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Growing your 1m of Flax
Got your flax seed and ready to join in with us growing flax for linen? Plant your seed in late March/April into well drained and raked soil. It can … Growing your 1m of Flax
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Pulling, drying, retting the flax
Time has passed and the flax is in the Global Gardens greenhouse for the winter. We pulled it late – as it was planted late. As Simon from Flaxlands had told me, it didn’t go so yellow and continued to flower, as the light hours lessened to early summer length due to the late planting.…
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Flax to Linen in action
We’ve had two lovely things happen this month… well there’s been lots of loveliness, but these are to share. Llieinwe Exhibition at Waterloo Tea shop, Whitchurch road Until June 5th We were offered the space in this lovely little local tea shop (also good coffee, lovely food and nice people). We have tried to show…
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Our first spun yarn from Global Gardens Flax
As we prepare the ground for this year’s flax season, we’re also getting back to processing last year’s retted and dried crop. JOIN IN: Wednesday 13th March we’ll start preparing land at St Fagan’s museum, between 2-4pm. Meeting at the main entrance or at the field… bring a drink and gloves 😊 Good preparation makes…
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Pulling the flax at St Fagan’s – part 1
We’d calculated Wednesday 23rd August as around 95 days after sowing and so we headed there nervously. The weather has been extreme. Totally dry for three weeks after planting. Then a super wet July. We had planted further apart than the two years before – due to weather, time and human resources. So i was…
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flax update
The flax at Global Gardens is looking good. It’s not so tall, but the flowers have come and gone, so we’ve about 4 weeks til harvest. We aim to visit St Fagan’s this week to see how that’s doing. Thanks to the grant we have secured from the Ashley Family Foundation, we’ll be facilitating workshops…
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making n mending club at global gardens
The summer season of making n mending gatherings at Global Gardens project allotment has started again, thanks to funding from the Ashley Family Foundation grant. We’ve started making a dye reference resource, dyeing scraps with garden plants and dye powders, to be kept in the classroom. Here’s what else is planned: 21st june making a…
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Growing flax
After three weeks with no rain, i wasn’t expecting much… but the flax is up and looking okay! Thankfully there has been help with weeding and watering from St Fagan’s volunteers. We’re planning a flax pull session is Wednesday 23rd August – Around 98 days after sowing. We collected some of the beautiful woad seeds…
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flax seeding
We’re planting… better late than never! After such a wet April, the field at St Fagan’s wasn’t ploughed until two weeks ago. So we gathered troops and have done two seed sowing sessions so far. This year we’re planting 200m sq – about double last year. We have three different seed lots: 1. 9m planted…