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Sep 24, 2024 6:38 PM CST
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Growing zone 8a, South Carolin
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Yesterday this was a happy, vibrant, thriving parsley plant. Today when I went out it was all wilted and falling over like this. You can kind of see in the picture that no other plants experienced this. What could have possibly caused this one single plant to suddenly become wilted and dying like this? I've been watering it just like all the other plants.
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Sep 24, 2024 7:15 PM CST
Name: Porkpal
Richmond, TX (Zone 9a)
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Your cat slept on it?
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Sep 24, 2024 7:19 PM CST
Name: PotterK
Seattle, WA
something girdled the roots?
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Sep 24, 2024 10:08 PM CST
Name: Zoƫ
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That's weird. I know you said you watered it, but did you try watering some more? Looks like it was a big, healthy plant Sad
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Sep 24, 2024 11:13 PM CST
Name: Sally
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Have you checked the roots?
In my yard, in ground, a vole comes up and eats all the roots without any evidence above ground. I don't think a vole would go in a planter but..?
Plant it and they will come.
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Sep 25, 2024 5:54 AM CST
Name: stone
near Macon Georgia (USA) (Zone 8a)
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sallyg said: Have you checked the roots?

I was thinking the same thing... until I rechecked the planter... It's up in the air on legs!

Be kinda hard to provide the necessary care to a planter like that around here... everything would look like that parsley... not just the one plant.

Animal sleeping on the parsley is a good possibility... But the entire plant would be flattened...

I'm wondering about some kinda root rot... Like maybe plant is drowned.
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Oct 14, 2024 7:08 PM CST
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Growing zone 8a, South Carolin
There is a cat in the neighborhood that roams around. As some of you suggested, I suspect it might have made this parsley plant as its bed. That's the only thing I can think of to explain what caused this.
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