>>Milk weed never did live in cropped land.  If you have ever tried to dig up a mature milk weed and replant it you will understand why as you watch it die.  It does not tolerate root disturbance very well.<<

I grew up on a farm beside the Yellowstone River.  We also had long-established irrigation ditches.  Milkweed and wild aspergus grew on the ditch banks in clusters.  One had to hunt for the asparagus, the milkweed was more obvious.  Neither tolerate digging up and replanting well.  If one ran too far up the bank with a disc, that was often the end of the patch.   

Something only us old-timers may remember.  My mother had us kids collect milkweed pods in fall.  She'd take the tear-drop shaped pod shell, spray gold or white, add tiny figures, little wreaths, etc.   Put a wire through the tip - Christmas tree ornaments. 


             ***********************************************
The BEE-L mailing list is powered by L-Soft's renowned
LISTSERV(R) list management software.  For more information, go to:
http://www.lsoft.com/LISTSERV-powered.html