I add collards, mustard and turnip greens together in a big pot. Onion powder, garlic powder, chopped onions and some kinda pork. Bacon, hog jowls, fat back, salt pork... makes a mighty fine pot of greens.
I’m not a lover of collards, but I have a lot of rabbits to feed. And collards & kale provide a lot of greens to feed them. I agree that they are one of the best vegetables to grow
I have a tree Collard in my garden that is about 5 years old. This thing wants to reach for the sky but I keep it trimmed to about 6 ft tall. l take cuttings from it, once they are well rooted I share them with my neighbors who like to garden.
@@mariatorres9789 There are many varieties of Collared Greens, and I have a couple kinds in my gardens, I also have grown a variety of Tree Kale in the garden, it was featured in the local newspaper's garden section a few years ago.
@@bigdogbob845, Good to know I can grow them from cuttings since there are no seeds to buy where I Iive (Central America) but I can buy the leaves at one grocery store. The outside temperature rarely drops below 65F (average: 75F + overnight) so I think I might be able to grow lots of collard greens year round. American raised pork chops are only $1.20 at the grocery store, good combo.
My dad, who was a fisherman, used to say he was 'filleting' the collard greens by folding them in half lengthwise and cutting out the spine. Then sliced them up for cooking. Soooo good!!
@italiana626sc I do fillet my kale, and my dogs like the bones! Just one each, cuz I don’t want too much oxalate in their food, but figure there must be something good for them in it since even the picky eater likes them.😊
I love collard green and could eat them everyday. Years ago I read that frozen collard green was the most nutritious thing you could buy in a grocery store.
Tomorrow morning will be the third consecutive heavy frost on my collards making them sweet and ready to eat. I cook the stems and ham hocks together until the meat is falling off the bone before adding the greens.
I just harvested my red Russian kale on December 15th in Maine. They can be harvested all year long. You just keep pulling off the lower leaves and allow the top to grow out. Very much like collards but a little bit thinner leaves.
Yum! From North Carolina I love collards. After you eat all the collards from the stalks, wait until spring and then you get to eat collards sprouts, the best eating ever. ❤️🙏
I agree about collards, and I am still harvesting from mine that I planted from seed last spring! I couldn't believe they survived the wicked hot Florida summer looking like they were done, I had harvested everything out of the plot that I wanted and left that plot go to weeds because I had some pressing projects that kept me away from the garden plot, then to my great surprise I was checking my plots to prepare for winter gardening and I saw that my collards and a couple kale plants had sprang back to life making larger leaves than they had in the spring! I had one 35' row of mixture of collards and kale that have given me a lot of delicious eating this year and they are still going strong!
Thousandhead kale from Baker Creek looks a lot like collards and has huge leaves. Here in Southern California in zone 10 they grow better and are sooo tender. It is what I grow now. I lived in Alabama and learned to appreciate greens!
My garden is booming in Ft Perce Fla,6 relatively new collard plants harvest first time yesterday, Bacon, onion, garlic, then better than bullion chicken stock, teaspoon sugar, and few drops apple cider vinegar cooked over 45 minutes. Everybody loved them with prime rib and mashed potato. First time really eating proper collards one of the best things we ever made. Hooked for life.
Oh to have a garden full of beautiful greens in the WINTER..... up here in the winter desert... I look at my empty and snow covered garden and long for the future days of sunshine and green vegetables!
Oh I so agree, it was -7 F last night, 5 F now at 10:45 am and everything is covered in a blanket of snow. Makes me dream of moving south for a longer growing season…..but spring will come 😊
I have lots of collards right now, Zone 9a, but come spring and summer I am jealous of northern gardeners. Oh, how I’d love to be able to grow lettuce for a beautiful salad in the summer.
Collards are by far my favorite greens and that why it's the only one I grow. I've had collards laugh at temps in the low teen without being covered. I grow enough collards to be able to eat them twice a week all year long. Cooked collards in quart freezer bags will last 9 months easily without losing flavor or texture. I actually just ate my last bag from the spring this week, and have put up 8 new bags from my harvest earlier this month. Next harvest should be around the 1st of the year.
