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[-] UnRelatedBurner@sh.itjust.works 58 points 9 months ago

I get the poor animals part, but this just seems like avarage shit you have to do in the countryside. Any good country folk know that (some) animals are your enemy, if there are wasps near your house? You kill them, their nest, wait for the extended family to search for their homes and kill them too. Now it's a much safer enviroment. Same with all rodents, same with all insects, same with slugs.. I guess, I never heard of a slug problem.

[-] Baines@lemmy.world 17 points 9 months ago

if there’s kittens in your barn and one gets in front of your tractor that’s just life

farmer relative

country folks can be just cold blooded

[-] Venator@lemmy.nz 7 points 9 months ago

Sounds like the opposite of "just life" to me 😂

[-] SanndyTheManndy@lemmy.world 5 points 9 months ago

you are either metaphorically cold blooded or literally cold blooded in the country. gotta do what you gotta do.

[-] derpgon@programming.dev 9 points 9 months ago

I used to have a can full of salty water and a little piece of wood with a big nail extending out one end (looked like a prison shiv). I'd impale the slugs and put them in the can. Leave the can overnight, dump em by the field in the morning, rinse and repeat whenever needed.

[-] UnRelatedBurner@sh.itjust.works 4 points 9 months ago

I'd just spray the field with slug poison at this point. But I guess it's more natural.

[-] imPastaSyndrome@lemm.ee 10 points 9 months ago

Ah yes, slug poison the thing that won't hurt your crops..... Salt.

[-] UnRelatedBurner@sh.itjust.works 6 points 9 months ago
[-] imPastaSyndrome@lemm.ee 6 points 9 months ago

No offense, but you're definitely the type that would've in the middle ages salted his own crops and then cursed the "witch" next door

[-] UnRelatedBurner@sh.itjust.works 3 points 9 months ago

idk how good or bad salting soil is. Probably bad.

[-] prayer@lemmy.world 8 points 9 months ago

Very bad. In antiquity, if an army felt personally slighted by a populace, instead of just burning their crops, they would burn and salt the fields. That would prevent the earth from being arable for generations. The salt prevents plant roots from drawing up water, so until the salt is washed away with enough rain (talking tens to hundreds of years depending on how much salt), nothing will grow.

[-] UnRelatedBurner@sh.itjust.works 1 points 9 months ago

Good to know, thanks!

[-] derpgon@programming.dev 4 points 9 months ago

Gotta get used to it. It's free and more ecological - no chemicals at all. Also great grandpa-grandson bonding time. Slugs first, homegrown cucumber with salt later 👌

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