My spring garden is wonderful. I have onions, collards, spinach, snow peas, turnips, and beets. The collards, spinach and onions are ready to harvest. Can you cut them and allow them to come back like lettuce or do you need to pull them? Can I freeze collards? If so, do I just parboil them and then put in freezer bags?
Yes ,your greens can be picked like lettuce I know spinach turnips and collards you can and they will grow new leaves. I have never froze collards but my mom always just cooked them and put put them in the little freezer boxes.I think you could just pare boil them and freeze them .I'm not sure how they will do.
When the onions are ready to harvest you pull them up but since onion sets are still available in garden centers here in north Texas you should be able to replant for harvesting later in the summer.
Harvesting collards I'm growing collards for the first time. We've been harvesting for about two weeks. I take an old pair of scissors and snip off what I want. Three days later there's plenty more. I had no idea how prolific these plants are. My husband and I haven't had collards since we left Virginia about 40 years ago. We live in the Arizona desert now. Our collards are as delicious as we remember from our youth. I tried freezing some. Haven't tried eating the frozen ones yet. I blanched them in them in the microwave. I rinsed off the leaves, shook them off but didn't dry them. I put a thick stack on a plate and sealed it with saran wrap. Nuked about one and a half minutes. When they were cool, I removed any tough stems and veins. I stacked them in a gallon freezer bag and put them in the freezer. A taste test will tell if this is a good blanching method. I like it for spinach.
