grasshoppers, formerly Re: CONFESSIONS
- To: , "Sean A. O'Hara"
- Subject: grasshoppers, formerly Re: CONFESSIONS
- From: J*
- Date: Sat, 11 Dec 1999 09:11:18 -0800
I thought I had ameliorated my grasshopper problem this year when my son's
chickens roamed the garden and ate most of them--it's the first summer in a
long while that my garden hasn't been skeletonized. However, one morning I
woke up to hear my neighbor yelling out "Go home you free range @#$%^&*".
For some reason the chickens gravitated to the one neighbor who despises
them. So they are now penned up, and I guess the grasshoppers will have
free range next season.
-----Original Message-----
From: riedy <rriedy@unm.edu>
To: Sean A. O'Hara <sean.ohara@groupmail.com>
Cc: medit-plants@ucdavis.edu <medit-plants@ucdavis.edu>
Date: Friday, December 10, 1999 3:53 PM
Subject: Re: CONFESSIONS
>I use no pesticides, etc. As a consequence, I have a flourishing garden
>only from March to about the middle of June, which is when nature with a
>great crashing fanfare finds its summer balance: grasshoppers,
>hordes, plagues of them (not the occasional mavericks that dainty
>gardening books say I can control by picking off the plants of a fine,
>summer morn). I suppose there might be something admirable about a summer
>graveyard of plant skeletons, though for the life of me I've yet to attain
>such appreciation. But I'm tryin'. The Extension Agent laughed and said
>that since I didn't want to use chemicals, I could hope for a big wind to
>blow them onto someone else's property. But Nature, who produces the wind
>and the grasshoppers, had a big sly grin for that: there isn't a wind
>known that can dislodge a grasshopper.
>
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