Yellow Butterfly Weed
I forget each year how quickly tomatoes sprout and grow and how slow peppers are. I transplanted the tomatoes to larger containers (1 and 2 cup yogurt containers) before I left for California on April 10. I still haven’t transplanted the peppers — they don’t seem to have outgrown their 9-packs yet — but I will this weekend in the hopes that they will start growing. I planted some yellow butterfly weed seeds that I collected from plants in Evian, France on the shore of Lake Geneva. They had shriveled up and I was sure they were sterile and had no content – just being the hull – but they all sprouted and now I have about 40 little seedlings. My yellow butterfly weed seedlings from last year haven’t come up and I wonder whether they have survived.
I just ran across this sentence in abnatives.com: “Like many milkweeds, plants are slow to emerge from the ground in spring.” So we will hope that last year’s seedlings will yet appear.
