TreeDazzled, I tried sugar pine seeds from Schumacker last spring. I only purchased a trial packet so I only had a handfull of seeds to work with. I placed them in moist milled sphagnum moss in my fridge crisper drawer for the designated amount of time recommended by their website. Also, I cleaned the seeds off from the ridiculous amount of mould once a week or so. No removal of seedcoat, scarification, or any special treatment. I believe out of about a dozen or so seeds only about two didn't grow. By this past fall I had about 10, 8" sugar pine babies! Sadly, the rabbits ate them all during the winter months. I was quite upset to say the least. Good luck with Schumacker, I've ordered from them a few times before with excellent results in all instances.

I don't know wild parsley, but I do know about Queen Anne's Lace. It's also called "wild carrot", but that's only a common name as far as I know. It is bienial-- first year it comes up from seed, it looks alot like parsley or carrot tops. Stays fairly short. The second year it comes up and grows from carrot tops to a big flowering maniac; lots of lacey blooms w/ that red central mark. Then very quickly the flowers turn into seed, rolling in on themselves to look like nests or cups full of seeds/burrs. The seeds are grey/brown oblongs covered with what look like velcro hooks. If you have Queen Anne's Lace, I suggest you deadhead the flowers or seed heads while still green or you will have alot more than you want.

Thanks for that link to the DNR site, jel48. My version of the plant appears to spread by underground roots, not seeds- the leaves are also slightly different. I would encourage you all to come and dig it up but then you'd hate me forever. Seriously. I'm going to take a tip from 'Eat more dirt' and pour boiling water on it. BTW when is the Como swap? I am right by Como. I am also volunteering at the Friends' sale in May.

if QAL is a biennial primarily and u had a lot of it flowering the first year after prep work, u see my problem? and now u say u have a goldenrod coming up only 2 years after prep work. i would postulate on a reason for ur situation this way; rototilling did a total soil distruption and chopped up agressive perennials and others roots and stems and rhizomes, etc into a thick biological soup. u then proceded to kill off annuals and perennials with ur apps of round up thruout the growing season. but what may also have happened is that u mix'ed it up too strong and only topkilled some of the stronger and harder to kill longer lived plants vs easily killing shorter to live annuals (and their offspring cuz their annuals) that were easily rounded up. there is also the simple fact that one season of roundup sometimes just plainly doesnt do the trick on many spp. what remains is QAL and other 'stronger' plants. and this is where my original question comes up about what else is lurking there... as to ur comment before about taking out the goldenrod with round up. how and when did u go about doing that? because, not only have u killed that little area of goldenrod (if ur lucky, u killed it...) but u prolly also killed many of the little seedings that are trying to eek out a living under the cover of larger plants; ie ur seeded prairie seedlings. my suggestion is to make sure that u spray the goldenrod whilst in flower with a very fine 1.5% solution on a calm morning after the freeze date or just as the goldenrod is in full hight of flowering. after freeze date is less agressive and full flowering is a more agressive treatment. and as one moves up the agressive scale, one also moves up the side effects of the treatment. thats why i say that one has to pick their battles wisely, because many times the treatment is causing more harm than the surface disease. i would also re-seed these treated areas with the faster growing pioneering plants. because chances are better than not that all that is gonna come up after a spot treatment of a complete killer like round up is more bad stuff because u have already seen what is already in the soil and u have just sprayed away ur 2year old seedlings. round up kills green but not seeds, roots and other would be nastyies. nature abhors a vacuum and sumthing is gonna grow there...if u have 30 years of weed seeds and roots and others vs 1 seeding of prairie that takes 10+yrs to get moving... froggy