North Carolina Yellow variety description
Staff favorite for taste in 2014. Broccoli type flavor, sweet, no bitterness. A delicious collard. Plants 11-20″ tall and 23-30″ wide. Plants tend to form a loose head later in the season. Stem color light green. Leaves yellow-green with a few blue-green with a white midvein. Leaves ovate with an entire margin and broadly rounded at the tip. Intermediate leaf bloom. Leaves 11-18″ long and 8-10″ wide. Leaves tend to curl upward. High uniformity among plants. Early season maturity, and not affected by black rot as adjacent collards were when grown in 2014 at Heritage Farm.
North Carolina Yellow variety history
Donated to Seed Savers Exchange in 2001 by Hal Bridges (GA BR H) of Georgia. He received this variety from a friend’s uncle in North Carolina where the collard was a local favorite.
Seed Status:
This variety has been successfully regenerated and is available on The Exchange. Click the button below to request this seed from the Seed Savers Exchange Collection.
I have tried a few. North Carolina yellow is the best by far. It took a couple years but I finally got a good seed crop last year. We have a nice patch for the winter.
Hey Frank – glad your saving the seed – I live in NC so am biased to all the NC varieties!!