Need a snake repellent

[lepetitmartien]

Live and let live, it looks after rodents, insects (and frogs and birds), no venom, and a beauty.

[plumania]

I see everybody is in snake's favor here !:

---------- Post added at 10:43 PM ---------- Previous post was at 10:34 PM ----------

Originally Posted by Daethen

Sorry, but I think she is cute.

Yeah, agree ....It did make me feel sad when he/she did not move for a while. I kept coming back to check.
But I would prefer this 'cute' snake to stay away from my pots. I almost had a heart attack...... primitive reflex.

[Bud]

The snake chose your space for its home. It is harmless. Consider yourself lucky. Subrosa is right, I would use a long stick to vibrate the ground and the grass you walk on....they tend to slither away when they sense those vibrations from the ground....I learned that from Boy Scout camping.
They also stay away if you have a dog or a cat...they can smell them.

[rcb]

Thanks for the comments everyone.

[dounoharm]

keep a pot beside the door, and bang on it loudly when entering the greenhouse....they don't like noise....mothballs do work for skunks I know but I don't know about them repelling snakes....I have had several brave kitty snake killers....any cat that will kill a snake is welcome in my house! when we lived in florida, we had a little yellow stray that took to living with us, she would bring a dead snake to us occasionally, she caught several eastern diamondbacks and a coral snake....I don't care for snakes either! go adopt a dozen kitties! good luck!

[Subrosa]

Originally Posted by dounoharm

keep a pot beside the door, and bang on it loudly when entering the greenhouse....they don't like noise....mothballs do work for skunks I know but I don't know about them repelling snakes....I have had several brave kitty snake killers....any cat that will kill a snake is welcome in my house! when we lived in florida, we had a little yellow stray that took to living with us, she would bring a dead snake to us occasionally, she caught several eastern diamondbacks and a coral snake....I don't care for snakes either! go adopt a dozen kitties! good luck!

Unless you bang the pot on the ground the snake won't notice. One defining characteristic of snakes is that they have no ears, external or internal. They're sensitive to vibrations coming through the ground, but vibrations coming through the air are lost on them.

[Orchid Whisperer]

That's a ring-necked snake. They eat small things, like spiders and insect larvae, earthworms, etc. It is harmless except to the small critters it eats.

I vote for keeping it around / coexisting; learn to enjoy it, it is a beautiful little snake! I am actually a bit jealous. If that can't work for you, maybe a friend can catch it and remove it to a woods somewhere?

[rcb]

Originally Posted by Subrosa

Unless you bang the pot on the ground the snake won't notice. One defining characteristic of snakes is that they have no ears, external or internal. They're sensitive to vibrations coming through the ground, but vibrations coming through the air are lost on them.

You would think the vibrations from dragging an 8 gallon sprayer around would send it scurrying, it doesn't.

Oh, and no greenhouse, my benches are just in the open yard.

Also, to be clear, the snake photo posted is not the type of snake I have here. We have the common black racers.

I'm going to try mothballs, at least I will feel like I'm doing something.

[Sharry]

Plumania: A fellow horticulturist would love to have your cute little ring neck snakes it eats slug and other bugs.

If some one was really over run and freaked out, maye be a ferret would do the trick.

[isurus79]

Mothballs do work, however THEY STINK!!!! I'll take a dozen snakes over mothballs any day! lol