Kale

Tomjim

At what stage (time of year) will Kale go to seed

visatorro

paddys day or thereabouts??

7740man

According to Teagasc you should set it in mid June

blue5000

visatorro wrote: »

paddys day or thereabouts??

Might be a bit later this year, when was it sown? If it was sown early June, it would probably flower earlier.

Farmer Pudsey

At any stage from now on it is ground temperature dependent I think. I grew it 6-7 tears ago for a few years. If not a lot of it you can cut flowers with a hedge clippers before you move fence and gather. It is a case of keeping the fence moving at present.

sh1tstirrer

If they are grazing it all winter the seed shouldn't do any harm to them at least that's what my vet told me when I had kale gone to seed many years ago.

Tomjim

thanks I'm in AEOS so had to grow it for bird cover

Te kale is only fenced off with 1 strand of electric wire and I let sheep into field at weekend - sheep I expect will eat the kale.

I sowed the kale last May 12 months, it regrew the second year. Will it die off now or will It grow for another year?

frazzledhome

My only comment on Kale is that its somewhere to put cattle out if the way. Used to grow 20 acres for weanlings and well conditioned dry cows when getting going. It took a lot if silage to supplement it. Middling value considering the land taken out.

I'd put cows into b&b or contract rearing before I'd go back, hateful stuff

Brown Podzol

frazzledhome wrote: »

My only comment on Kale is that its somewhere to put cattle out if the way. Used to grow 20 acres for weanlings and well conditioned dry cows when getting going. It took a lot if silage to supplement it. Middling value considering the land taken out.

I'd put cows into b&b or contract rearing before I'd go back, hateful stuff

Always felt you were stealing from next year. Would June the following year before you had grass back in the field. 12 months for dubious value.

sh1tstirrer

frazzledhome wrote: »

My only comment on Kale is that its somewhere to put cattle out if the way. Used to grow 20 acres for weanlings and well conditioned dry cows when getting going. It took a lot if silage to supplement it. Middling value considering the land taken out.

I'd put cows into b&b or contract rearing before I'd go back, hateful stuff

It's messy alright if the weather is wet and if you get a lot of frost it will wreck it. I wouldn't agree with you on the feed value though.

Robson99

Have a field for reseeding. It hasn't been reseeded in years. Was thinking of putting in a break crop for a year and reseeding it next spring. Will fatten some lambs on it over winter. Would ye go with kale, rape or Tyfon or would I he better putting in Italian R.G. for a couple of years and reseeding again. Thanks in advance

Robson99

Have a field for reseeding. It hasn't been reseeded in years. Was thinking of putting in a break crop for a year and reseeding it next spring. Will fatten some lambs on it over winter. Would ye go with kale, rape or Tyfon or would I he better putting in Italian R.G. for a couple of years and reseeding again. Thanks in advance

frazzledhome

Robson99 wrote: »

Have a field for reseeding. It hasn't been reseeded in years. Was thinking of putting in a break crop for a year and reseeding it next spring. Will fatten some lambs on it over winter. Would ye go with kale, rape or Tyfon or would I he better putting in Italian R.G. for a couple of years and reseeding again. Thanks in advance

Kale would be too tall for lambs. Cut silage and put in rape or tyfon. One thing go sure you'll get a great reseed after a break crop

Greengrass1

frazzledhome wrote: »

Kale would be too tall for lambs. Cut silage and put in rape or tyfon. One thing go sure you'll get a great reseed after a break crop

We did that last yr cut silage in august disced it up put in fodder rape.
Grass re grew up through it was great feeding in it
Sprayed it off then in Feb and reseeded in April.
Got 2 cutz of silage and a grazing off it

micraX

Kale has really taken off in the last fee years since it got this "super-food" status, and the juicing game has really pushed sales. There used to be 2 pr 3 small growers locally in North county dublin, now there's 3 big ones and a few small lads. Good few acres left to cut, harvest usually goes to mid march, so paddys day would be right.

milkprofit

Tomjim wrote: »

At what stage (time of year) will Kale go to seed

Can be poisonous when goes to seed

davidk1394

Robson99 wrote: »

Have a field for reseeding. It hasn't been reseeded in years. Was thinking of putting in a break crop for a year and reseeding it next spring. Will fatten some lambs on it over winter. Would ye go with kale, rape or Tyfon or would I he better putting in Italian R.G. for a couple of years and reseeding again. Thanks in advance

We grew kale the last few years for sheep as a break crop great stuff they're still grazing it now... don't see whats great about the tyfon we undersowed it with grass did a good job on the lambs but the field was destroyed with south thistles afterwards so 2014 was the final year growing it. Italian Rye grass is what we're going growing again... we used finish 300 lambs on 9 acres before, good stuff but you wouldn't want to be shy with fertiliser !

Tomjim

Does it take a lot of kale seed to poison cattle. Let cattle out today and theres a few kale plants not an awful lot. These cattle wereon kale before Christmas

Dakota Dan

blue5000 wrote: »

Might be a bit later this year, when was it sown? If it was sown early June, it would probably flower earlier.

I sowed it late July started going to seed early March, all grazed since mid March

Dakota Dan

Tomjim wrote: »

Does it take a lot of kale seed to poison cattle. Let cattle out today and theres a few kale plants not an awful lot. These cattle wereon kale before Christmas

Should be safe enough of grazed out soon, especially when they have been grazing it most of the winter.