Tuesday, April 1, 2025

Growing Notes: Cotton, Flax, Indigo

Today is Tuesday, April 1st and we are putting something in the ground!

For convenience, I'm going to keep the growing notes for all three plants in one blog post, but the flax goes in first.

The children have worked hard on their plant research for several days.

And many thanks to LR and SW -- the Geometry folks -- for measuring the diameter and calculating the area of our circular garden bed! We are reusing the area fenced off for our Three Sisters Garden last year.


Cotton

seeds harvested from whole plants brought in last year by Ms. Grace


Sep 25, 2024

Mar 24, 2025


Flax

seeds donated by Ms. Bridget

direct sown (dusted with flour first) on April 1

Bridget also sent us some lovely examples of her flax fiber from last year


Indigo

seeds purchased from Hudson Valley Seed Company on March 25

Japanese Indigo (Persicaria tinctoria)


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