Collard Greens

[Tiny Clanger]

Is it too late to grow collard greens? I've always been a lover of brassicas and these seem to be a king of "Spring Greens" that are sold in the supermarkets.

Are the difficult to grow - or just treat them like cabbage?

When is best to sow seeds and plant out?

We struggle with club root most of  the time. Thompson & Morgan have seed. 

[Tiny Clanger]

[saddad]

Just treat like cabbage, they are just a non-heading cabbage. Put some lime in the planting hole... to help with club root.

[Tee Gee]

I more or less agree with Saddad, but I prefer to encircle the plants with lime rather than placing it in the hole.

My reasoning is that if you place it in the hole the lime is washed down deeper into the soil whereas placing it around the top of the plant means as the new roots spread sideways, they spread into lime treated soil.

Another benefit I found was that slugs & snails did not tend to slide across it. Perhaps the slaked lime burns their bellies.

[Tiny Clanger]

Thanks for that. I'll  give them a go. Thanks Saddad and Tee Gee, it sounds like they're  not too hard to do. XX 

[Beersmith]

I'm always astonished by the variety of brassicas.  Cabbage, cauliflower, sprouter, Brussels, collard greens, kale, kohl rabi and even turnips. All derived from the same basic plant that shows a weird ability to store energy in almost every part from swollen roots, stems, leaves, flowers, buds, etc.  Truly remarkable.

[saddad]

Swollen stems, turnip, swede, Kohl Rabi yes but not any swollen roots that I know of, but yes they are astonishing vegetables.