Looking for more late season greens to grow later this year.

[buffaloberry]

 Good morning folks. I'm looking to grow some cabbage, kale or greens in late summer or fall so I can have food throughout the winter. I wanna concentrate on some historic heirloom types, originally from the Mississippi and Louisiana Creoles and black settlers from the late 1700s and throughout the 1800s when they were in their plantation days. One of the types of greens I know of was the glazed greens which were an older type. Are there any more older types of greens still living today? I'm doing my very best to honor my parents ancestry in Mississippi and Louisiana from the Mississippi Delta region. You all know of any other crops, native to the Delta region to this day? If you all have, then please let me know. Have a good day.

[heavyhitterokra]

Buffaloberry,

When I was a kid growing up, we ate lots of Poke greens in the early part of the season, before the base of the stalks got nickel size in diameter. Poke used to be a lot more popular back then than it is nowadays (probably because of its poisonous nature if not prepared correctly). That stuff will make you very well able to poop straight through a chicken pen without ever hitting the chicken wire fence if you ever forget the draining and replacement of the first water while preparing it. That's why I never sell it at the Farmer's Market. However, we used to sell a lot of it to the poke cannery in Muskogee. We'd bring it there by the 16-foot horse trailer load.

Another green we ate a lot of back then was Lamb's Quarter. Lamb's Quarter is very mild and can be harvested and eaten way later in the season than Poke can. Plus, Poke is kind of hot tasting, like a radish is hot, but Lamb's quarter is very agreeable to the palate and digestive system.   I much prefer fresh Lamb's Quarter to any brand of canned spinach I've ever eaten.  Probably way more children would enjoy cleaning their plate at the dinner table if Lamb's Quarter was served instead of canned spinach.

We also ate a lot of turnip greens. Turnip greens are probably the easiest to grow of all the domestic greens. Grandma really enjoyed mustard greens, though I was never a fan of those. Then, there are collard greens. Those are easy to grow too, but not many people nowadays do it.

There are a lot of other wild greens, but those were our basics.