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Need help getting rid of snakes in yard

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flatlander_99

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we have an old foundation in our yard that was burried instead of being dug up by the previous owners. garter snakes have made this their home & we believe we have hundreds of snakes down there. the gophers also moved in for a while this summer when it got really dry & there is now about 30 holes within about 500 sq ft. the snakes then took over again & the gophers are gone. how the heck do we go about getting rid of the snakes?! we thought about anhydrous but i don't know if it will work with all the holes & then we also won't have grass for 2 years... we have tried sprays & all the cr*p on the market these days but nothing seems to work. the best thing we have found is a shovel & that just gets the ones that happen to be on top of the ground. its the time of year they shed their skin & we have found some very large skins so we know there are a few females still underground & those are the ones we need to eliminate.:devil:
HELP!!! :eek::eek::eek::eek:
 
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Sounds like it's time for a bonfire or some explosives ;)

If it doesn't work, at least it'll be fun.
 
gopher blaster? The propane torch thing you stick in the holes, fill it with propane and strike it off and BOOM!
 
Try a set of tighty-whitey underwear, a bottle of Jack Daniels, and a sledge hammer. Not sure how it will work, but it'll be really funny for your neighbors to watch.
 
1. Buy a pig - the pig will eat the snakes - once snakes are gone and the pig is fat - you can eat the pig.

2. Wait till winter. MN gets cold, wait till it is -10 then run your garden hose over there and start filling the holes full of water. Make sure you can get down deep enough to where the den is. Fill the den full of water. Water expands when frozen. This will freeze the snakes and when the ice shifts, it will break them up. This works great.
 
Sidehiller said:
Try www.getridofthings.com and follow the prompts to snakes.
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this is what i found there:
make sure that shrubs, bushes, and thick gardens are kept away from your home - don't have ANYTHING next to our house.
Mowing your lawn will help you get rid of snakes - this area is in the middle of the MOWED lawn.
Piles of wood, compost heaps, and mulch should be kept a safe distance from your home if you’re getting rid of snakes - don't have anything like this near our house.
Getting rid of snakes means getting rid of small rodents - they have eaten all the gophers & we live in the gopher state for cripes sake!
If you want to get rid of garter snakes, then keeping insects like crickets, grasshoppers, and other small bugs out of your yard is a good idea - like they even said "Lord knows how to get rid of these things."

we have also tried the snake repellent that they show on that site but it didn't work.
thought about the propane but there are so many holes that i don't think it would work.
concrete i don't think so - its in the middle of the lawn.
the last thing we can think of is to dig up the old fountation to get rid of their home. sorry to be so negative but we have put up the white flag...
 
Skogen said:
wait till it is -10 then run your garden hose over there and start filling the holes full of water. Make sure you can get down deep enough to where the den is. Fill the den full of water. Water expands when frozen. This will freeze the snakes and when the ice shifts, it will break them up. This works great.
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have you seriously tried this?! sounds like it would work but i am afraid the foundation goes lower than the frost line... will have to try it in a couple months though!

btw - we raise hogs so that doesn't work...
 
I don't know how people do it, but I've been to some houses where the yard is literally crawling with snakes. There is nothing that I hate more than a snake, so I'd move in a heartbeat. Obviously that doesn't help your situation though...

Is it something that you could spend a sunny afternoon with a shovel and a hoe and get rid of a whole bunch of them? My parents had a wood pile next to a rock pile when I was a kid. I didn't hate snakes nearly as much back then, so we took piece by piece, rock by rock off of there one weekend and got rid of every single one of those bastages. I bet there was 50 of them in that small pile. Haven't seen one since. This was about 20 years ago.
 
LN2 that will fix them quick then you can throw them in the air and let them hit concrete! Oh what fun!
 
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