The plant grows quickly to two to four feet ... The alternative is to start common milkweed seeds indoors. Take into ...

Growing milkweed is one of the most rewarding actions ... If you prefer to start seeds indoors, stratify them by placing them ...

Follow guidance on the seed packet or in the catalog. Fast-growing species and cool-weather crops don’t need to be started indoors. Fast-growing species and cool-weather crops don’t need to be ...

Researchers have unlocked new insights into how the milkweed beetle thrives on toxic plants, shredding light on insect-plant ...

Milkweed and wildflowers may soon be a common sight growing around cornfields in an effort to help increase biodiversity in ...

Milkweed is the only host plant of monarch butterflies, meaning it’s the only plant on which monarchs will lay eggs and eat. Milkweed also provides a food source for many other pollinators.

Growing lettuce indoors in winter — even year-round ... The soil allows me to grow seeds with hulls, such as sunflower and buckwheat seeds, and maintains enough moisture for the plants ...

Biologists have curated the red milkweed beetle's genome and its arsenal of genes related to plant-feeding and other biological traits. They sequenced and assembled the entire genome of the ...

Alternatively, pick a variety that can be grown both indoors and out. Sow in early spring if you plan to grow plants in a heated greenhouse or in mid-spring for unheated greenhouses or to go outdoors.

SALT LAKE CITY — A Utah woman, on a quest to revive declining monarch butterfly populations, has become kind of a "Johnny Appleseed" of the milkweed plant. Several years ago, Rachel Taylor was ...

RIO GRANDE CITY, Texas— The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service today protected the prostrate milkweed as endangered. Only 24 populations of the plant survive, in south Texas and northern Mexico, where ...