how to deal with snakes in my garden?

Question

in a nutral way...so scared

Answer 1

DO NOT use mothballs or moth crystals. They are deadly poisonous and if you have pets, birds, squirrels or children YOU DO NOT WANT TO POISON THEM.

The suggestion about the owl could work if you remember to move it every couple days. Eventually the snakes would get the message and vacate.

Unless they are poisonous, such as rattlers or coral snakes, I would leave them alone. They eat moles and other small rodents and really are more afraid of you than you are of them.

Black snakes are not poisonous and will even get to know you. I had one for a few years in our yard and it would move away from me, but only a few feet, then it would rear its head up and watch as I went about my gardening. It drank at my faucet when it dripped while I watered the yard and I actually began to watch for it. Then I came home from work one day to the news that our local hawk had caught it. My husband tried to chase the hawk but was too late.

If you have poisonous snakes, understand that they are usually just passing through your yard on the way to another place. If they are nesting, call your local animal control. They can probably give you the name of someone who specializes in pest removal. It will cost, but safety is well worth it.

My own thought is: keep the snakes, less problem with pests; make noise as you go to the garden to alert the snakes so they move; don't try to pick them up because any frightened snake will bite, and take time to watch them and get to know them. You might find them interesting.

Answer 2

Buy one of those plastic owls and keep it in the garden. You'll have to move it once in awhile but the snakes will stay away because they'll think it's real and don't want to be supper for the owl.

Answer 3

being a snake owner, the way to repel snakes when they squeeze (and they are a large snake) is to pour rubbing alcohol or real liquor alcohol on them. it repels them and it won't hurt anything. you can put it on a cloth or on the wood around your garden...whatever will soak it in. try it and see. otherwise, try catching them and move them to a new area. however, if you have a lot of snakes, you may have a den. you'll know if in the spring, you have A LOT OF SNAKES in one area.

Answer 4

My uncle uses brass cranes. The brass cranes heat up in the sun and the snakes can see the heat signature and shape of the cranes and it scares them off because they are crane food!

Answer 5

the snake eats the rodents that eats the bugs that eats your plants that you want you eat. you could just flip it out of the way and keep doing what you was doing before you saw it.... the ball thing works

Answer 6

Be careful, first.
Are they doing any damage if not let them be.
Are they a hazard to your pets or kids.
then call an exterminator to safely remove them.
But if there is no threat to your or the family let them remain as a natural addition to your landscape.

Answer 7

What kind of snakes? If they are just grass snakes I would just let them be.

Answer 8

Moth balls or moth ball crystals will keep them away. They don't like the smell (or taste in the snakes case since they smell with their tongues).

Answer 9

snakes are good things (as long as they're not poisonous). I've got a black racer in mine. they eat mice, rats, and keep birds away (that eat veggies).
you might try a fine mesh screen on your fence.

Answer 10

I've been told that you can put out mothballs. Snakes hate them.