![]() ![]() Last January I thought I may have overpicked because they wilted during the low temperatures (in the 20s), but they revived within a week. I've been harvesting a grocery bagful every couple weeks or so, year-round. ![]() 'Western Front' from Peters Seed and Research (strongly resembles Red Russian kale) and B. He mentions 2 other types of perennial kale: B. ![]() He does say he grew one variety from seed and was unimpressed by the "rubbery texture and strong cabbage flavor of the leaves" but that the plant he got (with purple leaves in cool weather) "tastes fantastic." He calls it Brassica oleracea acephala 'Tree Collards', 'Walking Stick Kale' - he calls it "an heirloom variety or cluster of varieties" - and says he got a plant from the Bay Area Seed Interchange Library (at the Ecology Center in Berkeley). I've been reading the new book _Perennial Vegetables_ by Eric Toensmeier. I agree - regular collards don't do nearly as well and don't have the sweetness of the tree collard or walking kale. Another person said these purple-tinged ones taste the best. One person walking through the community garden said she used to have collards like these, with the purple cast, growing up over her house, 20 ft. They now look identical, with purple-tinged collardlike leaves (the older leaves, and more purple as the weather gets colder), though the latter is 3 times as big as the former. I got one plant as an 18-inch cutting from someone else's tree collards (it's taken a couple years to get prolific enough to harvest), and another as a seed-grown walking kale (as a 3-inch plant from a plant exchange). ![]()
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