What did you do in the garden today?

[Iluveggers]

Yes! Finally someone bringing this up! For some reason it bothers me when I'm reading a snake book (for example) and it says, 'These snakes are poisonous.' I actually find hognoses really interesting (I'm hoping to get one as a pet soon) with their little upturned snouts and their rear-fang venom. Their morphs are also really cool, especially lavender!

Although I'm pretty much watching YouTube videos about them all day, I would honestly love to read about hognose snakes from you, so I'm all ears!

Well, my dog did kill and eat one, and I am assuming it wasn’t poisonous because the dog didn’t get sick…sometimes he’s a little too good about protecting the yard…

 

[WthrLady]

Mulberries are ripening! Purple chicken poo season!

 

[Chicken poppy]

Yes! Finally someone bringing this up! For some reason it bothers me when I'm reading a snake book (for example) and it says, 'These snakes are poisonous.' I actually find hognoses really interesting (I'm hoping to get one as a pet soon) with their little upturned snouts and their rear-fang venom. Their morphs are also really cool, especially lavender!

Although I'm pretty much watching YouTube videos about them all day, I would honestly love to read about hognose snakes from you, so I'm all ears!

Oh my gosh, yes! No one seems interested in those little cuties, and i just love them!

Since you already know about the rear venom, you probably know about all this already, but im just going to say it all because even someone else might like to read it aswell.

Hognose snakes are classified as “venomous, not really dangerous to humans”
when i first read that, i was quite confused. Venomous but not dangerous? How the heck can the bite be venomous but then be often safe to be held by humans?

So, Hognose snakes have (like you said) rear venom, which means to even get effected by the hognose bite you would actually have to have your hand in the back of its mouth and let it gnaw on you for several minutes.
Also, usually, they do not cause significant symptoms in humans. (Unless of course, you have a severe allergic reaction to the bite, then of course, it would be very amplified.)

And, they don’t really bite much. Think of it like this: Your a predator, and are maybe passing by, why would it bite you first? Thats basically like a chicken, seeing a hawk on the ground, going over and attacking it and pecking it, then they get scooped up and there they go to their demise.

They would usually run off first, and then, (i find this so cool!) they play dead! Well, they aren’t to great at it to be honest. They do some twitching for a while, and if you try flipping them back up, they roll right back over.

However, they are pretty good for the fact they have little musky scent glands, often called Bulb tails. They also stick their little tongue out.

For anyone curious to why they have the venom in the back, they like to burrow and live underground, and love eating toads and frogs! Often times they will puff up, making it hard to swallow. But that venom is enough to paralyze them and deflate them, making them much easier to digest. *It will not paralyze a human, don’t worry.*

And, just because a snake is labeled venomous, it doesn’t mean its always super dangerous. Most of the time it is, but like a hognose, its venom is very mild even if it manages to bite you.


For the morphs, my favorites are Lavender, Pink pastel, and Evans hypo.

For a ball python, i just LOVE banana! Its so, so cute!

 

[Chicken poppy]

Oh my gosh, yes! No one seems interested in those little cuties, and i just love them!

Since you already know about the rear venom, you probably know about all this already, but im just going to say it all because even someone else might like to read it aswell.

Hognose snakes are classified as “venomous, not really dangerous to humans”
when i first read that, i was quite confused. Venomous but not dangerous? How the heck can the bite be venomous but then be often safe to be held by humans?

So, Hognose snakes have (like you said) rear venom, which means to even get effected by the hognose bite you would actually have to have your hand in the back of its mouth and let it gnaw on you for several minutes.
Also, usually, they do not cause significant symptoms in humans. (Unless of course, you have a severe allergic reaction to the bite, then of course, it would be very amplified.)

And, they don’t really bite much. Think of it like this: Your a predator, and are maybe passing by, why would it bite you first? Thats basically like a chicken, seeing a hawk on the ground, going over and attacking it and pecking it, then they get scooped up and there they go to their demise.

They would usually run off first, and then, (i find this so cool!) they play dead! Well, they aren’t to great at it to be honest. They do some twitching for a while, and if you try flipping them back up, they roll right back over.

However, they are pretty good for the fact they have little musky scent glands, often called Bulb tails. They also stick their little tongue out.

For anyone curious to why they have the venom in the back, they like to burrow and live underground, and love eating toads and frogs! Often times they will puff up, making it hard to swallow. But that venom is enough to paralyze them and deflate them, making them much easier to digest. *It will not paralyze a human, don’t worry.*

And, just because a snake is labeled venomous, it doesn’t mean its always super dangerous. Most of the time it is, but like a hognose, its venom is very mild even if it manages to bite you.


For the morphs, my favorites are Lavender, Pink pastel, and Evans hypo.

For a ball python, i just LOVE banana! Its so, so cute!

Oh, and along with their cute little snout, they puff up when they get disturbed.

Its like a broody hen, they try to be all mean and scary but are honestly, so cute.

 

[Chicken poppy]

Well, my dog did kill and eat one, and I am assuming it wasn’t poisonous because the dog didn’t get sick…sometimes he’s a little too good about protecting the yard…

They are not poisonous.

 

[SheaLoner]

We’ve grown radishes -several varieties. But, at best, we like them sort of. So, a few years ago we tried small, white Japanese turnips as an alternate to the radishes (small, crisp, quick to grow). We really liked them! We then tried regular purple top turnips, but we didn’t love them as much -good, but the white ones we preferred. So, last year we tried Rutabaga - because, it was new to us and it’s fun to say “rutabaga”. We really liked those!! Turns out rutabaga are related to turnips and brassicas. This year I have 6 varieties of rutabaga to grow! Lol.

