I've had a hard time finding any but did come across some at a dove shoot this year and got 3 pods. Have y'all ever grown any? I'd like to have a supply there in the backyard.
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Project Milkweed | TDOT Pollinator Habitat Program
Project Milkweed is part of TDOT's Pollinator Habitat Program which includes providing FREE MILKWEED SEEDS to Tennessee residents.
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I have plenty of Milkweed.
DoubleRidge
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I've got 6 packs of seed through the TDOT project milkweed deal that Remington700 posted. Got some of the taller variety and some of tbe shorter variety and we do have some naturally growing in our area but we're wanting to improve and enlarge our pollenator habitat with a variety of wildflowers and native warm season grasses.
DoubleRidge
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Sounds like great habitat...and thats part of the problem...today most fields are kept clean all the way to the edge of a closed canopy forest...but more landowners are learning that the edge and corners of a field generally don't produce crops as well due to there being less sunlight and theres more competition from trees for moisture and nutrients....so edge feather and ecotone zones are becoming more popular for the wildlife and pollenator habitat manager...great oppurtunity for land managers to let edges and corners grow up for a year or two...bush hog or burn every couple years...and even run a disk around edge to open up the seed bank. Very cost effective way to improve wildlife habitat.
BSK
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Won't grow in the dry soil around my house, but the Harpeth River bottomlands (adjoined by the Harpeth Greenway) contain hundreds of acres of mostly milkweed and ironweed.
killingtime 41
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It grows on the sides of the road here and I've got a a bunch of it growing down many the mailbox. Picked a few pods couple years ago still have enough to use for now.
30-06 type of guy
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Don't know where you're located but Yanahli always has plenty
It's been over 50 years since I talked about Milkweed. If I remember right it's easier to grow where there are wet places. In our 100-acre CRP field, we only find it in the low places and next to the creek that runs though the middle of the field.
That is interesting that multiple people have stated that it is generally found in low lying areas. I have it on hill sides far from the creek bottom. I am starting to think i may have misidentified what it is.
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Catoosa is covered in it.
I've seen it occasionally on drier upland sites. As a matter of fact, I saw some last week up on bear hollow WMA on the side of the road up on top of the mountain. The pods had already burst open and had lost most of its floaters.
But why?
Just for wind checker.
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Yes. I planted some just by picking the pods like you did.
Scratched the top of the soil and lightly covered. In the fall. They need the cold weather to sprout in the spring. Spread the seeds in 5 or six different places and now I have 3 different groups of common milkweed. High and dry at my place.
They can spread by rhizomes as well. So plant them where they can spread or inside a enclosed bed.
They are poisonous to pets and other animals, so be cautious of where you plant them.
LOTS of different types of milkweed, including swamp milkweed.
Edited to add that the blooms smell amazingly good!!! Like lilac.
Scratched the top of the soil and lightly covered. In the fall. They need the cold weather to sprout in the spring. Spread the seeds in 5 or six different places and now I have 3 different groups of common milkweed. High and dry at my place.
They can spread by rhizomes as well. So plant them where they can spread or inside a enclosed bed.
They are poisonous to pets and other animals, so be cautious of where you plant them.
LOTS of different types of milkweed, including swamp milkweed.
Edited to add that the blooms smell amazingly good!!! Like lilac.
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