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Collards Champion Seeds
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Champion is a traditional Collard producing large, smooth, tender blue-green leaves with a mild cabbage-like flavour. Vigorous, dependable and notably cold hardy, it continues producing leafy greens over a long harvest period and tolerates poorer soils better than many other brassicas.
Collards are an ancient form of non-heading cabbage and have been cultivated in Europe for more than 2,000 years. They later became deeply embedded in the food traditions of the American South, where slow-cooked collard greens remain an important part of regional cuisine.
The broad leaves are highly nutritious, providing vitamins A, C and K along with folate, calcium and other minerals. Young leaves can be shredded finely for salads and slaws, while mature leaves are excellent steamed, sautéed, braised or slow-cooked. They can also be used as sturdy edible wraps in place of cabbage leaves.
Champion prefers full sun and fertile, well-drained soil with a near-neutral pH, although it is more forgiving of poorer ground than many heading brassicas. Keep plants consistently watered for the most tender leaves. Mature plants tolerate frost well, and cool weather can improve the sweetness and flavour of the foliage.
Seed count: approximately 300 seeds/g
Approximately 120 seeds per packet
When to Plant (Australia)
Tropics: Autumn to winter
Subtropics: Late summer to winter
Mild climates: Late summer to autumn and spring
Cold climates: Spring to summer, or late summer for an autumn crop
Planting / Sowing
Sow directly or raise in trays approximately 5–10 mm deep. Keep consistently moist until established.
Transplant or thin seedlings to approximately 40–50 cm apart. Harvest individual outer leaves once plants are established, leaving the central growing point intact so plants continue producing.
For the sweetest and most tender greens, harvest young leaves regularly. Established plants can withstand cold conditions and light frost.
If saving seed, remember that Collards will cross-pollinate readily with other compatible Brassica oleracea crops, including cabbage, kale, broccoli, cauliflower and Brussels sprouts, so adequate isolation is required to maintain the variety true to type.
Maturity: approximately 60–75 days.
Due to quarantine restrictions, TAS has an 800g limit per each seed variety and WA has a 10,000 seeds limit per variety.
Collards Champion Seeds
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Brassica oleracea var. acephala
Champion is a traditional Collard producing large, smooth, tender blue-green leaves with a mild cabbage-like flavour. Vigorous, dependable and notably cold hardy, it continues producing leafy greens over a long harvest period and tolerates poorer soils better than many other brassicas.
Collards are an ancient form of non-heading cabbage and have been cultivated in Europe for more than 2,000 years. They later became deeply embedded in the food traditions of the American South, where slow-cooked collard greens remain an important part of regional cuisine.
The broad leaves are highly nutritious, providing vitamins A, C and K along with folate, calcium and other minerals. Young leaves can be shredded finely for salads and slaws, while mature leaves are excellent steamed, sautéed, braised or slow-cooked. They can also be used as sturdy edible wraps in place of cabbage leaves.
Champion prefers full sun and fertile, well-drained soil with a near-neutral pH, although it is more forgiving of poorer ground than many heading brassicas. Keep plants consistently watered for the most tender leaves. Mature plants tolerate frost well, and cool weather can improve the sweetness and flavour of the foliage.
Seed count: approximately 300 seeds/g
Approximately 120 seeds per packet
When to Plant (Australia)
Tropics: Autumn to winter
Subtropics: Late summer to winter
Mild climates: Late summer to autumn and spring
Cold climates: Spring to summer, or late summer for an autumn crop
Planting / Sowing
Sow directly or raise in trays approximately 5–10 mm deep. Keep consistently moist until established.
Transplant or thin seedlings to approximately 40–50 cm apart. Harvest individual outer leaves once plants are established, leaving the central growing point intact so plants continue producing.
For the sweetest and most tender greens, harvest young leaves regularly. Established plants can withstand cold conditions and light frost.
If saving seed, remember that Collards will cross-pollinate readily with other compatible Brassica oleracea crops, including cabbage, kale, broccoli, cauliflower and Brussels sprouts, so adequate isolation is required to maintain the variety true to type.
Maturity: approximately 60–75 days.
Due to quarantine restrictions, TAS has an 800g limit per each seed variety and WA has a 10,000 seeds limit per variety.
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