I just planted some green cotton. It will be my first fiber crop. I am motivated to learn crochet and knitting. I guess I need a spinning wheel too. I could send you some of the green cotton when it's ready. Do you spin?
I just planted some green cotton. It will be my first fiber crop. I am motivated to learn crochet and knitting. I guess I need a spinning wheel too. I could send you some of the green cotton when it's ready. Do you spin?
Green cotton, I never heard of it. I will try to look it up. Knitting and corcheting are things I really enjoy. I find certain projects can be meditative. I don't spin but it is something that I want to get into. I have a friend that might be able to spin it.
what made you decide to plant green cotton? I wanted to plant cotton this year but we can only plant artic cotton because we are so far north. When I read up on artic cotton it didn't have much uses.
Well I decided on the green kind because when I was looking through the seed catalog, there was regular white, a brown kind, and " Erlene's Green" and though I wanted all 3, I could only afford one and the green was just too interesting and cool to pass up. I never even heard of arctic cotton. I guess you will just have to trade for that fiber if the arctic one isn't useful, huh? I live in Texas so I could grow nothing but cotton if I wanted to. I only have 10 plants this year but next year I will have a lot more seed from these plants and can grow a bunch. I'll see if I can send you a little bit after harvest just for kicks.
I would agree that green cotton would be too hard to pass up. It would be fabulous to be able to grow it here. However I don't think I have a long enough growing season for regular cotton. I may try to get the artic cotton for next year anyway. Maybe it has more uses than they say.