BKrenning

Does he know what they do with the cotton in the fall?

Normacharlie

Try your local 4-h. In Tennessee you can't grow cotton for personal use because of boll weevils.

redmadder

Man o man, what I know about growing cotton. We were the last of the proud but dirt poor families. I planted the seeds, hoed the weeds, and picked sacks full of it by age 5.

Lack of rain can ruin the crop. Pesticide resistant bugs can destroy the plants in the field. It needs lots of fetilizer and a good season. The fields have to be rotated because cotton takes so much out of the soil. And picking scatches your hands, the suns burns you brown as walnuts and you gotta watch out for snakes.

I learned to keep my head down and keep picking. No matter how long the row was you got there with a sack to be weighed.

Nope, don't want to ever do that again.

gale

Well it's not as simple as just 'not growing' something. :wink:

bamamama

Planted in spring and harvested in the fall

whinnytoo

would like to try growing a cotton plant indoors.......... where can I get seeds?
as for the price of cotton quilting fabric? when was the last time you saw prices go down???????? even if the 'beginning product' price goes down, we never see a drop on our end......... thankfully i have a large stash.

Cosy

Funny: My in-laws are from Southern Arizona,and when the family was young they picked cotton. All my BIL's insist my MIL picked 200 lbs of cotton both the day before and after she gave birth to her 13th child!(usually just after the birth of our own children complaining about us not holding up our end of things).
But she confided to the girls that she spent 3 weeks in bed before, and 4 after due to complications. In the '40's when she was having her babies, women normally spent 2 weeks in the hospital after having babies.
And just as soon as I get the cows milked and the corn planted tomorrow morning, I will start planting my cotton. Yeah, right!

MissJMac

CHINA, of course LOL

Lavada

laugh all you want try picking the seeds out of cotton by hand not easy i know as we lived in arkansas when i was growing up as mom used it for batting in quilts was i ever glad to leave arkansa and move to iowa at age 19 never would i go back there life was hard for my parents but they were the greatest

jitkaau

Lots of info from our end of the world at the link below. Seems as though there will be a good crop in spite of the floods. I found it interesting reading.
http://www.cottonaustralia.com.au/