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Old 09-05-2008, 02:42 AM posted to rec.gardens.edible
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Default triple curled parsley as a perennial

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DougL wrote:

Here in zone 8, put in triple curled parsley plants last year.

If nothing else, you will make your local Swallowtail butterflies happy.
:-) Watch for the larvae. They love parsley so it's nice that you
planted extra for them!


What do those larvae look like?


Quite colorful. They start out looking like bird poop, then become these:

http://little-homeschool-on-the-prai...06/black-swall
owtail-caterpillars.html


Really, the performance of these plants is AMAZING. Can't believe I
used to spend real money in stores on fresh parsley ...


I ought to put more in. I like to feed it as greens to my cockatoo.
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