How to Harvest Collard Greens to promote Growth?

In this video I show how to harvest collard greens to promote growth. Cutting your greens will promote more growth if the leaves are cut. I encourage everyone not to pull the entire plant out the ground. This will give you an endless supply of collard greens for a long time. I will have Thanksgiving collard greens, Christmas collards, and New Years Collards. Once the leaves are harvested pull the weeds away from the plants. The weeds steal nutrients away from your collard greens. When this happens the leaves will not get as big and we do not want that. Growing your own feels amazing and it saves Money. I have backyard Collards so I don't have to go to the store. Backyard collard greens will taste better that the store Collards. I have very fresh collard greens that you can't get out the store. Once the leaves are cut I used fish fertilizer to help increase growth stimulation. I also encourage everyone to grow there own Collard green starts.

[@jamesbales941]

Young man, it was a pleasure to watch this video. Both my folks were raised in the country and we always had a pot of greens to eat. My mom used to mix collard, mustard and turnip greens in her pot. I can remember back when I was a little boy and my great granddaddy would give me a small cup of the "pot liquor" after all the greens were gone. He said the juice would cure anything that ailed you. To this day, I still drink that warm juice with a piece of corn bread.

[@GrowSomethingTasty]

HELLO, Mr. James, I'm glad you liked the video. My mom tells me memories just like yours. They had greens and corn bread many days. Are your ailments healed? I need some of that. Thanks for sharing your memories. I appreciate it.

[@SA-nk8sc]

Thanks for sharing

[@HappyHeart_Garden]

Those are beautiful and tasty looking.😍💚 Collards are one of my favorites to grow. I grow them year round until it gets too cold. We eat them A LOT! I think I got lucky in a way by starting my gardening journey in South Korea. I had no choice but to grow from seed. I didn’t know where to go to buy starts and the ones I found looked horrible. Now, I couldn’t see myself doing it any other way. I love dropping seeds!😊 Happy growing!

[@GrowSomethingTasty]

Hey Natalie, how are you? Yes, growing from seed is the way. It is fun to do. Yes, the collard greens are tasty. Everyone, I give them too loves them. How long did you live in South Korea?

[@HappyHeart_Garden]

@@GrowSomethingTasty Yes! So fun, so satisfying! They’re my plant babies.☺️🌱 I’m still here. Been here almost 4 years.😊

[@teresathomley3703]

I grew collards in containers this past fall and I cut them just like you did. Real good video.

[@GrowSomethingTasty]

HEY Teresa!!! That is awesome. Thanks for liking the video.

[@richhare3765]

Thank you Mr. Brown. Great video. Still have a few weeks before I harvest my first crop but looking forward thanks to your video.

[@GrowSomethingTasty]

HELLO Richhare, thanks. I really appreciate it. A few weeks, cool. I know that's exciting. Thanks for stopping by and commenting. I'm will try to warm up now, I was out fishing all day in the cold rain for 12 hours. Take care.

[@barbaraking1545]

. I going to make a bigger plant bed i want MORE of everything i love to see it grow my grandkids too. I will be eating my plants in adout 3 to 4 weeks💯💯💯👋👋👋

[@GrowSomethingTasty]

HELLLO Mrs. Barbara, that sounds awesome. I am with you, I love to see it grow as well. Let me how it goes in 3 or 4 weeks.

[@curlykiki8]

my mom loves collards! i need to learn how to cook them.

[@GrowSomethingTasty]

HEY 👋 I bet your mom will be cooking greens for tomorrow if she loves them. I bet your mom will teach you!!!

[@chachilovesvinyl]

This is great! Thank you. New to growing collards so this is super helpful.

[@GrowSomethingTasty]

HEY, Sara!!! I'm glad it was helpful to you. I hope you have amazing harvests. Thanks for commenting.

[@maryking4483]

Great information! Just what I need to know. Thanks.

[@GrowSomethingTasty]

HELLO Mary, I'm glad the information was helpful. Thanks for watching and commenting.

[@jrippee05]

You can also use Neem Oil to get keep the bugs off the greens.

[@GrowSomethingTasty]

HELLO Jrippee, thanks for your tip. I have some need oil. Thanks for watching as well.

[@00jlove]

Enjoyed! I just started my collards this year.

[@GrowSomethingTasty]

HEY, OOjlove!!! I'm glad you enjoyed the video. It is great to hear you just started this year. I hope you have a great gardening year.

[@ibdam1]

Thank you for sharing 👍🏾👍🏾

[@GrowSomethingTasty]

HEY ibdam!!! You are welcome👍🏼👍🏼

[@elainewhite4226]

Hi Mr. Brown, I just purchased some collar greens from the store yesterday. Hopefully mine will be ready for New Year’s. Thanks for teaching us how to crop collards greens . This will be my first time growing greens so that helps me a lot.

[@GrowSomethingTasty]

HEY Mrs. White, I'm glad you are trying new things. I think your collards are going to be great. I hope your greens will be ready also. You purchased greens yesterday and I harvested greens today and made a video, we thinking a like 👍

[@gunny2444]

Great video… first year growing collards for my wife and they are huge. Now I have to find recipes. Keep up the good work

[@GrowSomethingTasty]

HEY, Gunny!!!! That is awesome, I know your wife is happy. I am glad you liked the video. I will do my best to keep it up. Thanks, Gunny.

[@urbanharvestdfw]

Nice

[@GrowSomethingTasty]

HELLO urban harvestdfw, Thanks for watching and commenting.

[@urbanharvestdfw]

@@GrowSomethingTasty just made me a big o pot of Greens unfortunately I didn't have enough in the garden yet these groceries are ridiculous 2.00 for tiny little batch

[@Ljerzey]

Thanks for all the Gr8 tips brah!!Happy Thanksgiving to you and urs

[@GrowSomethingTasty]

Hey 👋 LaRon, thanks brah!! I appreciate that and Happy Thanksgiving to you and yours.

[@aunttriciaattic]

Hi thanks for the video. always start my college greens in the ground in one spot and I separate them and I start in April I was late this year they are as big as yours only difference something is attacking them

[@GrowSomethingTasty]

HEY Aunttriciaattic!!! You are welcome. That is great they are so big but sorry to hear that something is attacking them. BT might help you if its a caterpillar.

[@ThinkPraise]

Thank you for your video - have a nice Thanksgiving 2023. Balcony garden here, I’m growing a Jolly Collard Tree, I’ve harvested twice and it’s very big.

[@GrowSomethingTasty]

HELLO Morning Glory, you are welcome. You have a nice Thanksgiving as well. Balcony gardening, wow, that is great. Jolly Tree Collards, I must look it up. I might have to grow it. Thanks for watching and commenting. Oh, if you are interested in making fertilizer, I'm dropping a video tomorrow about how to make bone meal. Now you are the first person to know it's coming out tomorrow. Have a good day.

[@wandasinger7713]

Your greens look so yummy. I have two collard green trees. They’re about six feet tall and produce lots of greens. Can you recommend what I can do about the white mofts. Those creatures eat my greens up, putting holes in every leaf. Blessings to you and your family ❤

[@GrowSomethingTasty]

HEY, Wanda!!! Thanks. The moths lay larvae, and they go to town. The best strategy is to use row covers to block them. You can companion plants, so use mint, but that needs to go in pots so it does not take over your garden. You cN spray BT on your plants, and when they eat the leaves, it kills them. Picking the larvae off the plants and then cover them will help. I think I will be using row covers when I plant some of my veggies. Keeping them out is the best way to go, and you will feel at ease. I hope this helps. Blessings to you and your family as well.

[@vernawhitehead2990]

U make it so easy to plant.

[@GrowSomethingTasty]

HELLO Verna, I appreciate it. You are so kind. NOW, the video next week will show that same, raise bed, but it looks very different. I mean, Wow. Thanks for watching and for your nice comment.

[@Truth4AllPodcast]

I started collard greens may 31, 2023 but they are just really germinating

[@GrowSomethingTasty]

Cool, the small seeds take a long time for me to germinate. I got to get ready to order some for the fall and, of course, clean my seed trays.

[@Truth4AllPodcast]

@@GrowSomethingTasty they have sprouted and germinated but they are all small right now the collard greens.

[@Truth4AllPodcast]

@@GrowSomethingTasty that is really awesome. I am new at gardening tried last year but the cold 🥶 took everything but started over and trusting God for guidance in growing food 🙏🏾

[@bryancannon631]

Love the fish emulsion fertilizer. They make a potassium and phosphorus fertilizer called more bloom also. It works great for all the blooming veggies

[@GrowSomethingTasty]

HELLO Bryan, yes, I love it as well. I make my fish fertilizer, do you? Hey, i will check that fertilizer out. Thanks for watching and sharing the information on more bloom fertilizer.

