Growing your garden.

1. Dig

Dig hole AS DEEP and twice as wide as plant container
2. Fill

Fill planting hole with water and allow to percolate (drain) into subsoil.
3. Set

Set plant root ball in hole, ensuring that plant collar is above finished grade. Add soil beneath root ball if necessary. Plant milkweed 18 inches apart
4. finish

Finish by filling the hole with the remaining dirt. Be sure the plant collar is above the ground.
5 water

Water your newly planted plants so that the entire root ball, the surrounding soil, and the soil below is well saturated. You cannot water too much during this first watering.

Initial Maintenance

Water your newly planted seedlings with 2 or more gallons of water per plant each time you water. In the first summer, you may need to water as often as 2 or 3 times a week and taper it off to once every two weeks or less as the cool season progresses in fall/winter. After that time, ongoing maintenance watering every two weeks to once a month is recommended, but not mandatory. NOTE: Native milkweed goes dormant during the cool season, so if you see your milkweed plant turn brown during this time, it is not dead. Its roots are still active and you should continue to water it periodically until it "wakes up" from its slumber in the springtime.