Kitchen Garden Forum

I think there's a compost fairy at work on our allotments. I've been scraping out the bottom of the 'done' heap, ready to turn the 'doing' heap over into the bay - as you do at this time of year if you can get a nephew to help you (ha ha).. anyway among the strange things I know I didn't put in the compost heap were ;-

a full set of plastic cutlery
an unopened tube of glue
a spookily dismembered Barbie doll
two cat food tins
what may be part of a bicycle

The rats might be responsible for the cat food tins but the other items baffle me. What have you lot found composting lately?

Dear Giulia, i have stopped believing in fairies so i haven't found anything strange in years.

Maybe i should start believing in them again, i hate to think i'm missing out on something.

I have a plastic mouse that I must have inherited with the garden some 15 years ago. It gets around a bit, several times turning up in the compost bin,also sometimes when I'm digging a piece of ground over it pops up, Ive found it by the side of raised beds and one year under an apple tree.
I could be partly to blame ,i have been known to come across it and think oh no not that again, pick it up and fling it! but it never completely dissapears....(so glad I shared that with everyone, back to the assylum.)..S.T.

Found several things over the years.......a hand gardening fork (wondered where that had got to) a broom handle, glass jars, half a paving slab and a lucozade bottle. Don't know where the bottle came from cos I don't drink fizzy stuff.

The most worrying thing was a decapitated scarcrow.....

Can I get into the van with you Strawberry Tart?

Every year when we dig out our compost heap we find yet another weather-beaten Victorinox potato peeler. They seem to get thown out accidentally with the potato peelings so often that we now have about four of them in the cutlery drawer, knowing that sooner or later one or more of them will end up down the bottom of the garden.

We regularly recycle our teaspoons through the compost heap and all those little oval fruit stickers.

John

I rediscovered my aged garlic crusher two years after 'misplacing' it. Sadly it was beyond restoration, which is a shame as the replacement one is rubbish.

An identity ring from a racing pigeon usually still attached to a leg bone and sometimes a skull turns up. I took over my lotty from a pigeon man. Nothing from the house has turned up yet though.