[@bryancannon631]

@@GrowSomethingTasty I don't make it. I buy the Alaskan fish emulsion fertilizer. Planting collards for the first time this year

[@GrowSomethingTasty]

Cool, I used to buy that brand, too. I hope you have great success with the greens.

[@FLOKADO]

I container garden. Just harvested my turnip w/bottoms and collards. I left the collard plants in place but I did strip all the leaves😬 I prayed over them and told them to go and grow🤞🏽 Your collards are beautiful.

[@GrowSomethingTasty]

HELLO @FLOKADO, That sounds great. Having a harvest is always good. Prayer works, I believe your collards will grow. Thanks, I get a lot of compliments on those collards. Thanks for watching and responding.

[@pjharrison5976]

Thank You your green are Beautiful

[@GrowSomethingTasty]

HELLO PJ, I appreciate that. Thanks for watching and commenting.

[@aaronwilliams6989]

Sounds delicious!

[@stevesither7270]

Thanks Bear ...great info man...... 👍

[@GrowSomethingTasty]

HELLO Steve, thanks. Anytime.

[@irahandwerker8557]

love your show and i love collards i had a great crop of them from my fall crop even foze alot but now they are starting to flower fom the heat in south ga do you think i should emove the p;ants and start new crop in fall or cut them way down i kept removing the flowe buds but now they are in flower thank you

[@GrowSomethingTasty]

HEY, Ira!!!! You can keep cutting flowers off and harvest the leaves. If the taste of the greens is not good, then you can take the plants out and plant something else. My kale plant has flowered, so I planted new ones, and I let the bolting kale plant stay. Now, I have seeds pods that formed. I have to wait until they turn brown to harvest the seeds. I have never done that before, I wonder if you could do that. I really want to take the kale out because it's so big. But I'm saving money because it has loads of seed pods.

[@user-si9vr5ml5m]

Great video! What kind of collards are they?

[@GrowSomethingTasty]

HELLO Joyce, those are Georgia collards. I'm glad you liked the video. Thanks for watching and for your comment.

[@gardenmike8115]

What kinda collards are they.....good info thanks

[@GrowSomethingTasty]

HELLO, gardenmike, those are Georgia Collard. You are welcome, Garden Mike, anytime. Thanks for watching and commenting.

[@nancynevels2238]

Thanks!!

[@GrowSomethingTasty]

HELLO Nancy, you are totally welcome. Thanks for stopping by.

[@brandonmonroe7050]

Very nice. What variety are these collards I must have missed it

[@GrowSomethingTasty]

HELLO Brandon, those are Georgia Collards. Thanks for watching and commenting. Come anytime to see what's going on.

[@brandonmonroe7050]

@GrowSomethingTasty they look fantastic I just ordered some morris heading here in Texas for the fall

[@GrowSomethingTasty]

@@brandonmonroe7050 Cool, I'm will try those too. I never grew those before.

[@pd8559]

I'm breeding my own landrace of collards. I'm in year two after the crossing of more than twenty varieties. I'm selecting for subsistence growing, no additional watering or fertilizer, for adaption for wood chip covered ground. After year three I can select for other traits after all the weak genetic plants self select out of my landrace seeds.

[@GrowSomethingTasty]

That is cool breeding your own collards

[@pd8559]

@@GrowSomethingTasty landraces are the easiest to breed as all the work is selection. Both nature and your local soil and climate and the grower who chooses what plants to keep and what plants to just eat. There’s a lot of eating in the beginning 🤣. But by the third year the magic happens and your seed will outperform anything you buy and plant in your garden. But selection is powerful and a two edged sword. If you grow under plastic and or with lots of fertilizer and sprays and trellis and inputs you save your seed you save will be selected to grow in those conditions. If you grow without those conditions and inputs the plants that survive and you save seeds from will create new plants adapted to those conditions instead. If you prefer fruits or vegetables rich in orange carotenoids you select those plants to save seed from. Next year more plants are growing a lot more cartenoid rich plants. The next almost all. It’s very easy to get started with as you don’t follow any separation rules of trying to keep inbred varietals, heirlooms or hybrids pure. Read Lofthouse if you want to learn more of the landrace gardening method.

