travis, I have 18 collard plants growing. I’ll be eating and harvesting until the spring😅
Really good cooked with a smoked turkey leg in the pot. And you can't have collard greens without cornbread.
I’ve tried collard greens, and they are about as palatable as a deck of cards.
My black neighbor makes turnip greens with turnip bottoms-the most delicious form of Southern greens. I’ve made them, and also dinosaur kale. Either of these is WAY tastier than collards. I suppose if you grew up with them, but I was 70 before I had them.
How I cook my greens. Large pan, add 1 or 2 Tablespoons bacon grease or oil. Chop up one large onion and sauté , Add 2 to 4 cups chicken broth, turn up heat and add greens, as greens cook down, add more greens, I add several cups of water enough to cover greens, cubed up smoked Tasso ham or Smoked ham hocks, season with Tony Chachere’s seasoning and simmer for 4 to 6 hrs or in till tender. I add water as needed, but I let it cook down until it has about half the broth left and has a good rich color. This is called pot liquor and has a good rich flavor. I always make a pan of cornbread and sometimes red beans and rice to go with it or just greens by themselves. I cook mustard, greens and collard’s the same way. I eat turnip greens, but they ain’t my favorite.
Thanks Travis, for the cooking tip for collards as our household are not fans of cooked greens.😊
I'm learning to like em. I grow em because everyone else loves em.
My spinach and beets produced a ton this year
If you don't have too much space to grow, you can also grow giant varieties of mustard. The leaves can get massive.
I bought some local and got them home and they were slap full of white flys . I got them for thanksgiving and I still haven’t eat them . The chickens got some and one is still living in a pot of water . Still has white flys on it . I was blessed that my brother brought some so I didn’t have to cook and eat white flys.
I love me some collard greens. I’m going to make some on Sunday
My collards just got slow down substantially due to some recent temps in the high teens.
Good morning got a question about your regulator. I’m trying to find the video on your new regulator system that you changed from the old system thank you have a great day.
I’m growing collards 2nd round! Yum yum
I like to eat them super young and raw!
I like kale too!
My family always grew the old fashioned collards but I've never been a fan of any cooked greens, especially collards because they stink up the whole house when you cook them. I know they are good for you and I grow them every fall through winter for my family that likes them. Growing up in a large family and being poor there were many times that we had only collards and cornbread on the table. My parents and siblings loved them while I ate only corn bread. Turnips and mustard I can eat if I douse them in pepper/vinegar sauce , but not collards. Maybe if I was starving I could choke them down, I wish I liked them because they are very healthy for our bodies.
Cool man thanks
Have you heard of Morris heading cabbage collards? They are the best flavor. They also are very large and have a small head in center.
Thank you
Here in North Carolina we not a fan of collard greens. But what we are a super fan of is cabbage collards. With the cabbage collards you don’t have what most call the bitter bit in cabbage collards. And my brother I hope will be bringing me a Hugh bag full. I wee be cooking some and freeze the rest for later.
You forgot the cornbread.
I used to grow a tree collard. It would get so tall I'd have to cut the top 2 feet off to harvest the leaves. I would then poke that top in the soil and it would root and start all over.
After a lite wash 'I'd freeze them in a bag then break them up like glass. The tender parts went into the pot and the stems went to the pigs.
We got down to 17° in Ohio and my mustards got pretty limp and layed over. Collards took a beating but came back pretty well. I wish i had covered growing area but they eat darn good.
Trav, you talking now. I have missed out in life by not eating more collards.. Add some cornbread, come on!!
Travis: You're preaching to the choir, I love collards and also mustards. I like the Florida broadleaf mustards far better than the savannah mustards. Good video Go Gatores.
Is there a video I can watch to learn how to grow my own collards
The old timey blue collard turns completely blue, not just the vanes. I have had temps as low as the 20 (tomorrow it will be in the teens) and upper 60’s since I’ve planted them. So the temp might have something to do with that. I’m in Maryland and most people around here will not eat them until we’ve had a hard frost. In my family I’m all alone in this subject and it’s the second year growing this variety.
Yes sir put you some hog jowl in the pot and some cornbread they will call you pot licker when you done
do you add onion, garlic or hot sauce? me neither. eat with corn bread. yum.
1030 here and I harvested some today for tomorrow, but know I am hungry... there I go to the kitchen.
I love collards, but live in new england. best time to plant them here? probably very late winter and under a tunnel? cabbage moths are the issue in Fall here. using BT is the only way I've kept them off successfully. also plant late summer with a tunnel and keep til the cold kills it. any advice?
Love collards