@EllenInEdmonton For future reference: green pak choi (often labelled Shanghai style pak/bok choy around here) is pretty darn close to collard greens. Kale can also work. Or the outer leaves of darker green head cabbage (which you usually only see in summer). They're all variants of the same cabbage species, you just need a version with leaves tough enough to hold up to cooking.

RE: https://mstdn.ca/@yegwxnerdery/115798259095059426

It is certainly the snowiest December in my yard since I moved here 14 years ago. A few March snow dumps might have been came close to the current depth (I haven't tried to get a measuring stick through it, but 50cm sounds about right). Tomorrow's above-freezing forecast (with chance of showers) will compress the powder a bit, but then temperatures are expected to drop again with more snow to start the new year.

ALT for quoted post: Screenshots of two of Chris' Tableau visualizations. The first shows this year's daily snowdepth readings for 5 regional weather stations as coloured lines overlaid on shaded areas representing the historical min/quartiles/max. At the start of December we had very little snow, but now most readings are well beyond the historical max for the day & close to all time max accumulation. The second viz has the snowdepth graphs separated into a chart with each station in a column and each year (since fall 2010) in a row.

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