I love collards, but my favorite way to cook them is a quick pan saute or wilt. Bacon grease, a tad of water for steam, and a little salt and pepper. Of course top them with a little pepper vinegar! I like them to still have some life in them, not cooked down in a simmer pot.
I totally agree with all these reasons to grow collards! Sometimes I cook them without pork - just olive oil, onions and garlic, maybe add some black-eyed peas and have a one pot dinner. I am in the NC Piedmont, so I mostly grow heritage William Alexander collards - very delicious and cold hardy. They do bolt in spring if they were exposed to the short days of the solstice. Sometimes I get around that with a second planting in February, along with the lettuce and spinach. Collards planted then do very well and can be harvested way after the lettuce has bolted. If I remember to control the cabbage looper, they last until the following spring in fact. Flavor gets a little cabbagey during summer heat, but I like cabbage okay and the convenience can't be beat. Thanks for covering this interesting topic!
I grow Kale varieties in the UK (I think it's zone 8), these may fill a similar niche, another green you might consider that's cold tolerant is Claytonia which is a salad leaf, there are also the Japanese cold tolerant salads, such as Mibuna and Mizuna.
If I was cooking the collard greens you’d vote for them lol ~ steam the leaves, then fry them up with olive oil, black mustard seeds or poppy seeds, add pecans and balsamic vinegar.
Ive been trying so hard to find growers closest to my house. Looks like youre it! Im in Eastman about 100 miles from you. Same zone though. Im just getting started gardening and could use some good tips for SE GA!
I love growing greens! I usually do a pot of mixed greens…..collards, kale, and mustard (my favorite). Right now I also have kohlrabi growing…so I peel and chop up a bulb or two and throw it in the pot too. Yum! I got my Blue Collards from your website….they are very pretty and tasty. Thanks for sharing the info. I always enjoy watching and learning from you.
I grew up eating all kinds of greens and still love them all (except poke🤢) but have developed stomach issues and can't handle them like I used to. I've noticed that collards are one of the few that don't shred my stomach after I eat them.
Thank you for the info. First time I had collards I was 18 and on vacation without my parents. My great aunt prepared a mid day meal with collards. I had never heard of them -much eaten any. They were so good. I fell in love with them and had a 2nd helping. Later that evening I went with my great grandma to visit another relative and after the car ride on bumpy winding roads my stomach wasn’t feeling very good. Oh no. Up came all the contents of my stomach in the once lovely flower bed by their front door. That was over 50 years ago. Too much of a good thing…I’ve not had any since. 😮
I never liked collards until I grew my own. I only grew them because they were in a mixed 6 pack I bought with other fall veggies. When the one plant I grew was mature and I tasted it I was totally surprised by how sweet and good it was! Now they are on my 'must plant' list for fall crops. In addition to cooking them the way you mentioned, I like them as a sandwich wrap in place of tortillas or flatbread. I just cut off the stem and stiff part near the stem and use the rest of those giant leaves to wrap up whatever sammy fillings I want.
Have you tried Thousand Head Kale? They get 3' long leaves and are very frost hardy. You could probably grow them all through your winter down there. Same with Giant Winter Spinach. In any rate, they are also good for your livestock. By the way, I think those Louisiana Evergreen Shallots I got from you, will survive this winter in the greenhouse...
Love collards! Aside from leaving the rib/stems on, everything else you said goes: bacon/bacon grease, chicken broth, vinegar, sugar, hot sauce on mine, not on my husband's. I have some little bitty transplants started very late, so I don't know if I can plant them out this year. It was an afterthought, but I'll do better at planning next time.
A wonderful plant for those with little space. Collards-kale and chard, you do need to experiment sometimes with what suits you. Don't get discouraged . Chopped up in stew or soup is good too.
Thank you for telling us how to cook them! This Yankee girl had them once in a restaurant and loved them. I grew some but didn't know how to properly cook them. Thank you!
