Name: Terri Osipov Rome, Georgia (Zone 7b) Every day in the yard is a GOOD day
Thanks so much to Mellie, Kent and Stone. I joined a website "monarchbutterflygarden.net" to participate in the Raise the Migration project. I don't remember where I found that referral. Anyway, I have purchased MANY different kinds of milkweed seeds and direct sowed them because I don't have seed heat mats. I am buying some this summer so that I can start seeds indoors for next year's gardening. I just can't understand for the life of me why I can't get a dern seed (weed seed yet!) to grow when I have followed all the instructions. I live in a rural area where most parcels are 5 acres and are either residential/farm or residential/meadow/undeveloped. So, the weeds and wildflowers abound. Oddly, I have never seen the caterpillars that become the Gulf Fritallary, but I did find the adorable Spicevine Swallowtail caterpillars on my sassafras trees. I will follow up on the websites y'all listed above and try again. I am determined to do some good and turn my brown thumbs to green.
"Speak to the Earth and it shall teach Thee" Job 12:8
and turn my brown thumbs to green. 
