I Grew Flax In My Backyard and This Happened
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- Опубліковано 3 жов 2024
- I didn't expect growing flax in my back yard to be such a challenge! Between the weather, backyard wildlife, and my own inexperience there were probably a thousand ways this project could have gone better. My final crop was certainly not what I expected!
With all that said however, there are not really words to explain the feeling of holding my first handful of flax- planted, nurtured, and grown right in my own backyard. Saying it was a moment of deep connection to the earth and to my family history doesn't seem adequate. It was a beautiful moment and one I'm grateful I can share with you.
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I really enjoy watching your videos. Not only are you an amazing fiber artist, but your kindness and thoughtfulness always shine through. Thank you for sharing your work and beautiful self with everyone!!
❤ That was a very thoughtful inserted comment in your video about Helene.
I am glad you did post this video. Your comments about Storm Helene's damage were thoughtful and kind.
despite the tragedy lingering in the background... and all the struggles growing ... this was a lovely peaceful journey to follow this morning and helped bring my day up in a much-needed way.
hopefully next year's crop fairs better for a larger yield. i can't wait to continue to follow the journey of this fiber
Hi Evie! Thanks for scratching this intellectual itch…I was so curious to grow flax and well… I’m okay watching you do it for now 😂
Love this, and your sensitivity to others. It is always amazing to me to see how people historically found ways to use various plants in such interesting ways. Would I look at a random wild plant and think "I should figure out how to make that into fiber!"? Probably not. Necessity makes people innovative and interesting.
I know the master spinner thing was frustrating and sad, but your videos since have been so different from the ones before. They were always good, but now they have so much more depth and you seem to be taking more risks and they are amazing!
Thank you for scratching my itch. Absolutely get Rabbit Scram -all natural, great fertilizer, too. I spread it at the beginning on the month from April.
growing nettles specifically for fiber is wild to me as someone who lives in the UK, you can literally just walk for 5 minutes anywhere and find loads XD
Hi Evie, my husband and I've been growing flax. This is our 5th year. I enjoyed your video. I have learned a lot in our efforts. With a small plot , about 7feet square, there are things I do that you can't do with a field. It was good that you explained harvesting green to beginning yellow to brown seeds. I harvest when the lower 4-6 inches are yellow and leaves falling off. We dry them on tables in garage or outside. The seeds continue to develop so when dry we ripple an use seeds for next year. It is often hard to find them and I like to select for taller stems. What variety did you plant? I have been planting Nathalia, but I have some avian for next year. Oh, and we use metal folding fences to protect them from wind. Striving for less coarseness is ongoing. I'll be curious to learn how yours comes out. I envy your black soil. We are from IL but live in MD. In fact we are going to visit IL and Wis very soon.
Good day dear Evie! And Mark as well.
Flax in bloom is so beautiful! 🥰
Someday I'd love to grow my own flax ❤
You'e SO COOL, such an inspiration to a new generation of fiber artists and scholars!
love your flax experiment, hopefully you will have better luck next year with the nettles and P. S. you haven't done it wrong if you learn from it something that will make the next crop easier
If you weren't so far away from me here in Minnesota, I would say you should come to my farm place to collect nettles. It grows wild here and is considered a noxious weed by many around me. There is a large patch of it in our grove. It is known locally as Itch Weed. I have looked into harvesting nettles for spinning and yes, leaves are quite good cooked. It's not exactly spines but more like hairs on the leaves that make people itch. Once cooked, the hairs are gone. I am intrigued by the appearance of flax. The flowers are lovely. It would look lovely in a flower bed. May need to add it to my garden beds!
Love the video good luck in your Alex's growing. 😊😊😊❤❤❤❤
Ahh so fun!! My flax didn't really go to seed and I let mine go for a long time!! But I'm in Wyoming so short growing season 😢
I tried growing Japanese Indigo in pots. They did so well...until they didn't. Still not sure what happened to them. But there's always next year! 😃
Hi 👋 Evei! 😢 I tried to see if I could try this in Idaho, and it didn't grow that well. We must be to dry of climate. I wish you and your family a safe rest of this year.
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Get one of those motion sensor sprinklers. They learn quick
Thank you.
Oh, I LOVE this. I have a tiny packet of Baltic flax that didn’t get planted this year, but I’m thinking I’d like enough to do a couple of raised beds. Can you share where you bought your flax seed? Also, don’t apologize for worrying about hundred mile an hour winds and 90 tornadoes! That’s scary, Helene or no Helene. I think we women tend to downplay things in our lives because there are people suffering worse. If you look hard enough, you will always find someone who has it worse than you, or better than you, has more challenges than you, has more apparent blessings than you, and on and on. Life is not a zero sum game. You being scared or frustrated by enormous storms that affected you in a very personal way in no way takes anything away from people dealing with the aftermath of Helene. It’s okay to feel what you feel and express that. And if someone is rude enough to come in and say, “Well, someone else has it worse!” That’s what blocking is for. Negative people gonna negative. Those are the people who will line up and say, “I’m going to rate people who were affected by Helene. Tree fell across your driveway? Hah! Tree fell on this other guy’s car! Both of you get behind the guy who had a tree fall on his house. That woman had someone injured when her roof blew off! Flooding? How much were you able to salvage?”
Isn’t that ridiculous? If we as humans have the capacity for infinite love, then we surely can find the capacity for infinite empathy, right? No zero sum games!
Looking forward to the processing!
Loved your video Jullian Eve.💗
Are you going to show us please what you did to get the dry plants ready for spinning?
Thank you for scratching my itch. Not sure if I want to try
Thanks for sharing about CERF+ - going to look into them right now!
I’m also curious if you’ll be trying nettle again? Or if it’s not worth the bunny battle.
Am down in Danville IL where lots of vacant lots city owned and erratically mowed. Have wanted t plant whole lots in flax follow with winter squash or beans to keep ground covered.when exactly did you pull flax? I had envisioned using inverted tomato cage to dry bundles. I tried playing with some volunteer nettles, didn't work but discovered are very hard to eradicate.
I found out relatively recently that we have wild flax growing here in Utah, but I don't know where. I know where to get rabbit brush for dyeing (everywhere) as well as nettle (again, everywhere), but I have no idea where the flax is.
Nature really did conspire against you here!
Wonderful harvest. Good luck with your next step. I'm doing something similar, but with native milkweed. The number of butterflies in my yard has exploded this year. Monarchs are so beautiful, and watching the caterpillars grow and develop is fascinating. I wait until the plants have finished blooming and developed seed pods, but before the seeds are ripe, I trim the stalks down to 12 inches from the ground. The plants are perennial and will come back in the late spring next year. The processing is much the same as linen. You can also use dogbane, another native fiber plant. I'm a beginner at spinning and haven't gotten a good enough yarn for clothing yet.
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