Yes. Yes. Yes! And they are SO beautiful and green in The depths of the winter months. They are like massive green ‘flowers’ in the garden! I can see our patch actually in a flower bed as I look down a path from our back door. Nearer by are the white pansies, wood chard and purple kale adding color to the winter beds! When we want a different flavor than our traditional Southern method, I stir fry/wilt them with some think apple slices, a little apple cider vinegar, a little brown sugar and or a spoon full or two of apple juice concentrate or juice… all depends on what I have on hand. Add some birds eye pepper sauce to any way you cook ‘em and yummy!
I'm way up north in Canada and with snow on the ground I won't be growing these for another couple of months, but you've peaked my interest for the spring garden👍
Greens are about the only thing I can grow successfully in my backyard garden in winter. The sun gets lower on the horizon, and I just don’t get enough direct sun for much else, but my greens will still do well. It’s almost Christmas and I’ve harvested a mess of mustard and about to cut some collards for Christmas dinner. It’s Christmas so I have to share, but I could eat the whole pot. 😁
Man, I learn so much from each video. I've been having some success with swiss chard down here in 9A, but I think its time to add some collards and mustard greens.
I use chicken stock ,,,,ham hocks and onions (some use smoked turkey leg) and yes vinegar helps take the bitterness out ,,,,,,I ad picklin seasoning in as well .......then louisiana hot sauce in the bowl while eating them ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,Great for people with diabetes It is a superfood yum oh and the broth is delicious its called pot liquor
I found a variety of collards that adapted to the Sahara desert! They grow all summer! They are called Sahara collards. I love regular collards with cornbread, black eyed peas, a full meal. We use apple cider vinegar and bacon grease with the collards along with chopped onion and cooked in mild chicken broth, yummy! We got one that we left alone and it came back for the third year. We roll them up like you do. We cut off the naked stems.
I have use them raw to do veggie roll ups you can put avocado, onion, radish, cucumber, what ever you like roll ups and it’s delicious. And as you say keeps you full for a long time… I have not grown them however I will start winter garden is the way to go in the desert as you dont have all the bugs. summer is hard in the low desert… thank you for the information.
It's late December in '24 and you have challenged me to try collards in my garden this coming spring. Early in your presentation you compared mustard greens to the collards. I know your gardens always look super clean of weeds. Jokingly I figure you could have both mustard and collards in the same area. Broadcast your mustard sees between rows of your collards. that way you could maybe get back into the pleasures of weeding your garden. lol!
I'm up here in Western New York, and I see my parsley survives the snow, but I don't know about collards. You definitely convinced me to plant them in the spring, though.
Collard greens look like a true gift in the garden. I haven’t grown them yet, but I heard they are easy to grow, packed with nutrition! I am going to be adding some to my container garden beds! 🥬❤️
I grew collards for the first time last summer. I'm in the high desert in the mountain west where it freezes in the winter, so mine have been gone for a month or more now, though they were pretty cold hardy compared to other greens. It got really hot last summer, but they didn't really get bitter when other greens did. I never heard of them when I was growing up and didn't have much of a clue what to do with them. My chickens loved them. I hope to learn new ways to use them. They were really easy to grow.
Love the personality!! I learned a lot and enjoyed the presentation!! Im gathering a list of fruits,veggies and herbs and this nice vide just pops on up for me. hahaha
My collards grow right through the winter....and mine made it through that super cold winter too. I have to confess, I have never really cared for collard greens, and don't eat them. I grow them for reason # 6 - they make a great fertilizer since they are high in nitrogen.
We grow Alabama blue collards & love them. For a variety dish, i will sometimes cut a few leaves like you do, with the leaves rolled up into small strips. These I cook til tender. I'll crumble up a package of Maruchan noodles into a frypan with olive oil ~2 tbsp seasoned with chicken boullion & a cup or more water. Add the collards as the noodles soften & soak up that delicious boullion. Makes a wonderful dish.
