Blueberry Acres
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These sprouted in a pile of fireplace ashes in my raspberry patch, close to a swamp milkweed bush. I’ve never seen milkweed seedlings in person, but these sort of look like the photos online. What do y’all think?
Seedlings popped up in a pile of ashes - milkweed?
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R2elk
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It does look like milkweed seedlings. I would pull them now while you still can.
Carol Dee
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Do you have maple trees nearby? I was just out pulling maple seedlings that look like that before they set the 1st true maple leaf.
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Blueberry Acres
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Not too nearby, but we have them.
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I'll probably just have to wait until a few real leaves come in to tell what they are.
ducks4you
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Being a big vegetation burner I can tell you that those are NOT maples. If I left my property for 5 years it would be a maple forest and I consider their sprouts to be one more WEED.
If seeds sprouted in your ashes they probably blew in or were deposited by some bird.
If seeds sprouted in your ashes they probably blew in or were deposited by some bird.
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It ended up being some sort of vine, I forget which kind. Not milkweed.
