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compost heap discoveries
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So far: 1 pair of secateurs 1 cheese knife - great for weeding between slabs and a few chocolate wrappers.
In London. Keen but lazy.
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I used to find all sorts when I was a gardener for other people.
Secateurs were regular, but also the odd phone and penknives
Folk chuck them in the bucket whilst weeding and forget about them
I found what i thought was a snake when out checking for slugs around 11pm...Think it was a slow worm....S Myself lol
..didnt stop me videoing it. 
Secateurs. Brand new Felcos when lost by daughter. Now they need a new blade.
Trowel. Left by OH after cleaning grass from under the Flymo.
Toads hibernating.
Field mice nesting.
Ant nest.
I discovered a wasps nest under construction in one of mine several years ago so luckily I was able to disrupt their nest building before it got out of hand and became a nuisance. Just the other day I lifted the lid on one of my compost bins on the allotment and disturbed a mouse which ran around and around before escaping down a hole in the half composted material, usually I give short shrift to mice but as it was on the allotment and I already knew that mice regularly live in the compost bins I let it get on with life but I do wish that they would stop eating the worms as the compost would decompose much better if it was full of worms.
I didn't find what my compost bin had hidden in it for months after I mulched the borders ......thousands and thousands of stachys seedlings
. Won't put them in again
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Rats! Sorted the problem, but have found slow worms nesting (the eggs are fascinating), voles, ants.
Also sympathise re the seedlings: years and years ago a "friend" gave me some seeds: Nicandra. At the end of the season, I composted the plants with what I thought were unripe seedheads. I am still finding the plants popping up, over a decade later!
A dunnock's nest complete with babies in the bin that is full and cooking at the moment. Also loads of teabags, which is strange because I haven't tried to compost them for years!