What's in the plot or have I lost it?
Sooooooooooo, I have been gardening daily recently trying to clear a plot of land roughly 20 metres by 3 metres which is on the left side of my garden.
My visage is for it to be a veg plot but that dream is becoming more unreal as I dig deeper and discover how poor the soil quality is and how riddle with tree roots it is.
I don't think I can rival JDH's finds from his clearance of the hedge but here is what I have found to date:
Glass (loads and loads of shattered sheets)
Broken and unbroken archaic milk bottles (I will restore 2 to their former glory)
An assortment of metal handles
Sheets of metal
A metal rod 3cm thick and 2m long
A longer priece of metal about 3m long.
A white metal jug
Bones from a deseased animal (cat maybe from the size of the vertebrae)
Rusted gardening fork
Rusted gardening trowel
One mouldy gardening glove
Curtain rings
Corugated material
Loads of pottery
Enough bricks to build a bbq!
3 hibernating frogs (oops, I relocated them to a new pile)
Rusted metal box
And that's from digging up one half. The rest is very difficult as there are so may roots winding around as the plants I have cut down have big roots plus there is a tree stump as well.
I can't put my spade in the ground without hearing 'clang' as there are sooooo many rocks and bits of glass. It will take a lot more labour to make anything worthy of the plot. So it will be many more hours of toil while Nathanael sleeps at lunchtime!
I'm still waiting to dig up a body but I might have to go a bit deeper for that!
posted by nuttynurse @ 2/05/2008
4 Comments:
What.....a rats body? ! :) Just think of the excellent work out it is for your body. I had one today when I took Daniel to Funder Zone....we must visit it if you come at half term.
Yeah I must look up where to stay. I'm gonna do it right now...........
p.s bones way to big to be a ratty!
You could extend the grass that way and put veg plot on other side? Sounds awful - maybe it was a building plot before.
We found a few fox skeletons when we moved here first - we still see the foxes in the garden when they are alive, but I think they go somewhere quieter to die!
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