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Look what I found amongst my petunias

SonnieBSonnieB Posts: 124
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Good afternoon all

I was just deadheading my petunias after a week of neglect and found this hidden away inside the pot



Not sure how a bird would even get in there, the plant was like a jungle.  Not really sure what to do, I guess I should leave it where it is. 
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  • nutcutletnutcutlet Posts: 27,445
    I wonder if something else buried that rather than a bird laying it. 


    In the sticks near Peterborough
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    It'll be a rotten hen's egg, buried by a fox ... remove it, and bin it or compost it if the compost heap is far enough away from anyone' kitchen door/open windows etc ... it'll stink to high heaven if/when it breaks.

    https://www.rhs.org.uk/advice/profile?PID=511   "....Foxes will hide excess food for future use, this can include burying chicken eggs they have found .... "



    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • SonnieBSonnieB Posts: 124
    Thank you @Dovefromabove and @nutcutlet.  It has cleared up the mystery of the holes that have been dug up and why I yet again had to buy another hosepipe as the one I had developed a leak and I was suspicious something had chewed through it.  Just discarding the egg now. 
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    edited August 2018
    SonnieB said:
    ... Just discarding the egg now. 
    Thanks for the warning ... holding my nose here ........ you're not really that far south from here and the wind's coming from your way lol

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • SonnieBSonnieB Posts: 124
    I double bagged it so think you will be OK, lol
  • fidgetbonesfidgetbones Posts: 17,618
    I found a sausage once, buried in the veg plot.   I think there must have been too many left over after a BBQ somewhere.
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    I found one of those dog chews. It was huge .
    I left it on the ground. It was gone in the morning, hopefully planted more sensibly
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • SonnieBSonnieB Posts: 124
    @b3, I found one of those too, always wondered where it came from
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
     :) 
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • herbaceousherbaceous Posts: 2,318
    I have the opposite problem, daughter's dog buries his treat if its too big for him. When he visits again off he goes to retrieve it, but its gone! He digs and digs, looks puzzled but I don't think he's worked out yet that the fox got there first  :D
    "The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it."  Sir Terry Pratchett
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