Comments on: Paying Homage to Collard Greens http://www.veggiegardeningtips.com/paying-homage-to-collard-greens/ Featuring Vegetable Gardening Tips, Organic Growing Techniques, and Unique Plants for the Backyard Gardener Fri, 16 May 2008 04:46:04 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Mary Saunders http://www.veggiegardeningtips.com/paying-homage-to-collard-greens/#comment-45097 Mary Saunders Fri, 11 Jan 2008 05:50:31 +0000 http://www.veggiegardeningtips.com/paying-homage-to-collard-greens/#comment-45097 Wikipedia has a great listing on collards. Wikipedia has a great listing on collards.

]]> By: Laura Hudson http://www.veggiegardeningtips.com/paying-homage-to-collard-greens/#comment-44030 Laura Hudson Fri, 04 Jan 2008 14:43:45 +0000 http://www.veggiegardeningtips.com/paying-homage-to-collard-greens/#comment-44030 I've just discovered your website kenny and I really like it so i'll be adding you to my blog roll of green fingers. I grow edibles in France and I would like to know what a collard is. I love leafy brassicas but i am not sure what a collard is, I'm guessing that's an American name do you know the latin plant name? I’ve just discovered your website kenny and I really like it so i’ll be adding you to my blog roll of green fingers.

I grow edibles in France and I would like to know what a collard is. I love leafy brassicas but i am not sure what a collard is, I’m guessing that’s an American name do you know the latin plant name?

]]> By: Mary Saunders http://www.veggiegardeningtips.com/paying-homage-to-collard-greens/#comment-33802 Mary Saunders Wed, 31 Oct 2007 04:02:51 +0000 http://www.veggiegardeningtips.com/paying-homage-to-collard-greens/#comment-33802 Another reason to grow collards are their flowers. They are purely sweet, absolutely delicious, and they would be decorative with a tapenade or other dark background. The plants which have been plucked of their lower leaves look like palm trees in the cold. Cabbages plucked of all their leaves will re-grow sweet little heads if you bury the cores far enough that most critters leave them alone. I have a container by the dryer vent where I put in cut-off onion roots as well. I have had success eating all the celery and regrowing new celery from roots. It set flowers that went to seed. I am hoping to get baby celeries in the spring. Collard greens are just delicious cooked with olive oil, onion, and mustard. I add a bit of balsamic vinegar after cooking as well. Many people also use hot sauce. Yum. Mary Saunders Another reason to grow collards are their flowers. They are purely sweet, absolutely delicious, and they would be decorative with a tapenade or other dark background. The plants which have been plucked of their lower leaves look like palm trees in the cold.

Cabbages plucked of all their leaves will re-grow sweet little heads if you bury the cores far enough that most critters leave them alone. I have a container by the dryer vent where I put in cut-off onion roots as well.

I have had success eating all the celery and regrowing new celery from roots. It set flowers that went to seed. I am hoping to get baby celeries in the spring.

Collard greens are just delicious cooked with olive oil, onion, and mustard. I add a bit of balsamic vinegar after cooking as well. Many people also use hot sauce. Yum.

Mary Saunders

]]> By: Adam Fletcher http://www.veggiegardeningtips.com/paying-homage-to-collard-greens/#comment-32808 Adam Fletcher Thu, 25 Oct 2007 19:48:29 +0000 http://www.veggiegardeningtips.com/paying-homage-to-collard-greens/#comment-32808 Hi Kenny, Great post, I don't personally grow collard greens. Maybe these are a vegetable that I will try growing next year. Thanks Hi Kenny,

Great post, I don’t personally grow collard greens. Maybe these are a vegetable that I will try growing next year.

Thanks

]]> By: Kenny Point http://www.veggiegardeningtips.com/paying-homage-to-collard-greens/#comment-32433 Kenny Point Tue, 23 Oct 2007 02:40:17 +0000 http://www.veggiegardeningtips.com/paying-homage-to-collard-greens/#comment-32433 Hi Lafaye, I remember seeing a plant called "tree collards" listed in a seed catalog years ago but I don't recall which catalog and I haven't seen it advertised anywhere in recent years. There is a "walking stick cabbage" that is offered by a number of seed sources but I don't think that it is the same plant as the tree collard. Hi Lafaye, I remember seeing a plant called “tree collards” listed in a seed catalog years ago but I don’t recall which catalog and I haven’t seen it advertised anywhere in recent years. There is a “walking stick cabbage” that is offered by a number of seed sources but I don’t think that it is the same plant as the tree collard.

]]> By: lafaye butler http://www.veggiegardeningtips.com/paying-homage-to-collard-greens/#comment-32253 lafaye butler Sun, 21 Oct 2007 08:54:21 +0000 http://www.veggiegardeningtips.com/paying-homage-to-collard-greens/#comment-32253 Please help me find a collard tree plant. Thank U Please help me find a collard tree plant.
Thank U

]]> By: flowers » Paying Homage to Collard Greens http://www.veggiegardeningtips.com/paying-homage-to-collard-greens/#comment-31981 flowers » Paying Homage to Collard Greens Thu, 18 Oct 2007 15:38:41 +0000 http://www.veggiegardeningtips.com/paying-homage-to-collard-greens/#comment-31981 [...] came across this post - Paying Homage to Collard Greens - and thought it was worth sharing. I hope you find it interesting too and take the time to read [...] [...] came across this post - Paying Homage to Collard Greens - and thought it was worth sharing. I hope you find it interesting too and take the time to read [...]

]]> By: TopVeg http://www.veggiegardeningtips.com/paying-homage-to-collard-greens/#comment-31958 TopVeg Thu, 18 Oct 2007 09:46:51 +0000 http://www.veggiegardeningtips.com/paying-homage-to-collard-greens/#comment-31958 Great site - & interesting post. We will have to try collared greens! Great site - & interesting post. We will have to try collared greens!

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