"RonB" wrote in message
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We bought a large bag of Miracle Grow garden soil mix and a couple
bags to topsoil to mix for planting some trees. I dumped all together
in a garden cart this morning and started mixing some in some of the
native soil and found a 3-4 foot long bull snake looking back at me.

My wife called the HD where we bought them (soil and snake) and the
manager was very straight forward. He had been seeing quite a few
"critters" coming in on soil and mulch pallets during the past year or
so. These included snakes, scorpions and at least one tarantula.
This was his first report of a snake inside of a bag. He apologized
and said he would pass it on to the supplier. He also said he was
pretty sure the snake was in the Miracle Grow because the topsoil was
probably too packed and the garden soil contained some nutrients and
organic material that would sustain the snake.

Then I ran across this:

http://blogs.riverfronttimes.com/dai...g_soil_bag.php

Yikes! Be careful out there!!!

RonB

That's a nasty one. I still have a couple bags of top soil I bought a year
ago at Ace Hwd. Any thing in there would be dead by now. ww