Native Landscaping - Video 3 in a Series: Starting Native Seeds in Milk Jugs
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- Опубликовано: 11 окт 2024
- In conjunction with our native landscaping project, we have collected some local native seeds. To give them the cold treatment that they need to break dormancy, we are planting them up in milk jugs which will be left outside. This will mimic the cold treatment that the seeds would be exposed to in their natural setting. This is called stratification. We have planted up Common Milkweed (Asclepias syriaca), American Bladdernut (Staphylea trifolia), American Persimmon (Diospyros virginiana), PawPaw (Asimina triloba), Flowering Dogwood (Cornus florida), and Staghorn Sumac (Rhus typhina). We are normally very careful about adding plant material to our woodland, but are making an exception for this Native Planting. We are treating this more like gardening, and less like a restoration. We would welcome comments and suggestions about this project, and would appreciate hearing from people with more experience than us. We all benefit from the input of others through the comments. We would encourage those that are interested in Native Landscaping to check out our previous two videos in this series. There will also be more to come.
Oak Haven is a 60-acre private woodland in Southwestern Ohio near Cincinnati. Jim and Julie Varick both have degrees in Botany and over thirty years of experience in managing natural areas. They enjoy sharing their enthusiasm for the natural world and would like to build relationships with like-minded people to share knowledge and resources.
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Tip: make your list of plants on paper then number your jugs with the corresponding number. Also put that number on the bottom of the jug in case your paint pen fails.
Very good ideas! I do have them recorded on paper (including the collection locations), but do not have any cross reference to the jugs other than the marker labels.
I tape over what I write with clear tape to help preserve my label.
Thank you for your videos!!❤
Did I see you make holes in the bottom of your jugs for drainage? Or did I miss it? Super important, but terrific video, I can say this method works!
I thought I mentioned that, but might have overlooked it. Thanks for pointing it out.
Thanks for sharing! I remember seeing milkweed a lot as a child. Though, I can’t say I’ve seen much recently.
I feel the same way. It was harder to find than I imagined.
Thank you for the video. Have a wonderful holiday season, and best wishes for the New Year. Looking forward to the next video!
Thanks! Same to you.
Good stuff, Jim and Julie! I have commented in other videos, of yours, that I am doing pretty much the same thing as you, here in Iowa. We have 9 acres and it is over run with Bush Honeysuckle. I have ordered native species of hardwood, and fruit and nut bearing bearing shrubs to replace the barren landscape, but will allow my flock of chickens to run through and pick up the Honeysuckle berries, fertilize, and scarify the land first. I used this seasons honeysuckle to weave into a barbed wire fence that separates it from my neighbors property, so the chickens can't leave the property. You can imaging it is pretty impenetrable with as much debris as it produces. Last year it was used in a hugel mound fashion and laid in a contour terrace fashion to slow water run off and erosion, along with adding cover for small birds and rodents. Extremely rewarding, tough work that hopefully will pay off in the future. Thank you for all the videos and inspiration!
It sounds like you are being very creative turning those lemons into lemonade!
The BEST thing about the internet is finding kindred spirits, as this work is usually us doing our own thing on our land. It takes a lot to make and edit video, so much appreciate these.
Is it possible the Chickens eat the berries and poop them out to where they'd reseed?
@@karunald Good question! I'm not 100% positive, but think the chickens gizzards would pulverize the seeds and they wouldn't be viable. In my observations, after I wrote the first comment, most of the seeds were actually gone before I let my chickens in the area. I know there were a couple chipmunks in the area and maybe they got them?? I can say, that the amount of young honeysuckle coming up now out numbered the mature ones 10 fold. So now I need to figure out how to kill them. I want to spray but don't want to kill other species of plants I see mixed in with them. Such a nightmare!
@@jameswinnett4012 sometimes you just have to dig up the super special stuff and replant. Sometimes it's ok to sacrifice them.
As much common milkweed that grows on my property, I have yet to see any monarch caterpillars. I also have some joe-pye weed and they do get caterpillars on them. Usually see them in September. Seems kinda late for western Pa. On a side note. I was pulling some seeds out of them this fall and there was a deer tick in the fluff.
You sent a shiver up my spine with your deer tick comment!
I find scant butterflies on milkweed areas that have no flowers for them. For 'me', the flowers are the attractant to the area. Even if it's just a big pot of Zinnia.