Thanks for this video. I bought some Flash collards (but didn't know it until you mentioned the name) and they have lasted almost three seasons here in North Florida. However, it never hurts to have different types, I'm definitely looking into this type.
Collard greens & corn bread...now that's a comfort meal!!!❤
Absolutely ❤
😁Now you're getting on my good side.
With a side of garden sliced tomatoes 🍅
Mmm hmmm. 😋😋 🥬🌶️
I add collards, mustard and turnip greens together in a big pot. Onion powder, garlic powder, chopped onions and some kinda pork. Bacon, hog jowls, fat back, salt pork... makes a mighty fine pot of greens.
Mixed greens are my favorite!🤤
Yummo! 😋🥬🌶️🌞
As I go on my 8th year as a Southern in Training, I love grits, cornbread, collards, bacon, black eyed peas, oysters, and BBQs!
LOL Southern in training? LOL
I bought collards last year , I planted the bottoms I've harvest 3 times so far and it's ready again
Travis, I’m so impressed with your culinary vocab- rendering, deglazing. You show your viewers, we southerners know how to cook as well as garden.
I lived in the south and I still hate collards. Southerners think they r the only ones that cook. BS.
@@bethlove2862 wow, dies everyone have to know what you hate?
Yep, that Travis is one sharp tool. He seems to have some real good down home on the farm going on.
Yes…groceries…thank goodness the President elect came up with that.
Any green slightly sautéed with onions and garlic is delicious.
I’m not a lover of collards, but I have a lot of rabbits to feed. And collards & kale provide a lot of greens to feed them. I agree that they are one of the best vegetables to grow
I prefer chard. Actually love it and the stems are good too. Try it. Pretty plant too.
We do have a tendency to spoil our rabbits. The chickens love collards too
I have a tree Collard in my garden that is about 5 years old. This thing wants to reach for the sky but I keep it trimmed to about 6 ft tall. l take cuttings from it, once they are well rooted I share them with my neighbors who like to garden.
Tree collard? I never heard of it.
@@mariatorres9789 There are many varieties of Collared Greens, and I have a couple kinds in my gardens, I also have grown a variety of Tree Kale in the garden, it was featured in the local newspaper's garden section a few years ago.
@@bigdogbob845, Good to know I can grow them from cuttings since there are no seeds to buy where I Iive (Central America) but I can buy the leaves at one grocery store. The outside temperature rarely drops below 65F (average: 75F + overnight) so I think I might be able to grow lots of collard greens year round. American raised pork chops are only $1.20 at the grocery store, good combo.
My dad, who was a fisherman, used to say he was 'filleting' the collard greens by folding them in half lengthwise and cutting out the spine. Then sliced them up for cooking. Soooo good!!
@italiana626sc
I do fillet my kale, and my dogs like the bones! Just one each, cuz I don’t want too much oxalate in their food, but figure there must be something good for them in it since even the picky eater likes them.😊
Fried fish and greens sound really good. the only thing I would add is a fork.
I had my homegrown Collards and Mustards with cornbread last night for dinner.
This fellow must be a spokesman for the Collard Growers of Georgia Association
I love collard green and could eat them everyday. Years ago I read that frozen collard green was the most nutritious thing you could buy in a grocery store.
Tomorrow morning will be the third consecutive heavy frost on my collards making them sweet and ready to eat. I cook the stems and ham hocks together until the meat is falling off the bone before adding the greens.
Yummy
I just harvested my red Russian kale on December 15th in Maine. They can be harvested all year long. You just keep pulling off the lower leaves and allow the top to grow out. Very much like collards but a little bit thinner leaves.
Yum! From North Carolina I love collards. After you eat all the collards from the stalks, wait until spring and then you get to eat collards sprouts, the best eating ever. ❤️🙏
@@lavernfoy4591 collard sprouts? This is my first year growing them. Haven't heard about these sprouts
I agree about collards, and I am still harvesting from mine that I planted from seed last spring! I couldn't believe they survived the wicked hot Florida summer looking like they were done, I had harvested everything out of the plot that I wanted and left that plot go to weeds because I had some pressing projects that kept me away from the garden plot, then to my great surprise I was checking my plots to prepare for winter gardening and I saw that my collards and a couple kale plants had sprang back to life making larger leaves than they had in the spring! I had one 35' row of mixture of collards and kale that have given me a lot of delicious eating this year and they are still going strong!
