The Best Collards and Greens for Alberta
In Alberta, the safest bet is fast-maturing, compact varieties of collards and other cooking greens, not the slow, full-season types that Southern…
When to Plant Collards in Alaska
In Anchorage, the window for direct sowing or transplanting collards outside runs from May 12 through late summer, bounded by a last spring frost that…
Hedge Plants for California: What Holds, and What Only Looks Hardy
None of the twelve hedge species documented on this site survive across all of California.
When to Pull Carrots in Hawaii, and How to Keep Them
Pull Hawaii carrots when the shoulders poke through the soil at about three-quarters of an inch across, somewhere between 65 and 100 days after seeding…
The Best Collards and Greens for Alaska
Alaska gardeners get roughly 143 frost-free days to grow collards, and that number decides almost everything about variety choice.
When to Plant Collards in Alabama
Alabama gardeners get two windows for collards: a spring one bound by the last frost, and a fall one bound by the first.
The Best Collards and Greens for Alabama
Alabama’s long, mild season favors heat-tolerant, slow-bolt collard varieties like Georgia Southern and Vates for spring planting, and fast-maturing…
Growing Collards in Yukon
Collards in Yukon are strictly a short-season, frost-to-frost crop: sow outdoors only after the average last spring frost near June 5, expect a working…
Growing Collards in Wyoming
Collards can be grown successfully in Wyoming, but the state’s elevation changes the rules: soil warms up later than a calendar date suggests, the…
Growing Collards in Wisconsin
Collards go into Wisconsin soil once the ground itself is warm enough to wake the seed, not simply once the frost calendar looks friendly.