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How To Grow Tree Collards From Cuttings

          Written by Peter Otieno               Tree Collard is a vegetable from the Brussica family which includes other vegetables like broccoli, cabbage,cauliflower and lettuce. It a green vegetable grown for its edible, tasty, tender leaves. It rarely grows to seeds nor produce flowers  but if it does there are normally small in number.  In this blog we discuss how to grow perennial tree collards from cuttings and show you the health benefits of eating them. First, let's understand the term perennial crop. A perennial crop is one that is planted once till its maturity then you harvest and continue to do the same all year round (its shelf life is not limited to two years or three months). Perennial Tree Collards are not grown from seeds but rather from their cuttings. They do not need to be replanted every season or year and after harvest their leaves grow back automatically. In Kenya,we call it 'sukuma wiki' meaning 'push the week' .It can be eaten all week as i