Fun fact, there's no snakes where I live now. Garters rarely go above 7-8,000 feet above sea level and rattlers live even lower. Move high into the mountains if you don't want snakes around.
I love snakes, even the rattlers I shoot, eat and get rid of where hazardous to livestockor humans. Bull snakes eat rattlesnakes, I saved quite a few Garter snakes over the years relocating them to my garden. Not a grasshopper to be found eating my plants while everyone else's gardens are getting raided by them. I throw spiders outside only killing Black Widows.
The ones I don't understand is ticks, leeches and mosquitoes. Can anyone explain how these blood suckers help any ecosystem? I've built bat houses to combat mosquitoes and I turn into a little old lady each spring building my army of hummingbirds to combat the flies. I'm a big tattooed viking looking guy, had many neighbors over the years give funny looks while I'm gardening. I knew I was getting better when the church ladies started coming around swapping heirloom plants and gardening tips with me.
Kind of my goal at some point, I don't know anything about social media and always forget to record anything I'm doing. I could probably make some money at it if I YouTube my endeavors. I'm starting over after a divorce but when I get a chunk of dirt again I'll be up to my old tricks in no time.
Someone posted that, I'm going to try all the ones zone 3 at this altitude come spring. People like me would crack up if I had a show, one minute I'm building a yurt, moving a cabin, setting up an aquaponics system in my living room, making a forge to melt copper... one time I decided to make soap but couldn't get lye so I used Draino to make sodium hydroxide instead. It was a little more volatile than I anticipated, I'm hollering and running around with everyone laughing. There's still a huge chemical burn on that picnic table. The soap actually turned out okay.
My show would be so much more entertaining than Homestead Rescue. Even after giving up drinking I'm still up for a ridiculous experiment or something dangerous. My ex couldn't handle it, she was more of a sofa and TV person who didn't like me always in the yard or garage tinkering.
I agree! All God's Creatures Great & Small step special to me, except snakes...why did it have to be snakes? 😸
Fun fact, there's no snakes where I live now. Garters rarely go above 7-8,000 feet above sea level and rattlers live even lower. Move high into the mountains if you don't want snakes around.
Oh great...we live on the Coast! Kek!
I love snakes, even the rattlers I shoot, eat and get rid of where hazardous to livestockor humans. Bull snakes eat rattlesnakes, I saved quite a few Garter snakes over the years relocating them to my garden. Not a grasshopper to be found eating my plants while everyone else's gardens are getting raided by them. I throw spiders outside only killing Black Widows.
The ones I don't understand is ticks, leeches and mosquitoes. Can anyone explain how these blood suckers help any ecosystem? I've built bat houses to combat mosquitoes and I turn into a little old lady each spring building my army of hummingbirds to combat the flies. I'm a big tattooed viking looking guy, had many neighbors over the years give funny looks while I'm gardening. I knew I was getting better when the church ladies started coming around swapping heirloom plants and gardening tips with me.
Only female mosquitoes suck blood so they can reproduce. The males are pollinators.
Typical... sounds like a few relationships I've had. Didn't know about the males pollinating.
You sound amazing! I never kill anything and would only if it was trying to kill me. You should write a Gardening blog! 👨🌾
Kind of my goal at some point, I don't know anything about social media and always forget to record anything I'm doing. I could probably make some money at it if I YouTube my endeavors. I'm starting over after a divorce but when I get a chunk of dirt again I'll be up to my old tricks in no time.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DCtKetOBlw4
Someone posted that, I'm going to try all the ones zone 3 at this altitude come spring. People like me would crack up if I had a show, one minute I'm building a yurt, moving a cabin, setting up an aquaponics system in my living room, making a forge to melt copper... one time I decided to make soap but couldn't get lye so I used Draino to make sodium hydroxide instead. It was a little more volatile than I anticipated, I'm hollering and running around with everyone laughing. There's still a huge chemical burn on that picnic table. The soap actually turned out okay.
My show would be so much more entertaining than Homestead Rescue. Even after giving up drinking I'm still up for a ridiculous experiment or something dangerous. My ex couldn't handle it, she was more of a sofa and TV person who didn't like me always in the yard or garage tinkering.
Omgoodness fren be careful!