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Collard Greens
[edit]According to the Wikipedia Collard Greens page, "Spring Greens" is the name used in the U.K. Perhaps this article should just be merged with that one? --87.114.176.43 (talk) 15:17, 30 December 2018 (UTC)
- First thing that comes to my mind with "spring greens" is a variety of edible leafy plants, both wild and cultivated, that grow in early spring. I gather UK usage may refer more specifically to a particular Brassica vegetable, which I think is probably the same thing my (American) supermarket sells as "cabbage sprouts". I'm not sure if that vegetable is genetically collards, cabbage, or some other Brassica cultivar group. This is article is connected to a a Wikidata item that is about "Brassica oleracea var. ramosa"/"Thousand Head Kale"'. Based on Google image searches for those terms, I'm skeptical that the Wikidata item is the same thing as "spring greens"/"cabbage sprous". Plantdrew (talk) 03:49, 2 February 2019 (UTC)
Page is incorrectly named
[edit]This is a bizarre page. Throughout the world, different peoples have recognized the beginning of spring as a good opportunity to eat certain leafy vegetables. There are thousands of plants with "edible" leaves but most of these leaves are only edible when they are young. Spring is when most of this new growth happens. "Spring greens" generally refers to these young leaves eaten from a variety of unrelated species of plants.
Tr3ndyBEAR (talk) 18:07, 1 March 2021 (UTC)
The page is not incorrectly named. There is confusion over what Spring Greens are due to different cultural uses of the term. There is nothing wrong with having both meanings covered. The new page is totally incorrect when read by those from the UK... in the UK spring greens exclusively refer to collards.82.69.56.17 (talk) 09:28, 29 July 2021 (UTC)
- It is not a "cultivar" as the article states. It is simply what you call it when you pick the leaves early in their development. And the term "spring green" is not limited to cabbage. This entire article is confused and lacks sources Tr3ndyBEAR (talk) 02:51, 26 May 2025 (UTC)
Collapse into Collard"
[edit]Just a passing lover of greens,
I think "Spring Greens" in the UK sense seem to be the local variety of what Americans call collards. (which seems to be the older term). The collards' article [ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collard_(plant) ]contains many different geographical varieties and names, but elides the UK and northern Europe, which is covered here. .
If this is so then the articles should be combined, not least because it is interesting to know that they are basically the same thing.
Or am I wrong; are spring greens, in the British sense, an outlier from the others collards?
Spring greens are not a cultivar
[edit]It's just what you call it when you pick cabbage extremely early in the season. It's not a specific or defined cultivar. It's just cabbage picked a bit early. It's also a term only really used by some UK grocers.
"Spring green" is also a generalized term that refers to a very wide variety of leafy herbs you can pick in the early spring around the world. Saying "spring greens" is a cabbage variety is as silly as saying "leafy greens" is a cabbage variety. Tr3ndyBEAR (talk) 02:58, 26 May 2025 (UTC)