Collard, Georgia Southern Collard Greens
Regular price
$0.99 USD
Regular price
Sale price
$0.99 USD
Unit price
per
Georgia Southern Collard Greens
Georgia Southern Collard Greens are the cream of the crop. They have a sweet, cabbage-like flavor, ruffled blue-green leaves that will withstand light frost. Plant tolerates heat, cold, poor soil and is slow to bolt. Produces tender, juicy, sweet, cabbage-like flavored, ruffled blue-green leaves that will withstand light frost. Leaves taste best when young and flavor actually improves with a light frost.
- Botanical Name - Brassica oleracea
- Zone: 3-9
- Days to Maturity: 65-80 Days
- Height: 24-36" Tall
- Foliage: Green Blue
- Treated: No
- Germination Time: 5-12 Days
- Breed: Heirloom, Open Pollinated
- Germination Rate: 90%
- Lifecycle: Biennial
- Sunlight: Full Sun/Partial Shade
- Watering: Average to Moderate
- Sow Method: Direct Sow or Transplant
- Sow Depth: 1/4
- Plant Spacing: 12 inch
- Row Spacing: 18-36 inch
- Season of Interest: All
Did you know... Collards are usually grown as an annual, but they are a biennial plant and will produce yellow four-petaled flowers in loose clusters in its second year. Those dry into long capsules known as siliques that contain the tiny seeds.
CLASSIFICATION: Open Pollinated, Heirloom, Non-Gmo, Biennial
COMPANIONS:
- Potatoes
- Celery
- Dill
- Chamomile
- Sage
- Thyme
- Mint
- Rosemary
- Lavender
- Beets
- Onions
ALLIES:
- Aromatic plants deter cabbage worms
ENEMIES:
- Strawberries