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Post by daylilydude on Feb 14, 2018 4:58:37 GMT -5
I have only found old nails, rocks and the occasional pile of buried cat poo while gardening... have you found anything you care to tell us about?
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Post by carolyn on Feb 14, 2018 8:01:17 GMT -5
I found this while I was planting flowers in the front yard a couple years ago. There is fill there so I am pretty sure it was hauled in when we built the house 25 years ago. I have no idea what it is. the other side is perfectly level. it isn't bone and it is very lightweight... but hard like stone.
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Post by paulf on Feb 14, 2018 8:26:19 GMT -5
All we get are old auto parts because my father-in-law used that part of the property to park old cars and trucks to work on them...or let them rust out.
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Post by ahntjudy on Feb 14, 2018 8:52:50 GMT -5
Some really cool intact old bottles... A large cobalt blue old Bromo Seltzer bottle... A smaller cobalt blue Bromo Seltzer bottle...this one has 'Emerson Drug Co. Baltimore' on it... {{I guess whoever lived here before must have had digestive issues... }}
A light denim blue bottle...thick glass...must have been sealed with a cork judging by the top rim... A tall, must have been some kind of soda bottle or something...apparently had a screw cap...the bottle shape has 10 'sides' to it... A small, clear, 4 sided glass bottle...also must have had a cork... And an old Angostura Bitters bottle...loden green...with 'JCB Siegert & Sons D r' on it... And of course lots of really neat rocks...
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Post by brownrexx on Feb 14, 2018 9:19:11 GMT -5
The area where I garden was farmland for all of the years before we built our house on it so all I ever find are rocks and the occasional piece of rusty metal.
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Post by Laura_in_FL on Feb 14, 2018 10:13:59 GMT -5
Nothing exciting. Odd bits of construction debris, presumably from when my house was built. I suppose there is always a chance of finding an arrowhead or bits of pottery, but I haven't been that lucky.
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Post by meandtk on Feb 14, 2018 10:54:59 GMT -5
Bits of glass, an old medicine bottle, nuts, bolts, nails, a leaf spring, spark plugs, and numerous rubber teat cups from the milking machine that was in the old dairy barn that once stood nearby.
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Post by september on Feb 14, 2018 13:30:42 GMT -5
A rotten muskrat body that our dog buried in my newly worked up corn bed. Ewww!
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Post by Laura_in_FL on Feb 14, 2018 15:17:39 GMT -5
Eww indeed! It's a shame that your dog didn't bury it really deep so that you never found it. Then you would have wondered all season why that * one spot* in your corn bed grew the most fantastically enormous corn.
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Post by spike on Feb 14, 2018 17:05:25 GMT -5
When we moved the garden we put it over the old burn pit. Other than rocks we get some random broken glass and bits of twisted metal.
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Post by hairymooseknuckles on Feb 14, 2018 19:04:43 GMT -5
I once found a hunk of steel. I figured it broke off one of my uncle's implements. I tested it and it was high carbon, so I fired of the Forge and beat me a blade. I slapped a piece of purple heart on it and poured a pewter cap.
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Post by octave1 on Feb 14, 2018 20:58:08 GMT -5
Be careful handling old medicine bottles. Radithor, a product manufactured between 1918 and 1928 by the Bailey Radium Laboratories, was sold in small, amber glass bottles. They are radioactive to this day. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radithor
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Post by bluelacedredhead on Feb 14, 2018 21:39:36 GMT -5
On the farm we found old beer bottles buried under the lilac bushes, a few medicine bottles and the skeleton of a horse with the bit in it's mouth. They must have just buried it where it dropped dead? Oh, and my mare kept pawing at something in the ground on the other side of the fence from the garden. Turned out it was the front end off an old county roadcrew truck from the 1940's.
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Post by hairymooseknuckles on Feb 14, 2018 22:11:33 GMT -5
Not in the garden, but there was a cotton gin and blacksmith shop here and every now and again we have found little pieces of coal.
