unicornduke | (Reply)

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Ah, I see. Neato!
I'd be happy to buy the seed, or like, work out a trade, or whatever. We still haven't made the flax tools; I'm going to go see the ones in the museum at some point a little later in the spring. I guess we'll need them before autumn if we want to process your last year's crop.

(I've been pondering that I might try retting them in an abandoned 100-gal stock tank that's out by the yurt-- if I haul it off a little distance so the smell isn't oppressive, there's nobody else out that way who'd be bothered and I can just haul stream water up to refill it, and check on it daily. I can probably borrow a pump for the initial fill, even, if I wanted to be lazy, there's a little one on the chore truck that's movable.)

You're good at field variety trials, LOL. I have the problem that I think I've written enough down and I'll remember what I planted where, and then I'm like, what the fuck is this thing and why is it here? I'm not super organized.
But if I get Aaron involved, as I'll probably have to so as not to interfere with any of his plans, then I bet he'll show me how to take good notes. He has these exquisite little binders full of his notes now, going back all the years he's been there.

So you could stick all six varieties together and still save the seed and have it be the same variety it started? Cool!

Well, I got my little dime baggie of seed, too, and no idea what kind it is. I guess I'll just plant it along the edge of the patch and see if it's different. Unless you want any, but I can't see as it'd be worth it since I don't know what kind it is!