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May 20, 2015 7:39 PM CST
Name: Donald
Eastland county, Texas (Zone 8a)
Raises cows Enjoys or suffers hot summers Region: Texas Plant Identifier
Danita said:Do you have any Queen Anne's Lace that's weeded itself on your property? They'll use that and a lot of carrot family plants. Smiling It might be getting too warm in Texas, but you could always sow a new batch of fennel seeds, or dill, etc.


No. It's too late to grow anything from seeds. The caterpillars are already actively growing. By the time a seed got large enough to feed them, they'd have already starved. I'll just have to keep the plants I have growing somehow. They aren't eating the center where it keeps putting up growth. Not yet, anyway. I may check back where I got these plants and see if they still have some.
Donald

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