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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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