NORTHMOST SEEDWOOL, Growing Cotton in the North. *Anglish*

EPISODE SIXTY FIVE
NORTHMOST SEEDWOOL
Growing Cotton in the North
In this episode I discuss my experiences growing Cotton, Gossypium hirsutum , in my cold USDA zone 6b Pennsylvania garden.
As an intellectual exercise I decided to use Anglish for all the text in this video. It was fun but challenging to make this one. If you aren’t familiar Anglish is a movement towards English linguistic purism, it basically is the attempt to only use words with a broadly Germanic etymological origin. There is an active movement of language enthusiasts online who enjoy these sorts of things. Hopefully the casual viewing audience won’t be too irritated with me for this !
Regarding Cotton- In my climate, it’s impossible to harvest any significant quantities of cotton fiber if you grow the plants in the open garden. It is generally possible to harvest a few mature pods with ripe seeds each year IF you start by planting out large started plants into the garden. I’ve typically used 4.5” pots and planted seedlings about 8-10” tall. All of my seed was sourced from Sandhill Preservation, but Southern Exposure Seed Exchange is also a great source of cotton seeds for planting.
www.sandhillpr...
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Growing Cotton is very worthwhile as an educational experience. It’s interesting to learn how hard to pick and how hard to separate the seeds from the fibers can be. There is enormous historical value in these old colored fiber cotton strains, not all pleasant, but it’s a part of history and should be preserved. Cotton makes an pleasing ornamental as it’s in the Hibiscus family, Malvaceae.
It bears the typical showy Hibiscus flowers, and the pods can be useful in dried arrangements, wreaths, or other crafts.
If you want to learn more about growing Cotton, check out this guide from Southern Exposure Seed Exchange.
www.southernex...
If you want to learn more about Anglish, check out the following links-
Langfocus RUclips-
• Anglish - What if Engl...
The Anglish Moot-
anglish.fandom...
r/anglish subreddit-
/ anglish
This video was originally recorded October 17, 2017.
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