Healthy soil and sustainable growing

["elaine davis" <happycat@surfinthenet.net>]

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