Can I eat cabbage going to seed?

[CubanBenny]

I have cabbage in my garden which I planted last spring. I have all ready to some degree eaten the heads. However now they are developing fresh no leaves and going to seed.

Is there any more eating in these do you think (perhaps the leaves or flowers?) or should I pull them out?

See picture

[nickdub]

Yes you can eat them - the flower spikes make a good addition to salads and are quite sweet but of course will get tougher the longer they are left (much like me) - if you have space to let a plant or two flower the bees will enjoy the nectar, and they are very easy seed to save coming wrapped in their own little pods like radish seed. (some varieties of radish are grown mainly so that the seed pods can be eaten green, popular with a cold beer in Germany apparently.)

[CubanBenny]

Yes you can eat them - the flower spikes make a good addition to salads and they are very easy seed to save)

Great, i'll add them to salad - see what the girlfriend says :-)

Yes, I think i'll leave them to seed - they're a nice heritage variety - January King

[BroadRipple]

Absolutely - like kale, you can keep cutting/breaking off the shoots and more will grow. Easy way to perennialise. I read somewhere about cutting an X shape in a cut cabbage stem and more sprouts will appear too, and it does work. Also, they're delicious.

[CubanBenny]

Regarding putting the flower spikes in a salad. What part of the plant do you mean? This is what the plant looks like now

[ameno]

Regarding putting the flower spikes in a salad. What part of the plant do you mean? This is what the plant looks like now[ATTACH]91345[/ATTACH]

You can probably use that whole top section, down to just below the bottom-most flower, but judge for yourself by checking how tender or tough the stem is. If the stem snaps off cleanly and easily, it is tender enough to eat. If it puts up any resistance, that section is too tough, and you'll need to check further up.
Just use it like sprouting broccoli, basically.