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Earlier on today, I was planting up some vegetables in the garden and moving some other bits around. I decided to move a Ruby Chard from a trough to my new raised bed and dug it up with a trowel and carried it over. As I was spreading the roots round in the hole, I felt something in the roots. It was an egg! A chicken's egg!
It must have been a fox as my squirrel couldn't have done it even though he buries everything else! One can only admire the dexterity and skill of the fox in getting an egg from goodness knows where, a bin-bag I suppose, carrying it into my high walled garden and onto the low wall where the trough was where he must have balanced and dug, popped the egg in and covered it up.....and all without breaking it! Marvellous!
The thing is I now remember this is not the first time this happened either- last year, I found an egg buried in a tall narrow flower pot, again right down in the roots. I love foxes.
There is often a foxy smell around the garden especially where they pee in the veg containers and plot-does this affect the vegetables? Will it have a nasty effect on them? Are they still edible?
It must have been a fox as my squirrel couldn't have done it even though he buries everything else! One can only admire the dexterity and skill of the fox in getting an egg from goodness knows where, a bin-bag I suppose, carrying it into my high walled garden and onto the low wall where the trough was where he must have balanced and dug, popped the egg in and covered it up.....and all without breaking it! Marvellous!
The thing is I now remember this is not the first time this happened either- last year, I found an egg buried in a tall narrow flower pot, again right down in the roots. I love foxes.
There is often a foxy smell around the garden especially where they pee in the veg containers and plot-does this affect the vegetables? Will it have a nasty effect on them? Are they still edible?
Obviously a hard core hoarder...a pack rat even ! 
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