Claim · model-written summary
Direct seeding or transplanting followed by cut harvest is optimal for early-season collards.
- Taxon
- COLLARDS
Brassica oleracea var. viridist0 - Outcome
- a combination of direct seeding and transplanting for establishment and harvest using the cut harvest method (whole plant, single harvest) is optimal in early seasone0
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Title
A SYSTEMS APPROACH TO PRODUCTION AND MARKETING FRESH-MARKET COLLARDS IN THE MIDSOUTH
Tina Gray Teaque; Paul W. Teaque HortScience 1993. doi:10.21273/hortsci.28.5.555g
Other claims from this paper (6)
- Recommendation Direct seeding followed by shucking is appropriate later in the collard season.
- Observation Cut harvest has higher efficiency than shucking for collards.
- Observation Cut harvest has lower cost than shucking for collards.
- Observation Shucked collards have higher yields than cut-harvested collards.
- Observation Buyers prefer shucked collards.
- Recommendation The authors recommend hydrocooling collards and packing them with crushed ice.