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  • From: "elaine davis" <happycat@surfinthenet.net>
  • To: "Healthy soil and sustainable growing" <livingontheland@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Livingontheland] Walnuts/parsley
  • Date: Sat, 23 Sep 2006 23:44:41 -0400

Barb, my husband said caterpillars don't eat off a large parsley plant exactly like someone using scissors. I found the caterpillers two days after we first saw the parsley was cut clean off. Pretty sure those caterpillers would have been spoted first time we looked at it, I just didn't say so to the group. I just wanted them to quit going on about the parsley. Seems they were overreacting to the whole thing, wanting me to go bang on doors and demand to find out who did it. I'm not that kind of person. Sure I'll mention it to the group, but not bang on doors or cause a stink about it. I could actually start growing parsley in my back yard and put a padlock on the gate if it bugs me that much or if the rosemary and oregano up front with the parsley plant were to also get snipped.
Speaking of squirrels, wish we had some, not a squirrel around here.
Happycat

----- Original Message ----- From: "TradingPostPaul" <tradingpost@riseup.net>
To: <livingontheland@lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Saturday, September 23, 2006 8:51 PM
Subject: [Livingontheland] Walnuts/was Livingontheland Digest, Vol 59,Issue 6


It might also be that the wildlife (squirrels,etc) have been stocking up
for a cold winter???And maybe the tree that was still full of fruit was
closer or protected in some way?? Kinda reminds me of someone on another
list who was complaining how the "foreigners" in her mixed neighborhood had
stolen all her parsley. Upon closer inspection she found that it was really
caterpillars that had eaten them all.

Barb





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