Anyone want free milkweed seeds?

[Three Cedars Silkies]

Would love some...

PM me if you still have some to share

 

[Bettacreek]

I still have seeds left. For anyone who has sent for them, please place them in the freezer for a month. I had them on the porch to freeze, but I don't think it was long enough with the warm days. Thanks to everyone who sent seeds and along with their envelopes! That is warmly appreciated! Good luck with your seeds everyone!!!

 

[Birch Run Farm]

Milkweed is not toxic at all. In fact, it is a delicious edible. I like the raw flowers to put into salad. They taste somewhat like a raw broccoli but sweeter. The young pods can also be steamed and eaten like a vegetable as can the leaves. As far as livestock, well I only have fowls and my ducks especially demolish it. It is a beneficial plant, it attacts pollinators as well as monarchs. The white sap is not bitter at all. The flowers are sweetly scented and are awesome on a warm summer night. Chicks and their mommas love resting in the shade of milkweed patches.

Now on the otherhand, DOGBANE, which looks somewhat similar to common milkweed, is poisonous.

 

[fancbrd4me02]

Some types of Milkweeds are toxic, some are not. Use caution if thinking of ingesting or feeding to your animals.

 

[fancbrd4me02]

This site talks about milkweed. http://www.wildfoods.info/wildfoods/milkweed.html

 

[cococrisp]

Don't they like parsley too?????

 

[spook]

Speaking of milkweed seeds and plants, I want to share a tidbit about them that my mom recalled from her early days at the one room schoolhouse here in Maine. One day each week was out in the feild day, carry a sac and scouring the countryside for milkweed pods. They not only found a lot of bugs and stuff, but the milkweed pods that they collected went to the manufacturer of life jackets. These pods not to be compared with new aged materials for life preservers, was known for its air packed and rugged nature to help in war time.
If you are allergic to Latex, try to avoid this plant, the white milky discharge is a form of raw latex.
Also the use of the fuzzy parts of the seeds were used in the early 1900's for forming backgrounds in pictures that were made by patients at the Hebron TB Sanitorium. They would weave tray type baskets with a thin wood back, pod silk, and then added butterflies with other pressed flowers. These two trays I have are a pride and joy that has been passed down through the generations.

Have a great day!!!

 

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