The Wall Of Shame!! or..Hey! We Ain't Perfect!

[Chickie'sMomaInNH]

yikes! this is why i like my northern corner of the states! we don't have to worry about poisonous snakes as much over here. the occasional spider bite is really more of a worry and that is only if you react to them if they bother to bite instead of run. :/

this year i let some squash that volunteered keep growing in the far corner of my garlic/pepper patch. i'm regretting that now since the last few weeks they have taken over the entire bed and grown over the boards i was using to protect the area from my dh's mowing. all the squashes seem to be mixes and i'm trying to figure out what crossed with each. seems i have blonde acorn squashes (seems my summer squash pollinated everything), yellow and tender mini pumpkins that the skin seems more like a summer squash, my zucchini seem to have the right color but get fat at their ends like a straight neck summer squash. the only squash that looks like it is growing like it is supposed to is the waltham butternuts. and those are producing early! my poor peppers are struggling for light because these are now so thick!

 

[Southern Gardener]

love it, moxie!!! Martha and P. Allen would be SO proud of us!!!

 

[Just-Moxie]

Moxies have you picked up copperheads in the past?

Our first year to garden...2011..I planted green beans, a row of sweet potatoes and some other stuff. I was in that same garden spot, picking the first beans..reached down...moved over some leaves...and...and.. I almost picked up an adult copperhead. !!!!

Now, I was wearing light weight shoes, and nothing on my legs, no gloves. I backed away....s-l-o-w-l-y....ran back to the house and put on my steel toed leather hiking boots, leather gloves. Got my hooked stick and the big glass jar. I had to catch it, because if I scared it away before I identified it even......woe to me if it did strike! I am out here in the country on 1 acre....neighbors are not with in yelling distance.

So, after a chase and fight...I caught it...stuffed it in the jar...capped the jar and brought it to the computer to do some research. THAT...is only when I found out it is a copperhead. I have also caught black racers, rat snakes, a baby copperhead, and one I don't remember what it was. It was under the house, and had been sunning itself when I startled it by going out the back door.

So far, 3 years here, my snake count totals 9

 

[thistlebloom]

I'm impressed Moxie! I have killed rattlesnakes before, but never, NEVER! would have the nerve to put one in a jar and put it on my desk!
You get the garden bravery award for SURE!

 

[Just-Moxie]

I'm impressed Moxie! I have killed rattlesnakes before, but never, NEVER! would have the nerve to put one in a jar and put it on my desk!
You get the garden bravery award for SURE!

I had it live ....in the jar...on the kitchen table. It's where we have our laptops set up. Unfortunately....DH didn't like it that I had the snake on his spot

footnote; All venomous snakes...get the death sentence. I was reading up on copperheads...the anti-venom is actually almost worse than the venom itself.

 

[NwMtGardener]

Whoa. Just WHOA. You caught it alive?!? I think i would have gone with "kill first, investigate LATER" in fact, um, i HAVE gone with that strategy when it comes to snakes on rare occasion. queen of snake wrangling Moxie!!

 

[Just-Moxie]

Nah......not me. Ima chicken wrangler these days My policy on snakes is.....if it is non-venomous, and will eat mice...it can live. If it is a bad guy....i.e. can kill me first..then...
"Off with it's head!!"...

Now, back to our regular scheduled programming!

I am trying to grow strawberries. And some crab apple trees. I figure, what isn't edible for us human people, will make great chicken treats!! Which, translate in to great healthy eggs...and flavorful meat. Oh, they also get all leavin's and pickins' from the gardens. Some stuff seems to grow great....in certain areas...and totally craps out on other areas. How DOES that happen on one tiny acre?

Oh, the poison ivy and weeds are an excellent crop by the way

 

[Nyboy]

wow once I had a small snake in my kitchen. I was so upset I ate a handfull of valuim, then got the bright idea to call the bronx zoo looking for mongoose breeders. I wanted Kipling"s Rikki Tikki Tavi. Can't own mongooses in NY.

 

[majorcatfish]

hum wall of shame....lol
guess number one would be the plot that was turned this year for corn...
between being cold,birds and all the rain it never had a chance. we picked a whole 5 gallon bucket
but they made a great corn, avocado and feta cheese salad


but did replant some in the raised beds they are looking good along with more yellow beans


then there was the bean mix up.....
still have a good chuckle over that one.

 

[journey11]

Wow, Moxie!