So I was thinking this as I watered my plants the other day. I stumbled across this.....
Sahih Bukhari Volume 8, Book 73, Number 41:
Narrated Anas bin Malik:
The Prophet said, "If any Muslim plants any plant and a human being or an animal eats of it, he will be rewarded as if he had given that much in charity."
Re: Oh, slugs and caterpillars why do you eat my garden?
I will try to think of our slugs and caterpillars in such charitable way, Orchid ... but it won't be easy!
I usually go out after rainfall and gather up the snails to take them out into some field.
Once the plants have grown to full maturity I don't find the thought of slugs, snails and caterpillars taking a little nibble so bad ... but I HATE it when I plant baby plants in the spring and the next morning they have completely vanished!!
Peace glo
Here I stand.
I can do no other.
May God help me.
Amen.
Come, let us worship and bow down •
and kneel before the Lord our Maker
[Psalm 95]
Re: Oh, slugs and caterpillars why do you eat my garden?
All of our parsley is gone to caterpillars. I took them off and relocated them, and a few days later there was a whole new batch of them, so I relocated them again and a week later a whole new batch. By the third time the parsley was completely gone.
SilverOrchid, that is such a nice sentiment! It is a shame I don't have 3 batches of beautiful butterflies flitting around after having eaten their fill.
I often have a similar thought when I weed my garden. We get the most horrid of burrs here, several varieties, and some are like thumtacks, and when I weed and the burrs stick in my fingers then I thank God for the burrs in my fingers, because every burr in my finger is one less in the garden.
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