The Perils of Square Foot Gardening!

I cannot liken the Square foot garden to the garden of eden, but I did find something in there that was in the garden of eden - yes - a snake!


I moved a bit of wood to take up the netting to put in some potting soil to the side holes - when all of a sudden I saw a snake right in front of me!
I was trying to figure out if it was poisonous or not. I did not see any diamonds on the back. It stayed where it was and did not move - which was odd I thought. 


I did not know what to do with it. Stacy called Jason down and he was used to this sort of thing. He suggested getting a machete and cutting the head off. I was in favour of just crushing the head with the large two by four plank we had near by. We tried that - but it still wriggled. I took the machete and cut the head off while Jason held down the head with the wood. 


It was pretty gross. The head wriggled around for ages. The rest of the body would tense up when touched. Even after 5 mins or more the snake was still moving. It turns out that he was trapped in the net and could not escape. We had a hard time getting it out of the net - and had to cut the netting. 

Here is the snake head wriggling. Not for the squeamish!

You may think that Solomon was crying because he was scared. Not quite - he was crying because Stacy would not let him come over....

We let him eventually to pose for a photo that Stacy thought he may want to see when he is older...

We ended up putting the remains in a plastic bag and putting it in the trash. Even at this point the beheaded snake felt like it was trying to get out of my hands...




And you thought square foot gardening was free from dangers! Think again!