While planting my asparagus bed the other day, I uncovered a couple of rough earth snakes. This was the third or fourth time that I have found these insect and worm eating snakes in my garden. These two were smaller, but I have seen them get as long as one foot.
I like having the snakes in the garden, but I move them over to the brush pile so that I don’t accidentally stab them with a digging fork.
The snake tried to hide inside of my glove.
Then it tried to hide under a leaf.
Once I got a few pictures I let them go in my brush pile.