Slightly sweet & very appealing to a lover of greens. The flavor is halfway between kale and cabbage. I would love to find someone in zone 7 or 8 who might take a few cuttings and propagate them - just to make sure this type of kale is available to future gardeners. So I should be able to keep some scions alive through the winter inside - with a little bit of luck.
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The really cool thing, though, is that I have figured out how to propagate one of them from cuttings. We only got down to 10 degrees F, so I don't know how these will hold up once some real cold sets in. I had 2 survive our warmer-than-average winter. Last year I expanded my perennial kale selection by planting out a bunch of seeds from the Experimental Farm Network's Kaleidoscopic Perennial Kale Grex. I've been excited about perennial greens ever since I discovered Crambe maritima (aka sea kale). The long term goal is to plant one of the collards in my pool/ chicken coop, along with the mulberry, and the other one like Daron Williams said, against the south side of my heated house since we're in the same zone. I paid $30 for all three of them, which was a bit steep in my opinion, but I wanted them and couldn't find anything local. It's already hot here where I live (mid 90's F right now) with intense sunlight. I keep them in filtered light under some lattice that gets the filtered morning sun, but gets all shade from about 2pm until the rest of the day, so they're getting very little light. I just took a picture a minute ago of how much they've leafed out in less than a month. The Mulberry was really tiny, but it had healthy looking roots. I received them through the mail on April 20th of this year, and that's when I took the picture. It all came as stated, and it's leafing out now, so hopefully they're growing some roots in the soil. I've seen John Kohler, and Dan over at Plant Abundance have good luck with them, and pretty much rave about how well they do, so I ordered a couple from an Etsy shop called Healthy Harvesters (he claims to be a permaculture nursery, and has a lot of plants for sale on his page although I don't think he's got the tree collard cuttings right now, or the Pakistani Mulberry I also bought from him.). I'm excited to see if I can get my unrooted cuttings to grow into perennial trees. If you leave a comment on the blog post make sure to leave a post here on permies too so I can easily give you the slice of pie. While you are over on the blog most make sure to leave a comment! If you are the first to do so you will get a piece of pie! The pie will get you access to some special features on perimes, discounts at some vendors, and you can use it to purchase some products on the permies digital marketplace. Have you tried to grow them? Make sure to leave a comment over on the blog post and here! So if these plants sound interesting to you make sure to check out the blog post!Īnd I would love to hear what you think about purple tree collards. I’m going to have to start trimming them down to keep them from blocking a window! Though in the end all 3 have survived and are growing great. Since they came from a nursery in California I was a bit worried about them handling the cold here.īut I don’t know if that was really necessary. I was very careful with them when I first planted them giving them each their own little plastic green house. When I first purchased them they were very small-just small rooted cuttings. I have 3 purple tree collards growing on my wild homestead and I’m hoping to add some more to other areas this fall.
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These plants also like full or partial-sun and can get fairly large-hence the name tree collards.Īs far as taste they have a mild flavor and are good eaten raw or cooked. My purple tree collards so far haven’t shown any signs of frost damage despite some nights down in the upper teens (F). Even here in zone 8 I have mine planted along the southside of my house since we occasionally get cold snaps that could kill purple tree collards. Though in zone 7 I would make sure to plant them in a warm micro-climate. USDA zones 8 and 9 are ideal for them though they might be able to go warmer or even down to zone 7.
While purple tree collards are great perennial vegetables they’re not very cold hardy. This week’s blog post- Purple Tree Collards – A Fantastic Perennial Vegetable-dives into these perennial vegetables but I wanted to give some info here too. Tree collards and other similar perennial vegetables like Kosmic kale make it easy to have fresh winter greens. These great perennial vegetables provide year-round greens and now that they’re fully established I have more than I can eat.
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