Planting Milkweed Part 3 - Ready To Transfer (Help The Monarch Butterfly)
Tips, Tricks
This is Part 3 of a four part series on one way to collect Common Milkweed seeds, germinate them, and plant them at home or in the wild. All of this is in an effort to help out the Monarch Butterfly populations, and give them the needed food for their caterpillars. Milkweed has significantly been reduced along their migration paths due to development and the use of herbicides. This is one species that you CAN help directly from doing some very easy, affordable things in your own back yard!
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Hi, where about in Michigan are you? your garden is beautiful!
My daughter is in Novi, Michigan and just for the sake of gardening I am holding back to move closer to my daughter. -
Could I dig up small milkweed plants and replant them in my yard?
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You did pronounce it right Mr. Lund! :-) Excellent job on ALL your videos!
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If you want to save on your plastic seed starters Mr. Lund, you can pop the whole plant up out of each starter and the whole root ball will come out. That way you will be able to save the starters and use them again next year. Just be sure that they are well-watered BEFORE you transplant them so the root ball will stay together. :-) Those starters can run into money.
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Question, I have a raised planter that I planted my orange tree in surrounded by concrete near a walkway. about 3 feet wide. Would that be ok to plant the milkweed? Or should I keep them in pots? I have a bigger spot up against my house but we have our house sprayed & I don't want any pesticides to get near the plants.
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It's not a weed it's a butterfly plant, that's what I think.
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CAN?? Got to Be KiDDing Me, It's a Must for Any Garden .. It'll enhance your other flowers production as well !!!!! xD
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YoU the MaN # God Speed, Live Long & Prosper
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WAAA, Milkweed is.. an Amazing Plant ~ Even if it is a Weed, You Want it to Grow, Attracts Butterflies & Other "Exotics "Bugs"
.. and did I mention , it attracts ME, "HaHa", Smells So Amazing, It will stop ya dead in your tracks and make you smell it's Lovely -
Boy I wish my Missouri soil looked like that. LOTs of red clay and rocks here:( We use a lot of raised beds.
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Oh yes you ARE a gardener!
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Thank you so much! Great series. I am currently enrolled in the MU Master Gardener online program.(Columbia Missouri) You might want to check it out. You would love it! I noticed your lovely flower garden behind you in the video series. I am also a flower growing maniac;) Here is the link for the MU course and also the link to their EXCELLENT gardening publications plus a few more I like. Enjoy! extension.missouri.edu/explore/ The American Nursery and Landscape Association online @anla.org Also: grownative.org and Missouri Botanical Garden @ mobot.org/
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I have watched your videos and I like the simplicity of your instructions (glad you are not a scientist whatever). A friend n Nevada raises the monarchs and has successfully tracked them to the south on their way to Mexico. Penny and I keep in touch and I am starting out this year. I am in California so I have the tropical Milkweed, but I am going to plant some of the pink variety as well. So I am hoping all goes well, I have the plant growing all over the place in my huge garden but will try to contain an area. thanks much Jennie
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oh, if they are tight, just pinch in from both sides just a little it will push the dirt in and should lift right out
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the tropical species, red and the yellow, will root from cuttings in just one month then in the ground, peat cups work well since you just plant then, put those plastic ones, if the roots are FULL, just push up from underneath with your thumb and they will pop out to reuse.
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So glad you made this series! I just planted mine today! Yule tidings!
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Hi Mr Lund, I wrote to you before, when my cat turned black. Well I had 1 more turn black but one day I came home and a butterfly was flying around. He came on my hand then flew away. Forgot to look for the sex ( darn) well I brought 11 cats into the house. It is so windy here it almost knocked me over and I was afraid for them. I hope I can return them to the plants in a few days. I will keep the container clean and with fresh leaves. I hope I have enough for them. My plants are pretty eaten up. Well thanks to your videos I feel confident I can take care of them. I feel bad they don't have as much room as outside. I'll be looking for any comments. Thanks, Pat
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next time you dont need to cut the plastic seed starters they're in. just flip them upside down holding onto them so they dont fall out and wiggle the soil so it comes lose
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Good videos, MrLundScience. Just a comment on your advice at 3:45 to plant milkweed near nectar plants so that butterflies that come to nectar will find the milkweed. Actually monarchs can detect milkweed up to a mile away. In fact putting the milkweed next to those plants makes it more likely that the caterpillars will be attacked by predator flies and wasps which are hanging around the nectar plants looking for targets to lay their eggs in. Perhaps better to plant the milkweed a slight distant from other nectar plants. The butterflies will find both just fine.
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what kind of milkweed you have in your videos...the thick big leaves one?
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