Wednesday 6 November 2013

musing on indigo and iceflowers

i don't often share my private correspondence
but
because it's nearing the end of the indigo season
and
i know some people are wondering how to deal with the remains of their harvest
indigrowingblue  has good tips

but
here's another
that blossomed when
a kind student came in yesterday with a big bag of late-season leaves...


13 comments:

  1. Fantastic.........India, thank you for this............

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  2. great, great india , i have some seeds to indigo leaves for next year i want to try - happy to made experiment

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  3. Excellent application of knowledge........I will remember this. Thank you.

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  4. what a lovely generous bit of sharing

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  5. india, i will say it here: GENIUS! of course this worked. makes sense and you DID it. i am thrilled and incidentally more than thrilled by this. what a great idea for *some* experimentation. you rock, girl (er, too many teenagers, sorry.)

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  6. Cool I can't wait to try it!! Thanks India :)

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  7. Dang, just used the last indigo. Must try this next year! Thank you so much for sharing your brilliant idea!!

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  8. I am so on this!!!!!!thanks heaps

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  9. Now, that IS exciting! I wish I would have thought of it before drying a bunch, though they will go off to the northern CA composting project..

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  10. I don't suppose you can grow indigo in the UK. have some seeds for woad though, so probably it would be useful to try this with it, when I get it grown .... again, you are so generous, India ...

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  11. oh, I am wrong, japanese indigo is possible in the Uk and I have found a website which sells seeds, also for madder, dyer's camomile, coryopsis etc ... my garden will be busy next year!

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