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Flax vs Flax
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Posted: Sep/25/2008 7:25 PM PST
This year I started wondering about the flax seed I purchased from the health food store. I placed three seeds on a moist paper towel and they sprouted in just a few days! I asked around to see who knew what flax they would grow. No one really seemed to have an answer. I reasoned commercial flax of some sort would come up, but who knew what that is like??? A few days later, I went on a major flax planting project. Well, it was major in a small way. Two flats were planted side by side. Commercial flax seeds were sprinkled over one flat and sat on the patio right next to the wild blue flax. The commercial flax again sprouted in just a few days!!! The wild blue flax trailed way behind. In just a couple of weeks, I planted out the commercial flax. The commercial flax few well and I actually cut it back quite a bit. The wild blue flax has much prettier blue-green foliage and larger flowers. The commercial flax has a lot of very small blossoms that produce seed rather quickly. All in all, I prefer the wild blue flax. If there is a spot in the yard that just needs a little filler plant growing at the base, the commercial flax might work. Who knows if it is perennial or an annual though. Maybe next year I will get some of that golden flax seed to see what I get. Attachments:     |
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Posted: Sep/25/2008 7:31 PM PST
The first photo above is the commercial flax. You can see some of the little round seed heads it produced too. The second photo is a photo I uploaded by mistake of the wild blue flax blowing in the wind. The third photo is the wild blue flax plant I meant to upload. The last photo is the same as the first photo, but I obviously never figured out how to edit photos from a post. 
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Posted: Sep/26/2008 5:23 AM PST
They are both pretty  Gotta love experiments 
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Posted: Sep/27/2008 3:25 PM PST
I've got a jar big enough to probably grow a small field. I'll have to see if I can sprout some. That sounds interesting. |
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Posted: Sep/28/2008 6:00 PM PST
That is the beauty of it! I buy flax seeds by the pound at my healthfood store and pretty inexpensively too. Of course, I was hoping for something more like the wild flax in the little packets. |
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Posted: Sep/29/2008 5:48 AM PST
Very interesting. I could never get flax to grow for me, so I gave up on trying to have it. |
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