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OK. I tried growing vegetables but I'm too squeamish to eat them.

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  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    I could handle finding a whole caterpillar moving  about on a lettuce leaf. I would have issues with finding half a caterpillar.
    Its the idea of finding a cooked one that revolts me.

    At least witchetty grubs are easy to spot.

    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • OmoriOmori Posts: 1,674
    Egads this is putting me right off growing fruit and veg!  What crops are less prone to wrigglers that I could try once I get a veg patch set up?
  • fidgetbonesfidgetbones Posts: 17,618
    I'm told they taste like custard, but no I didn't eat one in Australia when I was offered one.
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    I don't know but I'm sticking to the ones with a  definite shape with a skin that you can spot holes in.
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • HelixHelix Posts: 631
    I don’t mean to poke fun at you but that did make me laugh!  I can't count the number of times I've found caterpillars and slugs in a supermarket lettuce/cauliflower/etc...so at least I know that my own ones have had happy, healthy lives and haven’t been sprayed with chemicals. 
  • dappledshadedappledshade Posts: 1,017
    Really rethinking my whole veg patch now! And I just had my dinner so 🤢
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    I know I'm being totally illogical and utterly stupid but try telling yourself that when there's caterpillar shaped bits of broccoli on your plate! 
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • EricaheatherEricaheather Posts: 204
     :D 
  • raisingirlraisingirl Posts: 7,093
    Advice to Children by Roy Fuller

    Caterpillars living on lettuce
    Are the colour of their host
    Look out when you're eating salad
    For the greens that move the most

    Close your mouth tight when you're running
    As when washing you shut your eyes
    Then as soap is kept from smarting
    So will tonsils be from flies

    If in spite of such precautions
    Anything nasty gets within
    Remember that it will be thinking
    Far worse for me than him

    Gardening on the edge of Exmoor, in Devon

    “It's still magic even if you know how it's done.” 
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    I know an old lady who swallowed a fly...
    In London. Keen but lazy.
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