• UnRelatedBurner@sh.itjust.works
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    58
    ·
    8 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
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      18
      arrow-down
      1
      ·
      8 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

    • derpgon@programming.dev
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      9
      ·
      8 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.

            • imPastaSyndrome@lemm.ee
              link
              fedilink
              arrow-up
              6
              ·
              8 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

                • prayer@lemmy.world
                  link
                  fedilink
                  arrow-up
                  9
                  arrow-down
                  1
                  ·
                  8 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.

        • derpgon@programming.dev
          link
          fedilink
          arrow-up
          4
          ·
          8 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 👌