The Last Seeds!
Jan. 22nd, 2018 08:59 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
unicorndukeThe last seeds have arrived! Probably....
Uhh, most likely?
Well, with plans up in the air, I probably won't be buying any more seeds, unless I buy the true potato seeds but it's not looking likely this year.
I got my Adaptive Seeds order which was only three packets: Kassaby Sorghum, Sussex Flax and Purple Hulless Barley. They're a pretty cool company with some excellent seed varieties which they often grow out from seed exchanges they do with other countries' seed savers groups. It's pretty great.
My order from Johnnys also went up to my parents place, which was a colinear hoe, which you can use standing upright and comfortable and my clover seeds for the borders of the plots.
Yay stuff!
Uhh, most likely?
Well, with plans up in the air, I probably won't be buying any more seeds, unless I buy the true potato seeds but it's not looking likely this year.
I got my Adaptive Seeds order which was only three packets: Kassaby Sorghum, Sussex Flax and Purple Hulless Barley. They're a pretty cool company with some excellent seed varieties which they often grow out from seed exchanges they do with other countries' seed savers groups. It's pretty great.
My order from Johnnys also went up to my parents place, which was a colinear hoe, which you can use standing upright and comfortable and my clover seeds for the borders of the plots.
Yay stuff!
Flax
Date: 2018-01-23 11:20 pm (UTC)Flax is grown really densely because it forces it to grow up, so yeah similar to grain should work really well. I usually poke around commercial agriculture growing to see what planting rate they recommend and then halve it to account for differences in how the crop is managed. This site recommends 70 plants per square foot. https://www.ag.ndsu.edu/publications/crops/flax-production-in-north-dakota
Most of the home sites are pretty vague so I'd say maybe 30-40 seeds per square foot and see where it goes. You don't want branching in the plants because that produces shorter linen. And they branch more when they have more room. A seed packet would be a pretty small patch of flax, maybe ten or fifteen square feet. You should do it!