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Collard greens
Brassica oleracea
42.2529, -73.791
Field Notes
Description:
I believe this is the champion variety (Please correct me if I'm wrong). They have proven to be formidable plants since the day they were stuck in a two-foot tall mound. Collard is a shortened form of the word colewort (cabbage plant), though it lacks the core head of leaves present in cabbage. Biennial where winter frost occurs (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collard_greens), which it does in this region of the US. Very healthy and tasty, especially after frost.
Habitat:
I started these indoors from seed and planted them in spring 2010 in our vegetable garden: 1/3 topsoil, 1/3 peat, 1/3 humus manure. I gave them a bit of bat guano in may 2010.
Notes:
Uncovered and completely neglected since the fall, they laughed at the winter snowfall and are larger than ever. I had to seriously thin them out over the weekend.
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