{"product_id":"green-glaze-collards","title":"Green Glaze Collards","description":"\u003cp\u003eGreen Glaze Collards are a beautiful, glossy, dark green, and historic variety known for its taste and some resistance to cabbage worms and cabbage loopers. Food historian Michael Twitty says this variety \"is my personal favorite. They are pretty, waxy, crisp, tough against bugs and extremely delicious. They also happen to be the oldest variety we have\/know of collard green dating back to the late 18th and early 19th centuries, with the Georgia Southern or Creole collard out of the Deep South going back to the 1860s-1880s.\" See \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/afroculinaria.com\/2016\/01\/16\/a-letter-to-the-newgrorati-of-collards-and-amnesia\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eTwitty's Afroculinaria blog\u003c\/a\u003e for a description of how this European crop combined with African tastes and became so closely associated with southern Black foodways. A sneak peek: \"In tropical West Africa, greens were available year round in gardens and markets and figured prominently in regular meals.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWilliam Woys Weaver describes the origin of this particular variety: \"One of the oldest [collards] to survive ... is the Green Glaze collard, a colewort that evolved out of the Green Glaze cabbage introduced in 1820 by David Landreth of Philadelphia.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOur seeds this year were grown by \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/sistahseeds\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eAmirah Mitchell of Sistah Seeds\u003c\/a\u003e as part of her Seed Keeping Fellowship at Greensgrow Farms in Philadelphia. This is her favorite type of collard greens as well, and collards are one of her most dear ancestral foods.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDays to maturity:\u003c\/strong\u003e 79\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSeeds per pack:\u003c\/strong\u003e 160-170\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eGermination rate:\u003c\/strong\u003e 88% on 11\/08\/2021\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003ePlanting \/ harvesting notes\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEither start indoors or direct sow. Sow seeds 1\/4\" deep in potting soil 4-8 weeks before the last frost, and transplant when plants have three true leaves spaced at 1-2' apart, as early as just before the last frost. If we are growing them in the Fall, we either transplant as mentioned above or we directly sow our seeds 1\/4\" deep every few inches, and cover with hoops and plastic row covers. Regularly harvest these delicious leaves when young and tender!\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eSeed keeping notes\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIsolate by 1\/2 mile from other flowering members of \u003cem\u003eB. oleracea\u003c\/em\u003e, including Collards, Kale, Broccoli, Cauliflower, and Brussels Sprouts to avoid unwanted cross-pollination. Allow seed pods to turn brown and dry before seed harvest. Protect from birds.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Greensgrow","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42042816463086,"sku":"BRA-019","price":5.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2406\/3467\/products\/GreenGlazeCollards1.jpg?v=1636663460","url":"https:\/\/trueloveseeds.sbs\/products\/green-glaze-collards","provider":"Truelove Seeds","version":"1.0","type":"link"}