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2013 edible gardening
On Tuesday, January 1, 2013 4:43:27 AM UTC-7, Farm1 wrote:
"songbird" wrote in message ... i hope everyone out there in r.g.e land has a great season -- even those folks down under who are having a nice summer right about now. Thanks for the kind thoughts but as for the 'nice' summer, I'm feeling a bit tender at the moment because of a number of factors............ Each morning, I go out kitted out in gardening gear after a shower and come in dripping at about noon and swearing to myself that I really won't shower before gardening again but each day, I get into autopilot and head for the shower first thing..... I really must buy a dependable brain..... Then yesterday, at dusk, I grab the compost bucket and head out to my big plastic compost drum and flip the lid back only to be confronted by a very large Eastern Brown Snake in the bin. I scream and back off quickly after throwing the compost bucket and contents skywards leaving an agitated snake wriggling madly in the bin under a partially open lid. I head inside feeling like at total wimp. Eastern Brown snakes are an edgy, nervy snake and highly venomous. According to my snake ID book they are 12 times more venomous than a cobra. I'ts hte sort of anske that is OK behind glass in a zoo where it looks singularly unimpressive but it's certainly not teh sort of snake one wants to meet up close and personal. During the day we'd been working in and around that compst bin as it sits between 2 apple trees and we were putting nets over the fruit trees as the cockatoos are starting to take fruit to get to the seeds. Himself had also been on his hands and knees weeding under one of the apple trees so he was also not happy when I told him about the snake because of 'what might have been'. Today I decided that I needed to face the fear so went back and had a look in the bin. No snake thankfully. I decided that I'd use my compost screw to aerate the bin and was prepared to drop all and run if I pulled up a snake. All went well - just lots of wriggling red compost worms. But otherwise, on the plus side in the garden, I finally have tomatoes just about ripe, there are zucchini on the bushes and it looks like we might get an excellent crop of apples and pears. I just hope that is the last sodding snake I see for the season. Ever again would be good, but that is way too much to hope for. Snakes kill mice, rats and various other rodents. Just avoid them...they won't stalk you are attack without provocation so I am told. We only have garter snakes here thank gawd for that. |
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