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How else am I supposed to remove the ice from my sidewalk???
Can someone explain?
Sorry, I still don’t get the part about “salting the earth”. Is that something people do to get rid of weeds?
Yep. Did this recently actually lol.
But also commonly known as a war thing, done to render the enemy’s land infertile. Can’t grow food for a while and stuff.
Neither of these things really make much sense in context, though.
We (in Germany) use salt in winter to defrost the pavement and streets but it doesn’t have a big effect on the weeds. They still appear from any crack they can find.
I remember hearing that the Sahara desert was created by Romans salting the earth.
That can’t possibly be true?
Also I wonder how it is connected to Jesus saying ‘you are the salt of the earth’. That seems like am entirely different thing, but then again maybe not?
I feel like the most modern equivalent is Vietnam.
Homer Simpson’s take on it:
Yes.
And it’s just as bad / good as glyphosate?
No, salt is not toxic. But makes it hard for most things to grow until the sodium washes up.
The handy men did manage to kill one of our roses by salting our sidewalk against weeds.
Salt (sodium) messes with the ability of plants to absorb certain nutrients from the soil, so if that soil wasn’t very rich to begin with it can easily starve whatever is nearby.
I personally tried to kill weeds with salt in certain spots of my backyard and failed because it has plenty of nutrients and good drainage, salt doesn’t last long after a couple rains.
It’s way worse than glyphosate. Nothing grows until it washes up, what can take many years.
Monsanto did some fucked up shit
Vinegar works faster
I’ve always wondered about the whole “you are the salt of the earth” thing. Did they mean it in a positive or negative way?
I didn’t realize until you said that
But Brawndo has electrolytes! It’s what plants crave!
till
\sigh
Maybe they mean they’re at the brimstone till to buy some brimstone.
Or, maybe they’re a brimstone farmer and need to till the land specifically for brimstone.
We’ll just never know…
glycophosate
is that supposed to be glycophosphate? If not what is that?
edit: nvm… I may have been saying it wrong all these years.
Brimstone. Girls would never take him home,
A fitting fate for Carthage I say! Right after we destroy it!
