Re: grasshoppers, formerly Re: CONFESSIONS
- To: Julie
- Subject: Re: grasshoppers, formerly Re: CONFESSIONS
- From: r*
- Date: Mon, 13 Dec 1999 09:24:57 -0800 (PST)
Ironically, I am the only real gardener on my road, yet I am the only
property owner not allowed to have chickens, ducks, guinea
hens--any sort of livestock, as I didn't live here when the village
annexed this area, and thus was not grandfathered in. Meanwhile, we've got
cocks crowing 24 hours a day all around. Big city bumpkin
moves to the country and discovers the facts of life.
On Sat, 11 Dec 1999, Julie wrote:
> Date: Sat, 11 Dec 1999 09:11:18 -0800
> From: Julie <jaknelson@shastalink.k12.ca.us>
> To: rriedy@unm.edu, "Sean A. O'Hara" <sean.ohara@groupmail.com>
> Cc: medit-plants@ucdavis.edu
> Subject: grasshoppers, formerly Re: CONFESSIONS
>
> 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.
> >
> >
>
>