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Post by bestofour on Feb 14, 2018 23:42:40 GMT -5
Be careful handling old medicine bottles. Radithor, a product manufactured between 1918 and 1928 by the Bailey Radium Laboratories, was sold in small, amber glass bottles. They are radioactive to this day. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RadithorOh gosh we've found all sorts of old amber bottles. We've also found arrowheads, blue bottles, a corn cob pipe, old tools. This was a working farm back in the day.
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Post by paulf on Feb 15, 2018 9:30:46 GMT -5
I knew a picture was taken of the find my granddaughter made while planting sunflowers in the garden: an exhaust pipe from an old truck.
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Post by brownrexx on Feb 15, 2018 9:59:23 GMT -5
She looks very proud of that find paulf,
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Post by hairymooseknuckles on Feb 15, 2018 10:15:10 GMT -5
paulfYou just proved you ain't a grumpy ol' man! No one can be grumpy with a helper like that.
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Post by paulf on Feb 15, 2018 11:06:24 GMT -5
That little girl of my little girl keeps my on my toes and young and happy. She loves the garden and the treasures it brings forth...more the junk than the vegetables.
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Post by horsea on Feb 15, 2018 12:21:27 GMT -5
Bits of glass, an old medicine bottle, nuts, bolts, nails, a leaf spring, spark plugs, and numerous rubber teat cups from the milking machine that was in the old dairy barn that once stood nearby.
Don't ask me why, but I roared out loud on reading this.
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Post by meandtk on Feb 15, 2018 12:29:37 GMT -5
Bits of glass, an old medicine bottle, nuts, bolts, nails, a leaf spring, spark plugs, and numerous rubber teat cups from the milking machine that was in the old dairy barn that once stood nearby. Don't ask me why, but I roared out loud on reading this. Things still work to the surface each year. The medicine bottle was a beautiful cobalt blue. I wish I had kept it. Another was white like milk glass. My grandpRent's old house stood where one plot is. The house was later used for storage and a tractor shed. So many things remain under the dirt from when it was torn down in 2000.
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Post by meandtk on Feb 15, 2018 12:30:10 GMT -5
Every now and then a blade from an old sickle hay cutter shows up.
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Post by bestofour on Feb 17, 2018 0:15:12 GMT -5
paulf, I love her attitude in this picture.
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Post by paulf on Feb 17, 2018 11:14:49 GMT -5
paulf, I love her attitude in this picture. Yes, attitude aplenty. Eight going on eighteen. The only eight year old on the girls hockey team to get a penalty box visit so far this year. She says, "That girl just wouldn't get out of her way when she was going for a goal." Several Minneapolis girls on the Olympic team this year and one was a coach helping her main coach, an ex-NHL player. Watch out world.
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Post by bluelacedredhead on Feb 23, 2018 7:53:19 GMT -5
So 2026 paulf, ? Wonderful!
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Post by carolyn on Feb 23, 2018 11:08:49 GMT -5
Paulf... that girl is a treasure... nothing else matters, huh?
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Post by paulf on Feb 23, 2018 11:17:06 GMT -5
Paulf... that girl is a treasure... nothing else matters, huh? She is a treasure, and the other 5 grandkids are treasures as well. The gold medal coach's name is Dani Cameranesi.
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Post by ladymarmalade on Feb 23, 2018 11:51:20 GMT -5
One year I found a rotten duck egg. I found it when I stabbed my turning fork into the soil. Somehow the egg got tucked in the very corner of the garlic patch and I didn't see it until it was too late. Oh my gosh, such a smell!
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Post by carolyn on Feb 23, 2018 20:46:33 GMT -5
One year I found a rotten duck egg. I found it when I stabbed my turning fork into the soil. Somehow the egg got tucked in the very corner of the garlic patch and I didn't see it until it was too late. Oh my gosh, such a smell! wow oh wow. I can only imagine... and this would have been a good time to have one of those colds where you can't smell a thing.
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Post by guruofgardens on Feb 24, 2018 10:06:50 GMT -5
We've found (and lost) a few earrings in the community garden. The latest was a huge hoop with dangling stuff. No one has claimed that just yet.
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