There's a lot going on around the farm through the winter season.

With fall harvest complete and grain in the silos, you might not realize that there are still things growing in many farmers' fields.

Margaret Gladden, a farmer in Hendricks County, showed WRTV a field of cover crop oats and radishes. The field was planted shortly after harvest.

"The cover crops help to break up the soil," Gladden explained. "And add nutrients back into our crops, to help get them ready for next year's crop."

The green plants keep growing as winter gets started.

"Once we get a good hard, hard freeze, then these will die out," Gladden continued. "In that time, it's adding all those nutrients that we need and want for our soil."

The oats and radishes will not be harvested, but they will stay in the field

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