If you remember this spring I will be trying my hand at growing a fiber garden. I got some colored cotton for a lady that follows my blog and plurk. It is great but I am worried because I have never grown anything for fiber before and I don't want to mess up the seeds that came with the pods of cotton. So I took some time to order some regular white cotton and some Flax seeds from Bountiful Gardens.
I am sure there isn't anything weird about that but what is different is that when my seeds arrived I found a few extra things in the package to help me out. You see my order came with a whole sheet on growing my own organic cotton. It covers everything from Soil prep, depth of planting the seeds, and even how to harvest my crop. Did you know that the average person can pick 200-250 pounds of cotton in a good day?? Did you know that one bale of cotton can make 21,960 women's hankies?
They included Planting and processing instructions for the Flax too but I haven't had time to read it all. I did skim it and did you know that if you plant oilseed varieties they will produce poor fibers. It covers everything bugs, irrigation, Haresting, retting, rippling, breaking Hackling, Scutching and spinning.
I have to admit I don't know what all those things are but I bet I will when I get everything read ... LOL
I am sure there isn't anything weird about that but what is different is that when my seeds arrived I found a few extra things in the package to help me out. You see my order came with a whole sheet on growing my own organic cotton. It covers everything from Soil prep, depth of planting the seeds, and even how to harvest my crop. Did you know that the average person can pick 200-250 pounds of cotton in a good day?? Did you know that one bale of cotton can make 21,960 women's hankies?
They included Planting and processing instructions for the Flax too but I haven't had time to read it all. I did skim it and did you know that if you plant oilseed varieties they will produce poor fibers. It covers everything bugs, irrigation, Haresting, retting, rippling, breaking Hackling, Scutching and spinning.
I have to admit I don't know what all those things are but I bet I will when I get everything read ... LOL
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