A greenhouse came with the property we bought. After selling it (GH) cos it was much too big and badly maintained we dug up several buckets of glass. As it had been in the same family for about 60 - odd years we reckoned it was from broken panes over the years. Why it wasn't put in the dustbin we'll never know.
It’s funny what people do in their gardens! The glass I’ve been digging up is all different!
I see John was a smoker and buried his plastic lighter as well ! It's surprising what you can dig up, fortunately l've never come across WW2 UXBs or anything like that. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-dorset-52521650
I see John was a smoker and buried his plastic lighter as well ! It's surprising what you can dig up, fortunately l've never come across WW2 UXBs or anything like that. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-dorset-52521650
Yes I found a few lighters as well as many many broken pots. I’m guessing it was a dumping ground at some point.
Thanks for keeping us posted @zugenie - looks like you're having fun! We moved to a sandy garden from a heavy clay one and it is a delight to have workable soil. But it is very sandy so needs a constant supply of organic matter on it. (As did the clay!). We unearthed a folded up metal recliner type deckchair when we first moved in - and about as many bricks as you did @TheGreenMan - very useful. No lighters - but a clay pipe! And bits of glass and bits of crockery, all different, all small and all over the garden.
I started digging in a bit of this garden and hit something solid, got very excited as I thought I'd found a well. Found out later from the previous owner it was merely the concrete base for a compost bin! Very disappointed.
Following a huge storm akin to the 1987 Great Storm (ours happened in January), our old 12ft long wooden greenhouse in a previous garden was lifted up and blown clean over the boundary wall into our neighbours garden. I spent days, very embarrassed, picking buckets full of glass out of their veg bed!
Oh to move into a new home and the garden has been looked after for years and years. That’s the dream. Haha.
Next time. Sod the house. I’ll be searching for a well tended garden.
Ours was abandoned by the seller as soon as we offered on it, so from the beginning of july until october with no maintenance, the nettles were as tall as me!!
@didyw I did like our clay simply for how little I had to water it!! It will be interesting to see what this soil is like this year!
@Lizzie27 oh no!! Incredible that the wind did that though!
I’ve been back out digging again today, since other than being quite windy it actually turned out to be quite a pleasant day!
Got this section done today, before:
And after:
I unearthed a slab in front of that raised bit today, much to my amusement, we had no idea it was there as the grass was growing right on top!
The view looking down the bed, I’ve marked out roughly where the future patio will come out to so I know where to stop
And this bit still to do!
Didn’t know if anyone would be interested in the plants I’ve bought so far, despite buying a fairly expensive tree I am a bargain hunter when it comes to filling the garden!
I have 3 hydrangea strong annabelles, a couple of campanulas, echinacea sunseekers white, peony shirley temple, stokesia mels blue, and liatris kobold. The mount aso salix is possibly going in the other border or front garden, I’m going to pot it on and decide in the autumn.
I’m planning to lay some cardboard down and put some well rotted manure over the top - no dig style, to try and prevent any little bits of weed root or seeds coming up!
Finally here is my tray of treasures aka broken glass
As you can see I have quite the selection 😆 phew, sorry for the long post!
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“We’ll have to see if someone wants those bricks, John. Or you’ll have to take them to the tip”
”Naaaah, I’ll bury them at the bottom of the garden. That’ll be easier!”
It's surprising what you can dig up, fortunately l've never come across WW2 UXBs or anything like that.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-dorset-52521650
I suspect mine was “what shall we do with the glass recycling” “ah just dump it in the garden”
There’s random patches where gravel is mixed in as well,
really odd!
We unearthed a folded up metal recliner type deckchair when we first moved in - and about as many bricks as you did @TheGreenMan - very useful. No lighters - but a clay pipe! And bits of glass and bits of crockery, all different, all small and all over the garden.
Following a huge storm akin to the 1987 Great Storm (ours happened in January), our old 12ft long wooden greenhouse in a previous garden was lifted up and blown clean over the boundary wall into our neighbours garden. I spent days, very embarrassed, picking buckets full of glass out of their veg bed!
The view looking down the bed, I’ve marked out roughly where the future patio will come out to so I know where to stop
I’m planning to lay some cardboard down and put some well rotted manure over the top - no dig style, to try and prevent any little bits of weed root or seeds coming up!
Finally here is my tray of treasures aka broken glass