Mary has gardening plans. She has taken over the sun room and filled it with seedlings.
We’re growing lots of milkweed, if you can’t tell.
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Mary has gardening plans. She has taken over the sun room and filled it with seedlings.
We’re growing lots of milkweed, if you can’t tell.
Sounds like you are planning to attract millions of butterflies and other insects. If I remember correctly milkweed is a favorite food of monarch butterfly caterpillars. As a fantasy, I wish you would focus on creating your army of monster mutant mump killing spiders, instead.
we should grow milkweed. we have almost too much land for our increasingly decrepit asses to work with. cleared blackberries last year and a bazillion dames rocket and foxglove grew in this year. at least those plants are taking care of themselves.
We have a milkweed patch, and we’re encouraging it to spread. But for the last few years when I’ve inspected the plants I haven’t found any eggs. I might have missed them, but we’ve only seen a few monarchs each year for the last few years.
On the plus side the orioles are nesting, which I think is a first for us. As usual we have plenty of red-winged blackbirds, bluebirds, robins, house-finches, hummingbirds, and the local downy woodpecker has decided that the fruit we put out for the orioles is just what they wanted.
We’re beginning to think it may be time to get some bees.
That’s extreme. And I thought my little greenhouse was over the top.
Great idea. Do you grow them from seeds?
If you consider smart horticulture I recommend you plant Stevland
(Readers of Semiosis will get it. Good SF).