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Or, you can grow tomatoes, watch birds peck a single @#$%^@#$%^@$%^& bite out of each @#$^@#$%^$%^& one, despite any netting, fencing or anything else short of
by sonicanatidae 3y ago
Or, you can grow tomatoes, watch birds peck a single @#$%^@#$%^@$%^& bite out of each @#$^@#$%^$%^& one, despite any netting, fencing or anything else short of an enclosed green house, throw your hands up in disgust and never touch dirt again.
It's not for everyone, but it certainly worked in my case. ;)
- klyrs 3y agoMy mom uses unmatched socks to protect her figs from the infernal starlings.
- 6510 3y agoYou wouldn't want the one with a bite out of it either? My version was 40 broccoli vs thousands of slugs. Apparently they smell it from as far as they can travel in a life time.
- sonicanatidae 3y agoWith slugs, at least you can stomp a few of them into paste and gain a pyrrhic victory. Birds? You're the old man and his son in that Simpsons episode shaking your fist at the sky, upset because you can't shake harder. That being said, 1000s of slugs is practically insurmountable unless you plan to salt the Earth (figurately and literally) or kill the entire neighborhood with fire. Both have...consequences beyond the initial issue. ;)
- 6510 3y agoBesides the ones drowned in beer I collected about half a bucket every morning. The solution would be for everyone in the neighborhood to grow food and get rid of their car so that the hedgehog population can grow to match the food supply.
- Loughla 3y agoBeer is the best slug killer. A little in the bottom of a plastic dish, and they'll drink themselves to death. It saved our broccoli and cabbage.
- 6510 3y agoyeah, I dug in cups that would fill up with slugs then the new slugs would eat the old ones. One or two would eat some broccoli per day until they all looked inedible. 4-5 bottles of beer per day could buy a lot of broccoli. It didn't add up.
- Loughla 3y agoThat's fair. A relative left a 12 pack of stag at my house, so I used that gross stuff. I was less concerned about price that way.
- HeyLaughingBoy 3y agoThis is me with an apple tree and worms. I just accepted that there will be at least one worm/bee/parasite in each apple, so I eat around it and throw the remainder to the horses.