Posted by Billy NY on June 11, 2008 at 14:19:32 from (64.12.117.74):
In Reply to: Re: milkweed gone ! posted by bill mart on June 11, 2008 at 13:53:51:
It's a perennial, but the seeds are overwhelming, if you cut it after it's flowered and gone to seed, you need to have a screen on the radiator and clean often, loads up with thick fuzz. I have taken photos over the years of our fields where I have cut, some easily 6 feet tall in rainy years, nothing else seems to grow with it, though it can be in patches too, I have cut and kept cutting it in areas where grasses surrounded it, the grasses finally took back over, it's slow to start, so if something else is planted to shade it out, it will go away, I thought that if I got it before it went to seed that would happen, but if truly a perennial, it comes back, though I think that seed certainly reinforces it.
Apparently Edison made rubber from it, good lasting type rubber, funny how something literally requires no nurturing, comes back every year, does well with lots of rain, can produce something like rubber, somehow got bypassed, kind of reminds me of other similar examples, hemp, and alternate fuels/energy, you always wonder why it was never used especially if viable to use.
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