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Help with name of heirloom collard

16 years ago

My husbands grandmother got collard seed from her mother when she married in 1920 and her mother got them from her mother. I am trying to find the name of the collard. It has a head like a cabbage and the outer leaves are bigger in circumference than a bushel basket. The collard has an almost hint of blue in the leaves. Does anyone know the name of the collard? I started growing and saving the seed. Dale

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farmerdilla
16 years ago
If it actually heads like a cabbage, it is probably the cabbage collard. Morris Heading is also a possilbility.

Here is a link that might be useful: Cabbage Collard
disgett
Original Author
16 years ago
Hi that looks like the cabbage collard. The Morris Heading collard doesn't get as large a head as these do and Morris is alot darker green. Thanks, Dale
rodger
16 years ago
My great Aunt use to grow a heading collard that made heads the size of cabbage with very large leaves just as you described and it is not the Morris heading. I have grown the Morris heading for several years. She use to make collard kraut from the heads. They were great. Rodger

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