Thousandhead kale from Baker Creek looks a lot like collards and has huge leaves. Here in Southern California in zone 10 they grow better and are sooo tender. It is what I grow now. I lived in Alabama and learned to appreciate greens!
My garden is booming in Ft Perce Fla,6 relatively new collard plants harvest first time yesterday, Bacon, onion, garlic, then better than bullion chicken stock, teaspoon sugar, and few drops apple cider vinegar cooked over 45 minutes. Everybody loved them with prime rib and mashed potato. First time really eating proper collards one of the best things we ever made. Hooked for life.
Beans, rice and greens. That's a complete meal!
Oh to have a garden full of beautiful greens in the WINTER..... up here in the winter desert... I look at my empty and snow covered garden and long for the future days of sunshine and green vegetables!
Oh I so agree, it was -7 F last night, 5 F now at 10:45 am and everything is covered in a blanket of snow. Makes me dream of moving south for a longer growing season…..but spring will come 😊
Small partially buried greenhouse attached to the south side of your home might be a fun thing to build.
I have lots of collards right now, Zone 9a, but come spring and summer I am jealous of northern gardeners. Oh, how I’d love to be able to grow lettuce for a beautiful salad in the summer.
Dig collards and Kale out of the snow and cook them, good until a Moose comes in at eats them all.
I use my collard green leaves as wraps for salad , tofu and sweet potatoes. It’s so good and nutritious
Do you cook the leaves first?
Collards are by far my favorite greens and that why it's the only one I grow. I've had collards laugh at temps in the low teen without being covered. I grow enough collards to be able to eat them twice a week all year long. Cooked collards in quart freezer bags will last 9 months easily without losing flavor or texture. I actually just ate my last bag from the spring this week, and have put up 8 new bags from my harvest earlier this month. Next harvest should be around the 1st of the year.
I love chard too and it’s so pretty. Have 5 gorgeous collard plants in my front yard near a short rock wall. Looks lovely and taste great.
So glad to find you! LOVE LOVE LOVE COLLARDS!
Need to begin growin' "'em!
MERRY CHRISTMAS!
Collards & Black EYE Peas make our New Year's Meal!❤❤❤
Collard greens and black-eyed peas sound amazing...do you have a recipe?
I strip the stems and dice them fine to cook them first then add the rolled cut leaves. I use smoked turkey wings to flavor the potlikker.
Man! Describing how you cook these DID make me hungry! I have to try these next spring!
Collards are wonderful. I planted some a few years ago in our yard and they've been volunteering themselves since.
Absolutely! As they're petering out at the end of the season, let a few go to seed and dry out. They'll reseed themselves, no planting!
Great video, Travis! I love growing collards, too. I also use the Bright Lights Swiss Chard to give some color to my greens.
Swiss chard is an excellent choice
I cooked collard,spinach,and turnip greens fixed them the same way set out 3 bowls and asked my family which one tasted best they chose collards.
I love collards, but my favorite way to cook them is a quick pan saute or wilt. Bacon grease, a tad of water for steam, and a little salt and pepper. Of course top them with a little pepper vinegar! I like them to still have some life in them, not cooked down in a simmer pot.
Yep.
They're good in Italian beans and greens, too. Wilted in a pot with white beans, then some parmesan mixed in.
I totally agree with all these reasons to grow collards! Sometimes I cook them without pork - just olive oil, onions and garlic, maybe add some black-eyed peas and have a one pot dinner. I am in the NC Piedmont, so I mostly grow heritage William Alexander collards - very delicious and cold hardy. They do bolt in spring if they were exposed to the short days of the solstice. Sometimes I get around that with a second planting in February, along with the lettuce and spinach. Collards planted then do very well and can be harvested way after the lettuce has bolted. If I remember to control the cabbage looper, they last until the following spring in fact. Flavor gets a little cabbagey during summer heat, but I like cabbage okay and the convenience can't be beat. Thanks for covering this interesting topic!
