Our cabbage seed has been blooming for awhile now. And it keeps getting more and more beautiful. 
Our crimson clover is also in full bloom. 
It’s not surprising that bees all around our fields are very happy buzzing around making honey for them and pollenizing for us farmers!
Irrigation has also started up this year.
Happy photo Friday!
The cabbage is the most exciting crop right now, not just because it’s new to our farm, but also because while the rest of our farm has been resting all winter the cabbage has been growing and thriving! So another photo Friday…and more cabbage!
It’s time to split the heads. Which basically means, well…what it sounds like. We use a tool to cut open the cabbage heads so that they will bolt (send up seed heads that we will harvest). Not all of them will bolt on their own, or at the same time unless we nudge them along.
So that’s what we are doing out there. While it’s a muddy job this time of year, it’s the only way to make sure the cabbage creates seeds for us to harvest this summer. And in other news…it’s coleslaw for lunch!
We have also had some sunshine here, crops will be starting to enjoy the warmer temperatures in the soil and spring to life soon. So out to the swings it is for our little farm boy!
Happy Friday folks!
The cabbage on our farm has been, well, not really growing. Which is fine, it is winter after all. But it has been sitting there very patiently, waiting for the sun and warmer weather to help it keep growing along.
This will be cabbage for seed. So the heads of cabbage will have to form, split open, and “bolt”. Or send shoots up above the crop that is there now. Those shoot or bolts will have seeds formed. That is the product that we will eventually harvest with our combines.
But until then, they are kind of pretty little suckers! Happy Friday!
NuttyGrass 