Autumn in the garden is a time of cleaning up and tucking in, of making everything nice and neat and cozy until the spring. If you have a garden demanding much of your love and labor, spend your raking hours imagining the treasures you might unearth...
On her lovely journal, A Way To Garden, Margaret Roach recently asked her readers, "Any treasures unearthed in your fall cleanup so far-maybe those sunglasses or a trowel you lost just surfaced in the compost heap?" The answers are charming (plastic easter eggs, ancient golf balls), as are the hopes that lost items will soon be found (a beloved bracelet!).
Have you ever found any precious, hilarious, or mysterious treasures in your garden? What did you do with them? And by the way, doing a search for "found while digging in the garden" turns up some fascinating results- it seems to be the way almost everything has ever been found!
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Comments (9)
I found a child's homemade bracelet with plastic star-shaped beads. Also a red Bic lighter.
In our DC rowhouse dirt, we found two glass milk bottles from long-closed dairies--one in DC, the other just over the border in Chevy Chase, MD. My research indicated the dairies closed in the 1940s!
@FlappyMcGee Cool! If they're intact you should display them in your home!
I found a hammer with a half-rotted handle and rusty head. it was on top of a fence covered in vines. I assume it was lost while the fence was being built.
My grandfather found a set of false teeth in his garden one year. Needless to say, he was a little freaked out!
I found a ninja action figure, about 2 inches in height. It cleaned it and it's now sitting on my bookshelf beside Snoopy wearing a kimono.
I found Snoopy on the steps of the common building in undergrad with a note that asked someone to please take care of him.
I found a hatch in my yard with the original 1938 bathroom tile, some children's toys, and a lot of concrete chunks. And then another time I found small animal bones. That was disturbing!
interesting finds, all, especially the teeth!
we found:
a large piece of a porcelain coffee cup
a heavy metal decorative handle
a small glass prism (old lamp type)
@ curiouslycuriousgeorgette:
So cute! Snoopy has a good home now.
When we bought our house we dug what we thought were stepping stones that had been grown over with grass...they turned out to be sink cutouts from pieces of granite. Odd.
The only other 'exciting' thing I've found in my backyard is a bunch of rotting apples that some enterprising squirrel forgot about. :)