HERB - More - Woad questions and Thank You!

[Sheron Buchele/Curtis Rowland]

At 12:08 PM 4/29/99 -0500, you wrote:
>Woad does yield the best dye in its first year of growth.  Now if you
>collect this year's seeds and replant them, you should have a vast
>quantity of first year woad to collect next spring.
>Hertha


Okay, from all the wonderful resources mentioned - that woad page was very
cool! - I understand it is a biannual.  The first year is a rosette of
leaves and the second year is flower and seeds.

So, if the best dye is the first year - this means that I just pick the
leaves this year?  Does it still come back and flower and seed next year if
I do?  Are the leaves best in the spring or fall or should I just keep
picking them all summer?

Has anyone messed around with the flower dye?  It looks very yellow!

It is supposed to be a noxious weed in CO, but I haven't ever seen it here
in the foothills.  I kept looking for it, hoping to wildcraft it, but no
such luck.  

Thanks so much all who responded!  I know a whole lot more than I did!
What a great list this is!

Leonora

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