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What is the oldest or strangest thing you have ever found on your plot?

Hmm let's see...

A Moris Minor bumper (that'd be amoungst the matress, 3x electric mowers and a crumpled bike frame

Our 'allotment dragon' which is a little dragon figurine cracking out of an egg. To add character, a centipede (or millipeded?) had burrowed into it and made a sharp exit when we brushed it off

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Shortie

"There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children; one of these is roots, the other wings" - Hodding Carter

To date shrews, toad. newt, also football goal post including the concrete bit and a grave marker !!!

Hi

Two metal hooks and a horseshoe.

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PT

Carpe Diem

The way I see it, if you want the rainbow you have got to put up with the rain!

Oldest was the old greenhouse litteraly falling to bits when I got it, gone now.
Strangest thing on my allotment was a succesful crop the first year i had it.

Cheers Chris

Several ingot moulds (from the days when the molten steel was hand poured) Loads of bull-bars from 4x4s, a caravan axle and, further up the plot, the crumpled aluminium body of said caravan, countless car exhausts, two trailer axles, two stainless steel toilets, a set of park gates and a bus shelter. All of it hidden under twelve foot high brambles. Either the previous tenant was a scrap metal dealer or he was hoping to create some sort of modernist abstract sculpture park.

Here- have a look at this thread too!

buried treasure

Thats great thanks Nicos....
I find loads of shell fossils they are really lovely, treasure for me!

On one plot we found over 200 hen eggs burried in a huge mound !! (and shoes and metal toy cars LOL )
The fox was fed eggs by someone on the plot and had decide our plot was ideal to hide them on !!!!!!!!! had to be VERY carful when we dug them up as you can imagine how bad they smelt Phewwwwwwwwwww !

we found old eggs too but not that many!

an old cast iron oven/stove door, and the anderson bomb shelter are proberbly the oldest but the oddest is either the collection of supermarket shopping trollys or the dead terapin.

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Yo an' Bob
Walk lightly on the earth
take only what you need
give all you can
and your produce will be bountifull

I found an Anderson Shelter and now use it as a compost bin....but there us something under my plot that I don't want to find.

Alledgedly there is an unexploded V2.....or V1 depending on the story teller..I go for the V1 as unless you were standing by the plot you would not see the V2 landing. The Bomb disposal people dug down to 12ft couldn't find it so as it was allotments said they would come back when they got time....that was in 1945...and still we wait.

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Dont forget to foot in those new fruit bushes very firmly.. really the harder you stamp the better..

When I was told I was turning the "soil" over with a pick axe cos it was so compacted.

I thought it was a wind up, but its ment to be true.

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My pal Gordon...........ROFL, he is 70 something years always on about death, has many a good story to make u laugh but he is strange and he will agree lol.; we have a specially built raised bed we nicknamed the coffin!

On my new plot, I have unearthed :

• a rusty ironing board
• a complete set of billiard balls
• a 6 foot curtain track complete with hooks
• a bag of CDs and books
• a china plate
• a set of cutlery

(the neighbour decided it was easier to chuck her rubbish over the fence instead of putting it in her wheelie bin.

On my old plot, I dug up a duck's skeleton. The person who inherits my plot will dig up a cockatiel skeleton (RIP Birdie 1994-2005)

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I've got a buckled plough on mine (Horse drawn variety)....now a 'sculpture'

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Paul

Seems odd that most of the 'treasure' found on plots is modern day thrown out junk!
I thought it would mostly old coins, pipes, etc.
lots of Anderson shelters!!

yesterday my dad found a ladies sex toy under the hedge on my plot - i nearly died!!!

Ah but does it still work?

he did say that they had took out the batteries, i did wonder why i uncovered so many batteries when clearing the rubbish from the previous owner!

Was it a big one? cos you could grow something up it if it was.

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Can I add one.....year before last I found an Eastern European Criminal a EUC as we call them in these parts. Stripping the plum from my tree and putting them in a plastic bag.

She tried the old "speeko no del emglisho" trick so I took the bag and walked off to HER crys of THIEF.

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hi there mikon warrior if the grounds hard where you are. and you put new batterys in it. maybe you can use it as a jack hammer.and in years to come you may be able to claim for vibration white finger.only a joke mate

it would make lovey straight cucumbers!