[@Youdontknowmeson1324]

@@GrowSomethingTastyyou should try growing tree collards

[@MarlonVell]

Thanks for sharing! I'm planning to grow collards for the first time in the fall. Any tips on planting? Transplants, direct seeds, etc... thanks for what you do. I'd enjoy conversing with you via email if possible. You're definitely doing things that I'm looking forward to exploring.

[@GrowSomethingTasty]

HELLO Marlon, I always fertilize the area with granular fertilizer. The fertilizer breaks down over time. I like to grow from transplants, but people sow seeds. If you have heavy bug pressure on the collards, you can spray neem oil or use a caterpillar spray if it's caterpillars eating the leaves. You can use shade cloth to protect them. My email is [e-mail]

[@missdevemissdeve8266]

Hi mr. Brown I need to know when should I plant my collards greens, and how often to water them. And to fertilize them I think I trust you better and I live here in georgia it's very hot here. I normally plant or rather start from seed and for some reason they die what am I'm doing wrong. HELP

[@GrowSomethingTasty]

HELLO Missdevemissdeve, I plant my in September, but I hear some people have collards year round. It is hard to say how to water plants since zones and climates are different. In my area, I sometimes times water once a week or something once every 2 weeks. If I grow my collards in the ground since I have mulch, I rarely water.

[@boonmsgt]

Think I may have over watered mine. The leaves have a light yellowish tint. But still going good. I backed off water. What do you think?

[@GrowSomethingTasty]

Hello Boon MSgt, yeah if you are watering to much back off. Overwatering I a common cause of yellowing leaves. If you don't notice a change it could be a Nutrient deficiency. Every couple of weeks I will water with fish fertilizer. Let me know how it goes.

[@boonmsgt]

@@GrowSomethingTasty ok thanks. I did some work on it. Don't think nutrient. Deficient. Because I use plenty of chicken poop and other compost. 😂. I did clip them back today and gave the yellow to the chickens. I love my collards so hopefully they come back. I'm in Florida and it has still been hot so hoping next week cold front helps. Want to chow some down Christmas.

[@GrowSomethingTasty]

@@boonmsgt Do you have chickens? I wish I could have chickens. I hope you get collard greens for Christmas, I have to cut mine again. The leaves are huge.

[@boonmsgt]

@@GrowSomethingTasty I do. Have 12 of them. Collards should be ready for Christmas. Cold snap moving in. I also have cabbage, broccoli, cauliflower, arugula, beans, peas, celery, asparagus, kale. Creating a pond now with a creek on property. Plan to put some catfish in it.

[@GrowSomethingTasty]

@@boonmsgt Wow I need to get some land. That sounds great. My wife asked me if I want to move on the lake. She know I love to fish. My dad love catfish

[@walldrenbacker]

what percentage would you cut back from a young plant? I've read that for other plants you can leave 1/3 behind and others not that much...

[@GrowSomethingTasty]

HEY, Walldren!!! I will leave 5 or 6 leaves near the center and harvest the rest.

[@pollywally]

What is the string for in your garden collard green garden

[@GrowSomethingTasty]

HELLO Tywanda, how are you? The string is how I mark my one foot squares. In this bed, I use the square foot garden method. Thanks for your question and for watching.

[@dclark412]

What do you do to keep the pest away and to keep them from eating holes through the leaves?

[@GrowSomethingTasty]

HELLO dclark412, you can companion plant to keep pests away. I did not do that for my collards last year. I might try to see if I can plant leeks. I did buy a caterpillar spray one year, it was an organic spray. You can use shade cloth to cover your plants. If you have raised beds, you can make pvc hoops in it and cover with the cloth. The sun rays can get in, but the bugs can't.

[@dclark412]

@@GrowSomethingTasty Thank you 😊

[@Shrae-ne3km]

Hi! What was the name of the caterpillar spray?

[@GrowSomethingTasty]

HELLO Shrae, the name of the spray is caterpillar Killer Spray with BT. The brand is by ferti-lome . Thanks for watching and for your question.

[@susanarthur9175]

How do you know when to start harvesting?

[@GrowSomethingTasty]

HEY, Susan!!! When the plant is full of large leaves, I cut the larger ones off and leave the small ones. That's how I do it.