Growing cotton

Whether you want to try your hand at an ancient craft or you're looking to make a little cash, growing cotton the way to go.

Guide to Growing Cotton

Professional cotton growers have aggressive measures in place to combat boll weevils. If a backyard grower allows the pests to get established, it could threaten the commercial cotton crop. Read on to learn more on why is it illegal to grow cotton in some states.

Cotton fiber has been used for hundreds of years in clothing, linens and other textiles. It is soft, versatile, and the raw fibers can be spun into strong threads and yarns that can rival animal fibers in warmth and durability.

In the United States cotton is deeply tied to its role in slavery and the atrocities committed against African slaves. Gardeners growing cotton today get an important piece of living history. Slaves were forced to cultivate acres of cotton and harvest the fiber from sharp bolls all day long in the hot sun. While no

Growing Cotton In Containers In The Midwest With Great Results

You can learn how to grow cotton in your garden and it's pretty simple to do. We grew cotton in the preschool garden to learn how clothing is made.

Learn how to grow cotton at home indoors or in your garden outdoors. Grow cotton from seed for gardening, science projects and farming.

You can learn how to grow cotton in your garden and it's pretty simple to do. We grew cotton in the preschool garden to learn how clothing is made.

The cotton plant makes an attractive addition to the landscape in areas where this use is allowed. It is a member of the mallow (Malvaceae) family, and it is related to okra plants, hollyhocks and hibiscus. In fact, its pretty flowers look quite a bit like hibiscus flowers. They start out white or yellow, turn deep pink and then wither and become cotton bolls. Read on to learn more on how to grow cotton commercially.

Cotton growing with kids is easy and most will find this to be a fun project in additional to an educational one. Learn more about how to grow cotton in the following article and give your kids a fun history lesson.

This thread is all about growing Cotton in Canada!. Can other Canadians grow cotton at home?

This year I am on a mission to encourage gardeners to grow textile fibers and take them all the way to clothes to wear. The last post was devoted to flax for linen and this one is about cotton. Not…

How to fight cotton bollworms in your garden.The adult form is a moth, which is easy to spot. To stop them from destroying your harvest, they must be controlled before adulthood.

Cotton hasn’t always been a domestic plant. This information is important to keep in mind when you are wondering how long it takes cotton to grow because the specific species of plant, combined with the environment in which it is grown combine to determine just how long it takes. In this article, we explore this topic. Read on to learn more on how long does it take for cotton to grow.

In 2020, I grew my first crop of flax up at the Cook County Community Garden in Grand Marais. Flax is the fiber used to make linen yarn. Flax is a bast fiber, which means that its fibers come from the inner bark of the plant. Other bast fibers include...

Home processing Cotton and Linen on a small scale (plant fibers forum at permies)

Never knew why I couldn't plant cotton in my garden. via @JPlovesCOTTON

Live cotton growing in Texas.

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