{"id":371,"date":"2017-03-24T12:01:15","date_gmt":"2017-03-24T12:01:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.okragardensupply.com\/blog\/?p=371"},"modified":"2017-03-24T12:01:15","modified_gmt":"2017-03-24T12:01:15","slug":"when-to-harvest-collard-greens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.okragardensupply.com\/learn\/when-to-harvest-collard-greens\/","title":{"rendered":"When To Harvest Collard Greens"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Photo Caption: Healthy Collard leaf ready for harvest<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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As I mentioned before<\/a>. \u00a0I have more collards than I can eat.\u00a0\u00a0That may not be accurate. It would be more accurate to say I am growing more collards than I am eating.<\/p>\n

So, when to harvest collard greens?\u00a0\u00a0I wait for the plant to be established, and this timing is completely variable.\u00a0\u00a0The seeds that I started in January are now plants barely large enough to transplant.\u00a0 Some plants will be destined to produced leaves the size of your mailbox, some will only grow paperback novel sized leaves.\u00a0 So, it isn\u2019t about the size of the leaves but instead the sturdiness of the plant.\u00a0 Just talk to the plant, she will tell you when she is robust enough to loose a few leaves. \u00a0I wouldn’t harvest any leaves until at least at least 10 leaves are on the plant<\/p>\n

On a collard plant the leaves grow in a spiral around the stalk.\u00a0 When two layers of leaves are the same size, that is the maximum size leaf that plant will produce for the time being. So, harvest all the leaves of that size.\u00a0 Let smaller leaves toward the center say on the plant and grow. I use kitchen scissors to cut the base of the leaf from the stalk. If you just pull he leaf you will likely damage the stalk and impact the plant’s production.\u00a0 Collards can grow for a long time if you harvest in this way.\u00a0 My grand mamma plant, which will receive a proper introduction in the future is two and a half.<\/p>\n

And when it is it too late to harvest?\u00a0 You will notice that the oldest leaves on the plant start to become shiny and brittle looking.\u00a0 In this case you have waited too long.\u00a0 Leave those old flakey leaves on the plant for the bugs and harvest the prettier, flexible leaves above.<\/p>\n

So, harvest and be happy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

  As I mentioned before. \u00a0I have more collards than I can eat.\u00a0\u00a0That may not be accurate. It would be more accurate to say I am growing more collards than I am eating. So, when to harvest collard greens?\u00a0\u00a0I wait for the plant to be established, and this timing is completely variable.\u00a0\u00a0The seeds that I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plants","category-vegetables"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.okragardensupply.com\/learn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.okragardensupply.com\/learn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.okragardensupply.com\/learn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.okragardensupply.com\/learn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.okragardensupply.com\/learn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=371"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.okragardensupply.com\/learn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.okragardensupply.com\/learn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.okragardensupply.com\/learn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.okragardensupply.com\/learn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}