A few months ago we planted collard seeds in our vegepod. By July they were on their way. Last weekend we finally harvested them. They ended up being enormous.

We followed the cooking instructions from the cookbook we bought while travelling through North Carolina last year: Deep Run Roots (by Vivien Howard).

Perhaps surprisingly, the collards were delicious! (Maybe not so surprising really, we have had canned collards previously … something fresh from the garden is almost always going to taste better than its canned equivalent). It took about 2 hours to cook them which I suppose its fitting because it took us 4 months (at least) to grow them.

Here is our finished pot of collards: