How to Plant Common Milkweed
Tips, Tricks
This is a video explaining the planting of Common Milkweed, one of the main food sources for Monarch Butterfly Caterpillars. Order Milkweed Plugs at: http://monarchwatch.org/milkweed/market/ Menesetung Bridge Association Website: http://www.menesetungbridgeassociation.org/ Information on Monarch Butterflies: http://monarchwatch.org/
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I just collect the seeds in the fall and choose a site and expose the dirt with a metal leaf rake and scatter the seeds in the dirt. I create shallow channels in the dirt and put the seeds in those channels. The rain will cover them with dirt and they will cold stratify naturally.
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Thank you so much for the information. I just received some seeds and didn't know how to successfully have them grow into plants. I'll put them in the fridge until spring comes.
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great video thanks for the info
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Enjoyed your video on how to start and grow Common Milkweed. I do cold-moist stratification starting sometime in February for about 6 to 8 weeks and put them in LIGHTLY-moist paper towels. After that, I plant them in seed flats in "cowpots"-
-pots made out of dried cow manure that I buy from a company and put the whole flat on a seedling heat mat with a plastic dome cover over the whole flat. That keeps the humidity and moisture in and the seedling heat mat provides warmth to the growing medium (I use seed starting mix) and I've seen germination start in about 4 days. Bottom heat speeds up and increases germination rates. :) -
Great video! Tip soak seeds for a few hours before planting milkweed, northern types can be tricky to germinate. Roughing up with sand in the damp bag in fridge works too. The link for seed vendors may need to be fixed?
If anyone needs free milkweed seeds visit www.livemonarch.com
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The aphids always take over eventually, though not until late in the summer where I am in Southern Ontario. I didn't see any show up on my plants until the end of August this year. By that point in the year the plants have put more than enough energy into the root system to survive the winter, so if a plant gets colonized it's perfectly reasonable to cut it down, unless you want to harvest its seed pods.
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How is your milkweed so aphid free? Is there a secret way of getting aphids off? Or are their not too many milkweed aphids where you are?
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