Tree Collards
 

Does anyone have experience growing tree collards? Looks like an interesting garden addition and healthy way to have collards all year. Advice and comments appreciated.

Never heard of them, I hope someone has grown them.

Tree Collard Cuttings offered on Amazon [url]https://www.amazon.com/Tree-Collard-Cuttings-Perennial-Collards/dp/B01CPQVU3W[/url]

I'm growing them. I bought seeds this year. Still alive but only about 10inch plants
though I did start late and may try and overwinter.

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[I]The walking stick cabbage, also known as tree kale, has been cultivated on the Isle of Jersey for centuries. This startling plant's thick stems can reach 7 feet in one growing season and up to 10 feet the second growing season, are turned into walking sticks for tourists. They have even been grown into sturdy roofbeams for thatched island cottages, plus providing fine edible greens the whole time. Proper name: Brassica oleracea longata 'Walking Stick'[/I]

Very cool. I think I will try them.

Your warmer winters are more promising than mine.
And I had no idea a kale/cabbage
would successfully grow from cuttings. who knew.

I have grown Walking Stick Kale, just as a curiousity and it did grow very very tall. I had it on a community garden some years ago and left it there.It looked like a plam tree

[QUOTE=Jeannine Anne;754666]I have grown Walking Stick Kale, just as a curiousity and it did grow very very tall. I had it on a community garden some years ago and left it there.It looked like a plam tree[/QUOTE]

How was the flavor? And were the leaves about the same texture as regular kale or more tough?

I am sorry but I didn't eat it, apart from a raw bit when if first greened up and I thought it was a tad strong compared to the others I grew,it was more like a Scottish kale.It was grown just as a curiosity really and as a friend gave me the seeds of course I had to grow one', the other little plnts I shared with others and thete were two or three still growing when I left.

It was interesting though and my rabbits loved the greens.It was about 7 feet when I last saw it.First year planted it,then it lost a lot of leaves in the winter, but the second year it regrew very well, the second winter it lost leaves again and I expected that was it but it had started to come back when I left there in April.

It seemed a very tough plant.

Not much info, the diameter of the trunk was about the same as a kwi fruit.

Thnanks for the info. Boy, that's one tough plant to survive Canadian winters and keep on truckin'!

GoDawgs, sorry, I didn't say but I was back in the in the East of England for 9 years and I grew it then, which I might add is actually tougher than the Pacific North West where I am now. So I know it would grow here in Coastal BC,just 20 minutes from the Washington border. So I think weather wise you will be fine.

I love tree collards! Have grown them at least a decade. In the SF Bay Area, they survived 20F at night for 2-3 days but were not happy. I think they are the best tasting kale, but are best cooked ( red Russian is my favorite raw kale). They need to be renewed every 3 years for best production, from cuttings, which are easy.

In central CA, they don’t seem as happy and I haven’t found the right place yet. Harlequin bugs and bagrada bugs love them too, unfortunately.