I grow Kale varieties in the UK (I think it's zone 8), these may fill a similar niche, another green you might consider that's cold tolerant is Claytonia which is a salad leaf, there are also the Japanese cold tolerant salads, such as Mibuna and Mizuna.
Do some cooking videos please, You have shown use how to grow all this great stuff, 😊
Our kitchen is very film-friendly, or else I would.
I like to grow top bunch collards, fertilized with blood meal. They're a vibrant blue-green and grow like crazy.
There’s a salad restaurant I’ve been to that made wraps out of collard green leaves, instead of tortillas-very yummy!
If I was cooking the collard greens you’d vote for them lol ~ steam the leaves, then fry them up with olive oil, black mustard seeds or poppy seeds, add pecans and balsamic vinegar.
I am vegan Whole Foods plant based so it comes in handy ❤️
I eat them raw- works great as a wrap.
I like that you call them groceries. Perspective!
Ive been trying so hard to find growers closest to my house. Looks like youre it! Im in Eastman about 100 miles from you. Same zone though. Im just getting started gardening and could use some good tips for SE GA!
And we love collards!
I never had collards before a month ago. They are tasty. I decided to grow some in my hydroponic garden. Thanks for the run down.
My favorite greens: radish tops, beet tops, swiss chard, spinach, turnip tops, mustard, cabbage, then collard. Lil EVOO, butter, red pepper flakes, garlic, mushrooms sautee greens, perfect side. Spinach bolts once it gets warm.
I never had collards until I grew them when I was 55 years old. Wondered why being from the south my family didn’t provide this tasty treat.
I love growing greens! I usually do a pot of mixed greens…..collards, kale, and mustard (my favorite). Right now I also have kohlrabi growing…so I peel and chop up a bulb or two and throw it in the pot too. Yum! I got my Blue Collards from your website….they are very pretty and tasty. Thanks for sharing the info. I always enjoy watching and learning from you.
Morris Heading cabbage collards is at the top as a variety for all the reasons you listed except they are huge! Last longer too. Taste sweeter
I love collards!!!!
Collard greens pot- liquor will fix what ails ya!!!
Don’t forget the cornbread though!!!!
pot liquor is the best
I like them with pork and Navy beans with corn bread.
I grew up eating all kinds of greens and still love them all (except poke🤢) but have developed stomach issues and can't handle them like I used to. I've noticed that collards are one of the few that don't shred my stomach after I eat them.
Thank you for the info. First time I had collards I was 18 and on vacation without my parents. My great aunt prepared a mid day meal with collards. I had never heard of them -much eaten any. They were so good. I fell in love with them and had a 2nd helping. Later that evening I went with my great grandma to visit another relative and after the car ride on bumpy winding roads my stomach wasn’t feeling very good. Oh no. Up came all the contents of my stomach in the once lovely flower bed by their front door. That was over 50 years ago. Too much of a good thing…I’ve not had any since. 😮
Wish I had some of those collards now. Mine have finally been killed by the cold but they were the last greens I had to harvest.
Thank you Thank you ... May God love you and yours......
I never liked collards until I grew my own. I only grew them because they were in a mixed 6 pack I bought with other fall veggies. When the one plant I grew was mature and I tasted it I was totally surprised by how sweet and good it was! Now they are on my 'must plant' list for fall crops. In addition to cooking them the way you mentioned, I like them as a sandwich wrap in place of tortillas or flatbread. I just cut off the stem and stiff part near the stem and use the rest of those giant leaves to wrap up whatever sammy fillings I want.
Love that sandwich idea @PlowAndPantryHomestead
Thank you for taking the time to share this information.
