We make videos about all things tree collards as well as other edible and medicinal perennials. Our goal is to inspire and teach people to grow their own food and to do so in connection with the land and local communities.
I just got two jolly green tree collards from you. They are already growing quickly. I am so excited to harvest when they are large enough!! Thank you so much for what you do!!
I’ve played with shade cloth for several seasons… You are 100% correct about the height!! Head high doesn’t help at all, just holds in the heat… You have to get it on up! 8’-10’ is much better! Air flow is everything…
Hot and dry.. Challenging…Try 100+ with 75%+ Humidity… It’s a nightmare! Heat killing the blooms and Humidity is growing every virus known to maters! 😢
Hi Sequoia! Its Leecie from the Nursery ! Imagine my surprise when I googled propagating tree collards from cuttings and there you were! Beautiful collard plants behind you!
Would be cool (if you havent already) to make a video showing and teaching how you come up with your varieties and stabalize them and keep reproducing. Is it as simple as picking one grown from seed that you really like then just reproducing by cutting or is there a more intense multi year seed saving approach to develope it?? Anyways a video would be cool just to show your process and maybe speak about some of the varieties and what you did. Thanks!
Great info and a cool change in content! It seems as your and my climates are very similar even though youre in California and im in texas. In Dallas we have been getting colder in the winters and hotter and drier in the summer with july and August being mostly in the 100's.
I would love you to start a video project where you seclude/cover with cages no pollinators can get in and you hand pollinate so you can have true to type purple tree collard seeds (and of course sell me some😅) Anyways thanks for the videos and information
Your midpoint reminder is awesome. The video before this you skipped and hopped into the scene then started talkjng normal immediately and it was hilarious! Keep up rhe midpoint reminders with all youre awesome and informative tree collard videos
Thanks for all you do! I just ordered the new purple magic tree collard you just released, they look so awesome. I have the purple tree collard i got from you at the end of last year and its struggling through my texas summer but its making it. Looking forward to seeing how well the purple magic makes it through our summers since it has heat tolerance. Thanks for everything!
Btw before growing Inread that apparently they actually do well in tougher soil because they can stand upright (in super loamy soil you have to support them
So cool. I'm growing these in Nottingham Uk and they are growing really nice despite the terrible rain. We cooked a collard greens recipe with bacon and dod a slow cooked bbq brisket. The next day we made a pizza with the collard recipe and brisket with green chili and fresh oregano it's the best pizza I ever had
low perennial herbs are great around them. Examples are chives, Egyptian Walking Onions, oregano, thyme, sage, dwarf lavender, yarrow, and also annuals like calendula
Soooo Maybe I should keep tomatoe plants inside until the 1st of september, we still have 2-3 growing months.This is horrible. 2nd year of failure, my plants look great but no blooms. I was about ready to give up until I watched this.
its typically 100-112 degrees here in summer and I am able to get lots of good ripe tomatoes largely due to the shade cloth (and mulching and drip irrigation, etc) I don't keep them inside until September!
Haven’t watched yet so forgive if you already answered it, but would these do well in hot, humid, rainy environments like the coastal flood plains of SC? If they can’t handle the wet I doubt they’ll like my yard…
they do fine in SC but they don't like frequent flooding or standing water. For that you would want to plant in a raised bed or very large pot or grow bag
@@projecttreecollard thank you. I’m in SF and have been loving growing my Tree Collards in a community garden. Excited to to attempt to propagate for my newly constructed home garden.
Thank you for the info. I've just ordered purple tree collard cuttings from Etsy and wish now I'd bought the seeds instead. Either way, I'm excited to add this to my perrinal garden and I'll order the green seeds from your site. Thanks again for the info 💜 happy growing 💜
I find that baking soda and regular flower sprinkled on my plants gets rid of the bad bugs, snails ect ( here in NW GA.) all natural and no chemicals 💜
We'll survive this period of heat. JUST LIKE THEY DID DURING THE DUST BOWL IN THE 1930s and 1940s. Temps flutuate all the time. God didn't make a perfert universe. LOL!
My tree collars plants are over fourteen years old lately I have been having a lot disease issues such as black rot, and Alternaria leaf spot which keeps coming back. This video inform me that it's time to start over. Thank You
I notice you're cutting the stalks above the lowest leaves. Mine are about three or four feet tall, with NO leaves on the lower stalk. Can I still safely cut the tops off leaving a leafless stalk, or will the plant struggle with no leaves to sustain it. If I can't cut below the lowest leaf, what else can I do to rescue a leggy, spindly tree collard?
yes you can go drastic but it is more risky, especially if it is suddenly very hot or very cold. I prefer to cut in stages. Cut the top, leaving a leaf or two, and then come back in a month or two later and cut more
@@projecttreecollard Thank you! I am in a mild climate (San Francisco) but the collards are in a partly shady patio in a container -- two feet deep, four feet long, one foot wide. Have I set them up to fail? I've been saddened to see how they're struggling. I think I had also previously been over-watering them and I've now changed that. Can I also compensate with more frequent fish fertilizer (I rarely fertilize, only every few months) or does the partial shade just spell doom? I don't think the issue is container size, as I've seen videos of much more vigorous tree collards in much smaller pots.
@@hexproneplayspoorly1580 if it is a foggy area they want full sun but where I live I need to plant in 1/2 shade because its so hot. Yes, fertilizer is good in pots!
It is supposed to be up to 104 this week and my tomatoes are in pots I haven’t even got them into the ground yet . I’m hoping to put them under my covered porch fir a few days and water them I do not know what else to do 😢
the main issue with the heat isn't the plant itself (although a small pot makes them more vulnerable). The main issue with the heat is that they don't set fruit
Great videos, thanks! I have 2yr old tree collards and I’ve been fighting leaves turning yellow and light pink the whole time. Is this something you’ve seen?
Thanks for the tips. I am in north central Florida (9a) and was considering whether or not to plant my seedlings tree collards in partial shade. Many plants that are said to require full sun do not thrive or survive in Florida full sun, even in zone 9a. In a forest setting, I plant less sun tolerant perrenials in areas that receive partial shade during the summer, as with the onset of winter the surrounding trees lose their leaves and provide tolerable full sun to these plants during the less harsh sunlight of winter. My land is mostly a pine and oak forest, with a few clearings where trees died natural deaths (other than 2 small oaks to grow shiitake mushrooms) which receive full sun. There is a 1-3 inch mycorrhiza carpet. To plant potted nursery plants I cut away the mycorrhiza in a 6-12 inch circle, insert the potting soil, and mulch with wood chips to fertilize ("Back to Eden" style) and to encourage mycorrhiza to regrow where mycorrhiza was removed. I use a blend of soil high in organic matter in the planting hole to help prevent damage by root knot nematodes prevalent in the top 6 inches of Florida's sandy soil. This typically works very well in my growing conditions. Above ground pest pressure in Florida id difficult, but varieties of insects comes in waves at different times of the year. Vigilant insect removal, organic pest control deterrents, selecting plant varieties that aren't destroyed by pest pressure, and planting seedlings at times when pest pressure is less prevalent, are a few techniques that help negate pest pressure. Iimportantly, cutworms in my area prevent direct seeding and planting seedlings with stems less than 1/8 inch in diameter. These tips will hopefully help central Florida growers.