Rutabagas are excellent! I tell people it tastes like a potato mixed with cabage. As for Radishes , I don't care for the taste, but the seed pods? Those are deliscious! Its worth planting some and just letting them go to have a bunch of those to snack on. Looks like a 2 pea pod that is just a little spicy.

 

[Duckpip]

Oh my gosh, yes! No one seems interested in those little cuties, and i just love them!

Since you already know about the rear venom, you probably know about all this already, but im just going to say it all because even someone else might like to read it aswell.

Hognose snakes are classified as “venomous, not really dangerous to humans”
when i first read that, i was quite confused. Venomous but not dangerous? How the heck can the bite be venomous but then be often safe to be held by humans?

So, Hognose snakes have (like you said) rear venom, which means to even get effected by the hognose bite you would actually have to have your hand in the back of its mouth and let it gnaw on you for several minutes.
Also, usually, they do not cause significant symptoms in humans. (Unless of course, you have a severe allergic reaction to the bite, then of course, it would be very amplified.)

And, they don’t really bite much. Think of it like this: Your a predator, and are maybe passing by, why would it bite you first? Thats basically like a chicken, seeing a hawk on the ground, going over and attacking it and pecking it, then they get scooped up and there they go to their demise.

They would usually run off first, and then, (i find this so cool!) they play dead! Well, they aren’t to great at it to be honest. They do some twitching for a while, and if you try flipping them back up, they roll right back over.

However, they are pretty good for the fact they have little musky scent glands, often called Bulb tails. They also stick their little tongue out.

For anyone curious to why they have the venom in the back, they like to burrow and live underground, and love eating toads and frogs! Often times they will puff up, making it hard to swallow. But that venom is enough to paralyze them and deflate them, making them much easier to digest. *It will not paralyze a human, don’t worry.*

And, just because a snake is labeled venomous, it doesn’t mean its always super dangerous. Most of the time it is, but like a hognose, its venom is very mild even if it manages to bite you.


For the morphs, my favorites are Lavender, Pink pastel, and Evans hypo.

For a ball python, i just LOVE banana! Its so, so cute!

The pictures that you see of the hognoses playing dead- they're SO cute! And I agree, banana ball pythons are just amazing, and piebald bananas are just GOREGOUS!

I also find the bluff strikes that hognose snakes do hilarious, and the way they hiss and try to look like a cobra while all they are is a cute little noodle.

I love the detail in your reply, glad to know there's another hognose lover here!

 

[ChicksnMore]

It could be....Have you tried a shade cloth perhaps to block the hottest part of the day? My plants, with the exception of ONE, all look big and luscious. I've been watering them at dawn every 2-3 days. They are very green, no mildew or anything like that....And I have pulled about 6-8 zucchini off already. The one I harvested yesterday was bigger than my forearm! So I know they are capable of producing. I can only determine that they've dialed back on the female flowers because of the heat.

I tried growing them under the shade of a tree but not a shade cloth. The tree shade was too deep I think. When I lived up north I thought zucchini was the easiest plant in the world to grow...now I can't get decent squash or tomatoes...lol.

Yes! Finally someone bringing this up! For some reason it bothers me when I'm reading a snake book (for example) and it says, 'These snakes are poisonous.' I actually find hognoses really interesting (I'm hoping to get one as a pet soon) with their little upturned snouts and their rear-fang venom. Their morphs are also really cool, especially lavender!

Although I'm pretty much watching YouTube videos about them all day, I would honestly love to read about hognose snakes from you, so I'm all ears!

Oh my gosh, yes! No one seems interested in those little cuties, and i just love them!

Since you already know about the rear venom, you probably know about all this already, but im just going to say it all because even someone else might like to read it aswell.

Hognose snakes are classified as “venomous, not really dangerous to humans”
when i first read that, i was quite confused. Venomous but not dangerous? How the heck can the bite be venomous but then be often safe to be held by humans?

So, Hognose snakes have (like you said) rear venom, which means to even get effected by the hognose bite you would actually have to have your hand in the back of its mouth and let it gnaw on you for several minutes.
Also, usually, they do not cause significant symptoms in humans. (Unless of course, you have a severe allergic reaction to the bite, then of course, it would be very amplified.)

And, they don’t really bite much. Think of it like this: Your a predator, and are maybe passing by, why would it bite you first? Thats basically like a chicken, seeing a hawk on the ground, going over and attacking it and pecking it, then they get scooped up and there they go to their demise.

They would usually run off first, and then, (i find this so cool!) they play dead! Well, they aren’t to great at it to be honest. They do some twitching for a while, and if you try flipping them back up, they roll right back over.

However, they are pretty good for the fact they have little musky scent glands, often called Bulb tails. They also stick their little tongue out.

For anyone curious to why they have the venom in the back, they like to burrow and live underground, and love eating toads and frogs! Often times they will puff up, making it hard to swallow. But that venom is enough to paralyze them and deflate them, making them much easier to digest. *It will not paralyze a human, don’t worry.*

And, just because a snake is labeled venomous, it doesn’t mean its always super dangerous. Most of the time it is, but like a hognose, its venom is very mild even if it manages to bite you.


For the morphs, my favorites are Lavender, Pink pastel, and Evans hypo.

For a ball python, i just LOVE banana! Its so, so cute!

I enjoyed the snake info! Thought I'd share a pic of a thread snake I rescued from the cat the other night. First time I saw one of these I thought it was a nightcrawler!

 

[TJAnonymous]

Dinner tonight was inspired by my garden haul....

Andouille sausage, ham, potatoes, onions, green beans, broccoli, and cheese.

 

[Killy]

Have had a rough go this year, I have restarted my garden 3 x due to my fine feather friends. So today I watered, and fed plants with fish emulsion. I’ve lost 2 ripe tomatoes so far due to uninvited bunny! Not sure what to do. He’s not afraid of my plastic owl!