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Re: Strawberries, birds and snakes

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Hi Trudi,
My sister recommended getting a mating pair of black snakes to keep the
unwanted variety away. But I'm not a real fan of ANY snake.  I had never
heard of the cucumber smell before that may be useful.  I'm like you, I
don't care what color it is I OUTTA there!  We have a lot of land and a lot
of fallen and overgrown timber, rock abandonded stuff. Probably great places
to find snakes.  Time to start keeping the grass cut so they stay where they
are (if they are there?)   Boy have we gotten OT!  Someone will probably
complain.  I just find info useful stuff to store away for later.
Thanks,
Cathy


----- Original Message -----
From: "Steven Davidoff" <sdavidof@optonline.net>
To: "Square Foot Gardening List" <sqft@listbot.com>
Sent: Wednesday, April 05, 2000 2:50 PM
Subject: Re: Strawberries, birds and snakes


> Square Foot Gardening List - http://www.flinet.com/~gallus/sqft.html
>
> Hi Cathy,
>
> M good friend Sally up in the Catskills always said that if you smell
> CUCUMBERS (and you're not growing any where you smell them) then you
> should go back the way you came and go inside. She said that a lot of
> pit vipers, which are the class of snakes that copperheads belong too,
> do give off a scent that smells just like cucumbers. Though I have never
> had the chance to encounter a copperhead or other poisonous snake other
> than the little massasagua, I have no reason to doubt her.
>
> There's another saying about the coloration of snakes that's well worth
remembering:
>
> RED next to BLACK is a friend of Jack
> RED next to YELLOW will kill a fellow.
>
> I won't be staying long enough around a red, black, and yellow snake to
> verify what color is next to which color.......I'll be long gone with a
> trail of flames coming up from the ground where my feet just were, LOL!
>
> You should contact ENCON or the DEC to find out if they have
> recommendations for you as to how to prevent encounters with snakes.
> There's not much you can do to "relocate" them as most are protected in
> the wild. But don't worry about it, they're just as afraid of you as you
> are them and they will go slither off and not bother you.
>
> Trudi
>
> PS.........don't disturb any old fallen trees, or move piles of large
> rocks as these are favorite places for snakes to make their dens.
>
>
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