Vegetable / Cool season
Georgia Southern Collards
Long-window leafy brassica for spring, fall, and mild winter harvests.
Broad, mild greens that sweeten after cool weather.
Seed spacing and maturity
- Days to maturity
- 65
- Germination temperature
- 55-85F
- Seed depth
- 0.5 inches
- Spacing
- 18 inches
- Row spacing
- 30 inches
- Start method
- Either
Frost-date timing
- Indoor start
- 5 weeks before last frost
- Direct sow
- 28 days before last frost
- Transplant
- 14 days before last frost
- Fall planting
- 10 weeks before first frost
- Succession interval
- repeat every 28 days
Action plan
- Can I plant this now?
- Use your local last-frost, first-frost, and soil-temperature checks before treating this crop as plantable today.
- Start indoors or direct sow?
- Direct sow or transplant depending on your soil warmth, bed readiness, and frost-risk plan.
- How much space?
- 18 inches in-row spacing, 30 inches between rows, and 0.5 inch seed depth.
- Best companions?
- Use crop-family rotation first, then pair with compatible timing, spacing, and canopy size rather than relying on a simple companion chart.
- Common failure modes?
- Watch for cabbage worms and aphids before leaf damage spreads. Even water keeps leaves tender. Fertile soil with steady nitrogen.
Is it still worth sowing this year?
Every region this site covers (Texas, North Florida, Central Maryland, New York City and York County, PA) publishes a collards planting window, so the answer for this variety is already dated. No other region is covered yet.
- What Texas gardeners can still sow, Georgia Southern Collards included AgriLife lists collards for Texas (AgriLife Region III); the page measures that window against this variety's 65 days to maturity and the region's first frost date.
- North Florida sow-by date for Georgia Southern Collards UF/IFAS lists collards for North Florida; the page measures that window against this variety's 65 days to maturity and the region's first frost date.
- What Central Maryland gardeners can still sow, Georgia Southern Collards included UMD Extension lists collards for Central Maryland; the page measures that window against this variety's 65 days to maturity and the region's first frost date.
- New York City sow-by date for Georgia Southern Collards Cornell CCE lists collards for the New York City area; the page measures that window against this variety's 65 days to maturity and the region's first frost date.
- What York County, PA gardeners can still sow, Georgia Southern Collards included Penn State Extension lists collards for York County, Pennsylvania; the page measures that window against this variety's 65 days to maturity and the region's first frost date.
Growing profile
- Sun
- Full sun to part shade
- Water
- Even water keeps leaves tender.
- Soil
- Fertile soil with steady nitrogen.
- Watch
- Watch for cabbage worms and aphids before leaf damage spreads.
- greens
- brassica
- fall
- heat-tolerant
Browse context
- Vegetable Catalog Category collection
- Mustard Family Rotation and family context
- Cool Season Seeds Season collection
- Either Seeds Start-method collection
- Container-Friendly Seeds Practical trait collection
- Beginner-Friendly Seeds Practical trait collection
- Succession Sowing Seeds Practical trait collection
- Fall-Planting Seeds Practical trait collection
- Part-Shade-Tolerant Seeds Practical trait collection
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