Grow Your Own Magazine

Lol! OH just had a scare....apparently there was a large snake basking in our big black plastic compost bin! It was 'THIS' big and got in and out of the bin by squeezing thru the vent slots.

I presume it was a grass snake as they like stuff like compost bins and we're near a (small) river.




ps

__________________
Manda.

"Wouldn't it be nice
For maybe an hour
To not have a care."

And you will get the pic SBP. You always do. Let's see it.

__________________

From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs.

I'd of Adder fright too!

Someone help me...

__________________
A simple dude trying to grow veg.

http://haywayne.blogspot.com/ - Tuscany update - 27th September

http://tickers.baby-gaga.com/p/dev036pr___.png

Lol! Not sure this time Alice, I only spotted the 'last' (same?) grass snake cos the sparrows set up a squawking round it.

It sounds like this is a mummy snake (it was looong, and apparently females are longer than the males), it could have been laying eggs in the compost heap - so we've stopped using it, better for the snake and us!

__________________
Manda.

"Wouldn't it be nice
For maybe an hour
To not have a care."

We get grass snakes round here up to 5 ft long! My son in law sent me a text message last week to say he'd had an adder in his garden and it was plain black (so NOT an adder then!) I asked him to check on google images if it was a grass snake but eventually he came up with a match -slow worm. Until the previous week I'd say they were rare round here but a local naturalist found one about half a mile from where SIL lives - with the river in between.
PS slow worms are a sort of legless lizard, not technically a snake.

__________________
Earth laughs in flowers. Ralph Waldo Emerson

www.vegheaven.blogspot.com

Updated September 29th - Bean drying.