I have snakes in my yard, which is fine because I love snakes. Last year I had a this teeny teeny little baby snake.. wasn't any bigger than a pencil! I also have Sam & Samantha, a pair of bigger garter snakes (yes, one is female, one is male) that keep the mouse population down (due to the bird seed, I had a bad mousy problem a few years ago). One of them (I think Sam) nests in my window well next to my bedroom.. drives the cats INSANE when he slithers out of his hole & crawls up the window well to the surface to hunt mousies. They also help keep the grasshopper problem down. My neighbor 3 houses to my left lets her 3 cats out all the time, so they keep the mouse/bird population under control, much to my dismay (especially when I have 6 bird feeders out!!). I've talked until I'm blue in the face about keeping her cats inside, but "it's too hard to keep them inside". Uh, lady, you have 3 cats. I have MANY more than that & NONE of mine go outside!
This Sunday I'm definitely going to be working on my DL bed getting it prepped. Never seen/heard of this rot. Do you not get it just from snow? I gotta give EVERYTHING a major haircut and see how much grass has encroached on the DL bed. I'm getting in more DLs soon, so I gotta make sure that they have a home nice & ready for them!
