It was a beautiful morning for our walk today

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This field forms part of our regular dog-walk, which takes about an hour to do. We walk all the way up the edge of the field (to the left of the photo) and then walk back down an adjoining field that is much narrower. During January and February this year we had heavy rain on a number of days, which made it impossible for the farmer to do any work on it. Last year he grew wheat across the whole field, and in earlier years he has had a crop of oil-seed rape. However, this year he has only ploughed half the field - the half nearer the camera - and we assumed that he was going to grow potatoes, given that it has been ridged as you can see. So what is the green tinge you can see? These are not potatoes coming up, but a brassica crop. We can't think of any brassica that needs ridges, so it's a bit of a puzzle. It is also strange that the growth is only across part of the ploughed field. No doubt things will become clearer as the weeks pass by!