Patti ...
>>>I've tried everything to keep snakes from finding my garden so homely.
I just researched "brown snakes". OMG, they are as poisonous as the rattlesnakes found in my mountains !
The method I learned from a friend who has lived up here all of her life to deter snakes from my property is to use wood ashes from my wood stove around the perimeter of my property. My friend has four acres and I have only a quarter acre, but neither of us have found a rattlesnake on our properties in years. Yet we both have neighbors that have to deal with snake problems often during the dry months.
Yes, it is a hassle to walk the property and lay down the ashes, but having no snakes makes it worthwhile. I don't know if this would work for brown snakes.
Smiles,
Lyn
