Kitchen Garden Forum

Just emptied one of my compost bins. Found my husband's long lost glasses and 2 vegetable peelers

after realising my child was missing one day at the plot i found him in the compost ,its more of a big skip though.guess what....he grew 3ins while he was in there

Found my missing secateurs in mine a week ago. My potato peeler often turns up in the wormery.

I've found missing kids socks (nicely rotting), a bees nest, a mouse nest, and once found a partially eaten dinner my son didn't fancy eating buried a few inches under the top layer!

Here if you do not protect the bottom of the pile with expanded metal lathe we get Grass Snakes and a few years back Adders. The EML allows worms in and out but prevents Rats and Mice apart from the Snakes.
"Oh the joys of Rural living"

Many years ago when I lived in the middle of Bradford I found a bunch of baby rats in my compost heap. Put me off composting for a while. Otherwise the usual collection of teaspoons and scissors.

Last winter I dug out a bucketful of compost to put round a new rose I was planting. I tipped out the bucket and out rolled a hibernating hedgehog. It was duly put back in the compost heap and covered up. No trace of it by spring, so I assume it survived. I also find the old skins of grass snakes from time to time.

Finding a teaspoon or peeler in there is unusual?

I thought that's where they went to spawn!

I emptied the existing heap in a house we moved to 9 years ago and found a medium size builders trowel,it's been my tool of choice for weeding ever since.

Slightly off topic but when I bought my house and dug over the vegetable patch I found at least a dozen spoons, several knives and forks and eight cold chisels of varying sizes.

I found me when I sank into the manure heap. Took me half an hour to dig my way back out again!!!

I did that once but got dangerously stuck in a very high heap that was liquid in the middle. I was eventually hauled out with a rope and tractor and lost my wellies! Every time I moved I sank deeper and it was really scary; imagine drowning in THAT!!!!

Phewwwww.

At least mine wasn't wet. Just bloody hot after half an hour of digging. My tootsies were as warm as toast though!!! I stank for a week too. Didn't matter how often I got into the shower!!

Yup, I can remember the smell all too well, as you say, showers, bath, perfume, nothing got rid of it except time.

Oh, I thought you wore "eau du groin" perfume and now find out its manure.