I love love collard greens but am not lucky in growing them cabbage worms eat them up over and over all the time but I am not giving up😁💕💕
Paper wasp, aka yellow jackets, eat cabbage lopers. It’s interesting to see the insects slice up the caterpillars to take them back to their nest.
Have you tried Thousand Head Kale? They get 3' long leaves and are very frost hardy. You could probably grow them all through your winter down there. Same with Giant Winter Spinach. In any rate, they are also good for your livestock. By the way, I think those Louisiana Evergreen Shallots I got from you, will survive this winter in the greenhouse...
Haven't tried that variety of kale. But thanks for the tip!
Love collards! Aside from leaving the rib/stems on, everything else you said goes: bacon/bacon grease, chicken broth, vinegar, sugar, hot sauce on mine, not on my husband's. I have some little bitty transplants started very late, so I don't know if I can plant them out this year. It was an afterthought, but I'll do better at planning next time.
Should mustard greens be succession planted, like lettuce, or do the original plants produce all winter?
We can usually harvest ours 3-4 times before they start looking rough. But yes, you can succession plant them.
A wonderful plant for those with little space. Collards-kale and chard, you do need to experiment sometimes with what suits you. Don't get discouraged . Chopped up in stew or soup is good too.
AHHH LUVVVV MAH COLLARD GREENS!!!
Thank you for telling us how to cook them! This Yankee girl had them once in a restaurant and loved them. I grew some but didn't know how to properly cook them. Thank you!
Don’t give up cooking or growing them! Many UA-cam videos on cooking them to watch and decide which you like best!
We threw some collards in with our kale and made collard chips. Wow were they good! Just another way to enjoy collards.
Yes. Yes. Yes! And they are SO beautiful and green in The depths of the winter months. They are like massive green ‘flowers’ in the garden! I can see our patch actually in a flower bed as I look down a path from our back door. Nearer by are the white pansies, wood chard and purple kale adding color to the winter beds! When we want a different flavor than our traditional Southern method, I stir fry/wilt them with some think apple slices, a little apple cider vinegar, a little brown sugar and or a spoon full or two of apple juice concentrate or juice… all depends on what I have on hand. Add some birds eye pepper sauce to any way you cook ‘em and yummy!
Try smoked turkey wing instead of ham hock. Gives good smoke flavor but less grease
Ham hocks are great. You can mix mustard and collards as well as tunup greens. Salt your water. Goes so good with corn bread or rice
Thanks for the video! We are loving our Alabama blues. Wishing we could share them with victims in WNC &east TN! Sending what help we CAN give.
Thank you for reminding us in WNC. Our distribution sites are full of canned and boxed food. Produce is an unfortunate luxury.
Chicken stock, crushed red peppers, and a couple tablespoons of fresh minced garlic. I change back and forth on cooking these. 😊
I'm way up north in Canada and with snow on the ground I won't be growing these for another couple of months, but you've peaked my interest for the spring garden👍
Collards with turnips and hamhock.A little hot souce.Do not forget that cornbread
Thank you for the good "green" information, I want to try it now! Thx!
Merry Christmas to you and the family!Love and Prayers ❤️🙏🎄
Merry Christmas!
Greens are about the only thing I can grow successfully in my backyard garden in winter. The sun gets lower on the horizon, and I just don’t get enough direct sun for much else, but my greens will still do well. It’s almost Christmas and I’ve harvested a mess of mustard and about to cut some collards for Christmas dinner. It’s Christmas so I have to share, but I could eat the whole pot. 😁
Man, I learn so much from each video. I've been having some success with swiss chard down here in 9A, but I think its time to add some collards and mustard greens.
Collards, going in my garden next year, thanks for the generous information 😊
I put a ton in my freezer this year by just vacuum sealing as much as I could stuff into each bag. I cook them with country ham.
I enjoyed the video and the different points. Thank you.
