The time to start sending out the seed orders is upon me. Since this is a new home, I'm not planting a great deal until I go through a spring and see what comes up on its own. Mostly the dyers garden. Speaking of the Dyers garden, I have an extra copy of that particular book if anyone out there is interested, please let me know.
I have indigo (wild), and Japanese (Knotweed) indigo, coriopsis tinctura, BES, QAL, Sulfer Cosmos, and the pots of last year's Madder to go in this spring. No pictures yet. Mostly, I'm spinning wool right now so I have something to dye when the pots are ready. Going to do some orange and black for my daughter ( Princetons colors). Maybe a hat or a scarf. The little one wants a tyedyed effect with blue yellow and green. Milkweed and goldenrod are abundant in this area so the yellows aren't a problem.
I'll grow the indigo, and then overdye for the bright green that she wants.
Still trying for the wonderful BES olive, though I'm starting to think it isn't in the cards for me. I know we have some rhubarb around here somewhere. I'll let a couple go to seed. The dried seeds yield a particularly lovely dark bronze color. Greens from the leaves, berries and bark of the buckthorn (grows like a weed here) which will be a new dyepot for me. I'm very short on yellow and peach for the spinning, so I have to do some jewelweed and coreiopsis tinc. for the peaches.
I'm planting last years Hopi Black Sunflower Seeds, and I'll have to buy the red dye amaranth color. The fresh sunflowers + copper give a lovely lasting dark purple color. I didn't know I needed fresh and dried mine so I ended up with a muddy brownish purple that was a waste of time. I didn't even dye wool with it.
Thats about it for now. Live well and dye happy.
Leah
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