RE: Gardening at night
- To: "'perennials@mallorn.com'" <perennials@mallorn.com>
- Subject: RE: Gardening at night
- From: "* S* <S*@lhs.org>
- Date: Wed, 8 Jul 1998 13:36:03 -0700
This is great! The worse thing we Oregonians would have to worry about
at night would be a large mosquito, or maybe the occasional worm-crazed
mole!
(Although, stepping on a 6" banana slug isn't fun......)
Sue P.
SPesznec@lhs.org Portland, Oregon
(USDA zone 8, Sunset zone 6)
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> From: moorman@teamzeon.com
> Sent: Wednesday, July 8, 1998 1:04 PM
> To: perennials@lhs.org
> Subject: Gardening at night
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> Betty Moorman@ZEON
> 07/08/98 04:04 PM
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> You all may think I'm an awful old worry wart but I think it's chancy
> to
> garden after dark. I have read that the pit vipers (which include
> copperheads and rattlesnakes, I believe) prefer to hunt after dark
> because
> the sensory devices in the pits on each side of their heads (hence the
> name
> 'pit vipers') can detect prey more easily than in the daytime.
> Something
> to do with the ambient temperature being cooler in the night and this
> makes
> it easier to find warm-blooded prey at night. I guess you could say
> if
> you're using a light to garden by that makes it possible to see where
> you're putting your hand but I wouldn't do it for anything.
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