(1) Eat a diet rich in fruits and vegetables, especially green leafy vegetables like collards , kale, spinach, and broccoli.

(2) Start cool-season veggies like cabbage, collards , carrots and cauliflower in July for a fantastic fall harvest.

(3) In many regions it is an agricultural pest on domesticated varieties of Brassica oleracea, including cabbage, broccoli and collards .

(4) Longer, gentler cooking brings out a low, earthy sweetness in chard, collards , or kale, an uncanny flavor that plays well with other things grown close to the ground.

(5) Broccoli, cauliflower, Brussels sprouts, radishes, carrots, collards , garlic, kale, lettuce, mustard, swiss chard, spinach and turnips are all ‘frost tolerant’ crops.