Flax growing in Ireland -where?

little bess

Hi,

Does anyone know where I would find flax growing in Ireland? I know nothing about its seasons, but I'd like to get photos of it in flower or being harvested if possible?

Cheers

Allyall

I'm not 100%, but someone was talking about this fairly recently, and I think there is flax growing between Malahide and Swords and Kinsealy.
Not sure if it's wild or farmed.

Also possibly growing up in Donegal. I'm sure I remember big blue fields when I was up there as a kid and being told it was flax.

micraX

Allyall wrote: »

I'm not 100%, but someone was talking about this fairly recently, and I think there is flax growing between Malahide and Swords and Kinsealy.
Not sure if it's wild or farmed.

Also possibly growing up in Donegal. I'm sure I remember big blue fields when I was up there as a kid and being told it was flax.

Yeah Foley`s grow flax, they are based in kinsealy but have a lot of ground out swords, kilbride and ashbourne way. They also grow linseed

ganmo

micraX wrote: »

Yeah Foley`s grow flax, they are based in kinsealy but have a lot of ground out swords, kilbride and ashbourne way. They also grow linseed

Isn't flax the same as linseed

who the fug

ganmo wrote: »

Isn't flax the same as linseed

So it is, learnt something new today

micraX

ganmo wrote: »

Isn't flax the same as linseed

Must be haha some people have told me flax and tgen I heard others saying linseed so I assumed it was different. Haha scarlet for me!

Allyall

micraX wrote: »

Must be haha some people have told me flax and tgen I heard others saying linseed so I assumed it was different. Haha scarlet for me!

When I was checking yesterday to see if there was any more information about Flax growing in Kinsealy etc.. That was a question that kept appearing in the results, so there seems to be a fair amount of people in the same boat.

Some cool pictures come up in the results too, old farms and farming etc..

micraX

Well they definitely had it in kilbride last year, a lad I know in fingal vintage society told me he was with them harvesting it

little bess

Thanks for the replies, gives me something to start with

monkeynuz

ganmo wrote: »

Isn't flax the same as linseed

Not quite, but yes at the same time.
Flax is taller and grown for the stem (fibres) and linseed is shorter and puts all energy into seed production for linseed oil.

So yes the same and different all at once.

letterkenny man

There's a corn and flax mill out letterkenny newmills it's called

Allyall

letterkenny man wrote: »

There's a corn and flax mill out letterkenny newmills it's called

I love those 360° Panoramic pictures.

http://www.letterkennyguide.com/newmills.asp