PETITTI Milkweed Spotlight | Grow Asclepias for Monarchs & Other Pollinators
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- Опубліковано 25 сер 2024
- Looking for a true powerhouse pollinator plant? Look no further than Milkweed! This Ohio native plant is the host plant for the entire monarch lifecycle and it supports multiple other pollinators as well. Watch this video with Noelle, Horticulturist, and Education Manager with Petitti Garden Centers, to learn more about growing Milkweed for Monarchs. She covers the best way to care for the three different types we grow, Common Milkweed (Asclepias syriaca), Swamp Milkweed (Asclepias incarnata), and Butterfly Weed (Asclepias tuberosa). Plus, she shares some additional native perennials that pollinators love!
Showy and pretty back edger! You have convinced me to give Milkweed maybe Cinderella a try in the garden,. Thank you for all of your information and mentioning what to plant with milkweed is great to know, Noelle.
I plant 1 plant about 2 years ago. The orange kind. Monarchs stripped it the1st year. I just let them come upwhere ever they want to. I have 10 plants now. The leaves grow back.❤
I would love more native plant vids please! 😊
Your knowledge and ability to teach well and engage the learner is always so impressive! Thanks so much I learned a great deal today!
Great presentation on Milkweed!!
Fall is the perfect time to plant milkweed seeds. Plant some today!! ❤
Love milkweed and have been adding the better behaved varieties to my gardens, since the standard type grows wild. Swamp milkweed is about to bloom and I can’t wait 🤩 I’m eventually trying to add every variety that will grow well here. Thanks for spotlighting this valuable (beautiful!) native plant!
I winter sowed several types. Orange butterfly weed did the best, but I also got some white and pink swamp milkweed seedlings 🎉
Gosh I wish I had your knowledge! Just recently discovered you and have been binge watching your older videos. Your a wealth of knowledge is wonderful and even though I have gardened and sold at many venues for over 25 years I find myself still thirsting for everything I can learn... everyday. Thanks again 😎
I’m in 100% clay & it’s a chore getting most types of milkweed established. Like the video mentions, amend the soil too much with organic material & you’ll burn them up. If you leave them in the clay, you won’t get the desired drainage & you’ll drown em. Finally finding success through mounding & making sure to use recycled, average soil. Am going to try a mass plant, next year, in pots
One thing I've found helps is to use a pressure washer to bore down deep into the ground. It's quick and easy, and you have no problem getting down the whole length of the wand in just a minute or two. This deep drilling gives the tap root plenty of room to grow without having to work hard at boring through hard clay, and increases the drainage capacity of the clay. Plus, it's just plain fun to use a pressure washer like this! 😁
@@threeriversforge1997 will def give it a try‼️‼️🤝🤝
@@Chromeostasis Here's the vid that gave me the idea -- ua-cam.com/video/pjjE3VEohE0/v-deo.html
While his PW is far more powerful than my little Greenworks model, I had no problem excavating down 24" in under a minute. Making a hole large enough to take a 3" pot, in South Carolina clay, is incredibly fast and easy. Then it's just a matter of backfilling the waterlogged hole with some organic matter that'll let the rain filter down and away from the growing root system.
The PW has also proven fantastic at removing shrubs. While he's getting under that cement and post in the video, the same technique really makes short work of getting under a bush! I pulled up two shrubs that'd been in the ground for decades, and it took me about 20 minutes each. Mostly, I was just having fun and enjoying the fact that I didn't need to swing a mattock or shovel for an hour.
Once you try the pressure washer, you'll start hunting for excuses to use it around the homestead. 😁
Raised beds work well too.
Thanks Noelle for the valuable info...especially about Ohio. I'm planting "commons" from seed. Winter has been fairly warm here so keeping them in the fridge for couple months, then into the ground.
Thank you for the great info. I wish you would have mentioned that milkweed attracts aphids, but do the monarch still lay eggs on aphid laden milkweed? Thank you.
We put a ring of coffee grounds around our milkweed and roses to repel aphids. We save all of our coffee grounds in an empty coffee can. Let them dry for a day on the lid to prevent mold in the can. If you already have aphids, look on the web for dishsoap remedies.
Should do a spotlight on the Joe pye weed behind you 👀
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My milkweed is always covered in aphids. Does that hurt the the caterpillars?
The aphids suck the nutrients out of the milkweed. But luckily they don't hurt the caterpillars. Usually ~once they're present, ladybugs will appear and take care of them. I leave the aphids alone, unless I have an unusually aggressive situation. If they are overtaking the milkweed , I simply squish them between my thumb and pointer finger. Hope this helps.
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We put a ring of coffee grounds around our roses and milkweed to repel aphids. If they become a problem, check the internet for dishsoap-mix remedies.
@@skylady64ish93okay, so how do I entice the ladybugs to come over and munch on these darn aphids 😅
What is the difference between milk weed and milk thistle? We have milk thistle with monarchs.
Hi. Milkweed is food, shelter, and a place to grow within their chrysalis. They complete their lifecycle from egg, hungry caterpillar, chrysalis and final butterfly. Monarch butterflies can not survive without milkweed. Please plant some today, fall is the perfect time to get seeds into the ground for spring growth.
Thank You.
I've never been able to get Asclepias to root from a cutting.