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  • From: list@ginda.us
  • To: North American Fruit Explorers <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [NAFEX] RE: Orchard Dogs
  • Date: Thu, 5 Feb 2004 01:04:19 -0500


On Feb 5, 2004, at 2:36 AM, Rick Valley wrote:


Any opinions regarding snakes? How about providing suitable
overwintering structures? I think Corn snakes, Rat snakes and Blue
Racers are pretty cool. I'll take a pass on pit vipers, though.

It's pretty tacky looking, but snakes love black plastic. The only thing
better is black plastic over a compost heap.
For overwintering? Dry stone walls, and trenches filled with woody debris.
Here in W. Oregon the top two snakes to have would be gopher snakes and
rubber boas; the garter snakes and little sharp-tailed snakes eat slugs, so
they're good garden snakes.

-Rick

Alas, my cat likes to kill snakes. Any suggestions to help out the snakes? She also kills a lot of chipmunks, and scares the birds away from my berries, so I'd like to let her keep roaming the garden.

Ginda





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