Thinking About Flax, Even When There Will Be No Flax

Even before this madness started, I had already decided that this year I would not grow flax.
Spring is intense and this year I wanted more time to finish writing and put out some of the handbooks that I have on stand-by due to lack of time (the one for Flax included).

Still, when this time of the year arrives, I can't help looking at the lunar calendar and watching the weather to choose the sowing day.
If we were going to have a Flax course this year, the chosen day would have to be the 4th of April!

The sowing of the flax is done as soon as the frosts end (earlier for those on the coast) and preferably on the crescent moon, a habit that I gained from those who taught me to cultivate and that I like to respect. This year the ideal would be between 1 and 7 April

Sometimes we have intense rain on the right moon, but interestingly enough, in the years since I started growing flax, even in the rainiest periods there is an opening to do the sowing.