Post by erik on May 1, 2024 11:49:28 GMT -8
Last year I started some milkweed. I did everything I was told, they started fine and they survived the replant into the back yard where they thrived for the rest of the summer.
I was quite pleased and looked forward to single handedly saving the Monarch Butterfly from extinction thus becoming a hero and an honourable mention in the biology textbooks
for ever. The plants began losing their leaves around the beginning of October like all their neighbours and my winter was spent waiting for their return with, no doubt, huge flocks
of Monarchs possibly visible from space each vying for a feeding.
After the milkweed plants lost their leaves in the Fall they were basically just skinny little white poles sticking out of the dirt. After Spring arrived they were still basically just skinny little white poles sticking out of the dirt. Now that all their little friends are covered in leaves and new growth they are still basically just skinny little white poles sticking out of the dirt. I keep tell myself, maybe tomorrow. But now it's May and I think that there's a good chance that they may be dead. Or the Monarchs came back with such a voracious appetite that they stripped them and killed them in one morning before I had a chance to run outside with baited breath to observe that, yes today, there would be a life changing experience in my back yard.
So I guess it's just not to be. I blame myself, of course, having broken one of the Buddha's tenets regarding boastful talk.
Next time I won't brag. I promise. But in the meantime could someone please instruct me in the most humble manner possible, how to grow these d**n weeds. And please don't let this story
get out. I will never live down with my fellow gardeners about failing to grow even the lowliest weed. And imagine what the Monarchs may think!
