Linen Flax - Flax plant for spinning and weaving

Thanks Raven! Carol Hyland from Alderley Grange farm has daughter seed from the Organic Linore seed she got from Fibrevolution in Oregon last year. She is on Van. Is. And has seed available to sell find her here https://alderleygrange.com/collections/fibre-seed
... Carol will be in the flax network with us!

Oh yes!  I saw Carol's harvest last year.  It was splendid!  
I'm a big fan of the work she does.  

Here's a video with tips and tricks for weaving with linen.

Hello, I am starting my Flax linen journey finally. I am planning on buying a big bag of seed to sow once the snow melts it is currently January 20th 2024. I have 2 plots of 20x40ft I will be planting food grade flax to see if I really can get some fibers out of it to see if I really do need the all special certain type of flax seed to receive linen flax or not. I will be putting up nets up over the crops for maximum yield as well as close seed sowing. Finally I would like to mention I am in north eastern Ohio and the soil quality is very much of just clay so hope it doesn’t need much dirt in that regard, there will be manure filled in however haven’t decided what type of manure yet. I will be updating this log as I go and pray for some positive results.

Carl White wrote:Hello, I am starting my Flax linen journey finally. I am planning on buying a big bag of seed to sow once the snow melts it is currently January 20th 2024. I have 2 plots of 20x40ft I will be planting food grade flax to see if I really can get some fibers out of it to see if I really do need the all special certain type of flax seed to receive linen flax or not. I will be putting up nets up over the crops for maximum yield as well as close seed sowing. Finally I would like to mention I am in north eastern Ohio and the soil quality is very much of just clay so hope it doesn’t need much dirt in that regard, there will be manure filled in however haven’t decided what type of manure yet. I will be updating this log as I go and pray for some positive results.

Traditionally the date for sowing the flax seeds is 'the 100th day of the year'. That's the 10th of April. I did so. It germinated in a few days and started growing fairly quickly.
The tradition also says it's harvesting time after 100 days. But I waited longer. The seeds have to be ripe when you harvest. Then you have a double crop: both the (lin)seeds and the stems for fiber.
It doesn't require high quality soil. My soil is very sandy.