Based on experience, you might want to rethink the babies thing. Several years ago I built a new house in upstate NY. While turning over a small garden I encountered a shovel full of earthworm sized baby snakes. They looked like nice garter snakes and I thought great, we will just leave them here for rodent control. I planted my grapes, blueberries and a couple of rows of rhubarb and since I was very pregnant at the time put down black plastic between the rows to cut down on weeding. The first year I saw Momma hanging around the rhubarb. She was a 4' rat snake and somewhat territorial. No sweat I thought, there is room for both of us in this garden. As we got moved in, the garden grew in size. The number of rat snakes increased and the babies were very healthy. I started going out into the garden accompanied by a bamboo rake to tap on the plastic so that I did not feel bodies squirming under my bare feet and I learned to look under rhubarb plants before pulling. Rat snakes are not venomous but they can give you a nasty bite. I sent pictures of some of my more social snakes to some of my business associates overseas and we started naming them after people who had provided us some of our more painful learning lessons. My Mother and my Sister who was in the middle of a miserable divorce came to visit and my Mother promptly named a snake after her soon to be EX. Everybody thought it was hilarious and unknown to us one of my sisters friends took out an ad in a local newspaper advertising that for $1 we would name a snake after their least favorite person and included our mailing address. For a while we had all this money coming in. To make a long story short, we had dinner and a movie on our snake naming money and I moved my rhubarb plants to a new relatively snake free location.