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| Author: | produce guy [ Tue Mar 09, 2010 1:50 am ] |
| Post subject: | compost pile |
I'm sitting here trying to go to sleep and it's raining pretty good here in Austin,that's great because I turned my compost pile today and added some week old cow pooh about as big as a toilet seat.I chopped it up with a shovel and added a bag of oak leaves and some weeds from my yard.Also came across a 4-6 ft.snake not sure what kind but didn't see a rattle so thats good PS temp of my pile before turning was about 110 afterwards an a hour later it was 125F. 
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| Author: | CaptainCompostAL [ Tue Mar 09, 2010 6:37 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: compost pile |
Most snakes in gardens and compost piles are ok. They don't hang around long. Keep your compost aerated , moist, and very hot and they will go away. The same is true for ants in the compost pile. Happy Gardening! |
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| Author: | CHF3 [ Tue Mar 09, 2010 4:45 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: compost pile |
Don't let the captain fool you, if he finds a snake it is halved and composted right away 
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| Author: | CaptainCompostAL [ Wed Mar 10, 2010 6:37 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: compost pile |
That's funny! |
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| Author: | wormrancher [ Thu Mar 11, 2010 9:18 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: compost pile |
I find a good amount of snakes in my compost piles too--everything from little brown earth snakes to bigger 2-6 ft. snakes. I try to remind myself they are there for the purpose of keeping pests down. The only time I really have had the long term heebie jeebies was last fall--I was mulching the garden bed with old, moldy hay from an old bale. I had been carrying the flakes around and finally put them in a wheelbarrow. when I lifted the last bit of hay, there was a 4-5 foot long snake in there. AAAAAAGGGGGHHHHH!  I had been carrying that snake around in my arms, and didn't even know it. i'm still recovering .A friend of mine had graciously agreed to till my plot with his tiller. i forgot to mention I had put some fake snakes in the plot to "scare the rodents" away. I have never seen a good Baptist boy dance so well in my life as when that fake snake was tilled up into the air. 
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| Author: | CHF3 [ Thu Mar 11, 2010 6:56 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: compost pile |
wormrancher wrote: A friend of mine had graciously agreed to till my plot with his tiller. i forgot to mention I had put some fake snakes in the plot to "scare the rodents" away. I have never seen a good Baptist boy dance so well in my life as when that fake snake was tilled up into the air. LOL - thank you for that visual! My wife and I were on the neighborhood bike path last year when suddenly she went from mild mannered Frisco mom to X-treme off road mountain biker.... the rat snakes get pretty darn big and like to sun on the bike path in our neighborhood. I laughed at her but evidently God heard me laughing because a couple days later the neighborhood bobcat surprised me on the path and made me jump. |
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