Week 3. Weeded with a small putty knife that i sharpened on an old sharpening stone. I did kill some of the tiny flax plants i’m afraid. But the majority seem ok.
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#FiberFlaxProject #1qmlein week 2. These pictures are from yesterday, 14 days after sowing the flax seeds. I put a net over the tiny plants last week but will need to take it off again because now the weeding starts. Not many weeds yesterday but when I took a look this morning I saw that the weeds are coming up!

The flax took a week to germinate #FiberFlaxProject #1qmlein

All done #sowing #FiberFlaxProject #1qmlein

Dividing the flax seeds in 20 hopefully somewhat equal portions to sow 2 sq. meters
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Prepared the soil (2 sq meters) for the flax. I prepared another bed before but this one is in a sunnier spot. Very unlike me: I dug the soul 2 spades deep. As we say. I think it was necessary because there were a lot of weed roots deep down (field bindweed). Hope I got rid of it. Now my back aches but I’m happily stretched out on the sofa #oyeah
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Got the first e-mail today regarding the fiber flax project. The seeds are sent off and should arrive this week. It’s preparing the soil this month and sowing in April. I’ll keep you all posted under this hashtag: #FiberFlaxProject