Collards are a must have for New Years! We love all greens, but collards are our favorite. MERRY CHRISTMAS 🎄
I use chicken stock ,,,,ham hocks and onions (some use smoked turkey leg) and yes vinegar helps take the bitterness out ,,,,,,I ad picklin seasoning in as well .......then louisiana hot sauce in the bowl while eating them ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,Great for people with diabetes It is a superfood yum oh and the broth is delicious its called pot liquor
I found a variety of collards that adapted to the Sahara desert! They grow all summer! They are called Sahara collards. I love regular collards with cornbread, black eyed peas, a full meal. We use apple cider vinegar and bacon grease with the collards along with chopped onion and cooked in mild chicken broth, yummy! We got one that we left alone and it came back for the third year. We roll them up like you do. We cut off the naked stems.
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I have use them raw to do veggie roll ups you can put avocado, onion, radish, cucumber, what ever you like roll ups and it’s delicious. And as you say keeps you full for a long time… I have not grown them however I will start winter garden is the way to go in the desert as you dont have all the bugs. summer is hard in the low desert… thank you for the information.
It's late December in '24 and you have challenged me to try collards in my garden this coming spring. Early in your presentation you compared mustard greens to the collards. I know your gardens always look super clean of weeds. Jokingly I figure you could have both mustard and collards in the same area. Broadcast your mustard sees between rows of your collards. that way you could maybe get back into the pleasures of weeding your garden. lol!
I'm up here in Western New York, and I see my parsley survives the snow, but I don't know about collards. You definitely convinced me to plant them in the spring, though.
Collard greens look like a true gift in the garden. I haven’t grown them yet, but I heard they are easy to grow, packed with nutrition! I am going to be adding some to my container garden beds! 🥬❤️
I grew collards for the first time last summer. I'm in the high desert in the mountain west where it freezes in the winter, so mine have been gone for a month or more now, though they were pretty cold hardy compared to other greens. It got really hot last summer, but they didn't really get bitter when other greens did. I never heard of them when I was growing up and didn't have much of a clue what to do with them. My chickens loved them. I hope to learn new ways to use them. They were really easy to grow.
Collards are my favorite!
I like mine with a little shrimp boil seasoning.
Love the personality!! I learned a lot and enjoyed the presentation!! Im gathering a list of fruits,veggies and herbs and this nice vide just pops on up for me. hahaha
My collards grow right through the winter....and mine made it through that super cold winter too. I have to confess, I have never really cared for collard greens, and don't eat them. I grow them for reason # 6 - they make a great fertilizer since they are high in nitrogen.
Collard greens is the only thing in my garden to survive 116degree temps in July ever summer
We grow Alabama blue collards & love them. For a variety dish, i will sometimes cut a few leaves like you do, with the leaves rolled up into small strips. These I cook til tender. I'll crumble up a package of Maruchan noodles into a frypan with olive oil ~2 tbsp seasoned with chicken boullion & a cup or more water. Add the collards as the noodles soften & soak up that delicious boullion. Makes a wonderful dish.
We love our greens, Kale, Collards, Mustards, all good.
You have made me hungry for collard greens. I’m going to buy some now!😂
My spinach and beets produced a ton this year
I have some put up in mason jars! You are making me hungry. Corn bread and greens sounds pretty good! I have a jar or two of bacon grease.
Just ordered me some Alabama Blue Collards in the mail. Collards are my favorite greens.
You are making me hungry just listening ... -8c here in canada... guess I have to wait for a while
I am team Bacon for my Collards, and I use Chicken Stock instead of water 😋 You makin me hungry Travis!
You are a star, Travis !
I grow collards! So delish cooked right from the garden.
I’ve been adding some of the Louisiana evergreen shallots into the pot with my collards greens. A little bacon, salt, pepper and they’re perfect
Love me some collards. Planted some early spring and they are still going. Died back a bit in summer but exploded again in fall.
My mother always cooked both together, with a ham hock 😁
And also remember the broccoli greens they are amazing in noodles too
Thanks for this video. I bought some Flash collards (but didn't know it until you mentioned the name) and they have lasted almost three seasons here in North Florida. However, it never hurts to have different types, I'm definitely looking into this type.