Sea of Flax

Tine found a bulk bin of flax seeds in the New College cafeteria last week. What does this mean for our garden? At first - nothing. We just soaked the seeds and attempted to make flax crackers. However, we found that those seemed to grow moldy very, very quickly. Instead we decided to stick the cracker in the garden to see what would happen after we saw Mr. Phils successfully germinate 100% of the seeds we had given him.

After a while we began to see some sprouts and decided to buy more from NCF. We planted these additional seeds next to the wheat in our new bed and...

Our Sea of Flax