Mid-Atlantic Gardening: Plant It and They Will Come part 6, 1 by coleup

coleup wrote:
Gita, super seed saver that you are, please DO NOT deadhead your swamp milkweed! After blooms dry, it will form seed pods very similar to the ones your Tropical MW formed last year, long and skinny. Let the pods mature and then collect them. (If you are 'worried' about them spreading seed in your garden, jus tput a rubber band around them while they ripen,

Monarch Watch, a national organization collects seeds from each eco-region around the country, propagates starter MW from those gardener collected seeds and sells them back to gardeners in need from the region the seeds came from on their Milkweed Market Place. They are non profit and also give away free seeds to schools etc. They are looking for swamp MW seeds from our area.
http://monarchwatch.org/bring-back-the-monarchs/milkweed/mil...
http://monarchwatch.org/milkweed/market/

Swamp Milkweed is shallow rooted and easy to move around, again like the Tropical from last year, and it doesn't spread by underground rhyzome.