Top 5 surprise non-foods she's found in her garden

[zeborah]

Bits of rubbish blow in from time to time, of course. Neighbours' children throw toys over fences. Other things are less explicable.

5. A tooth
An apparently human molar tooth. Why! Do not want! I was minding my own business digging out the onion weeds, and suddenly, a human tooth. I was planning to put more strawberry plants along there and now I feel I should put a rāhui on the place instead. (I probably won't, but all the same!)

4. A half-rotted jandal
I see what happened here: someone's jandal came off and they moved house before they could be bothered picking it up and putting it in the bin.

3. A cufflink
Some cheap metal, brass or something idk. Initials W.R.C. Found in the same patch of ground as the molar tooth, come to think of it. Should I be researching old unsolved murders?

2. A stone turtle
This is technically intended as a garden ornament so technically it's not that surprising. It's just that it's small, and easily covered with weeds or dirt, so I get to enjoy finding it again on a semi-regular basis depending on how much I've kept up with the gardening.

1. A $20 bill
New Zealand notes are made of plastic. This wasn't done specifically to enable them to be buried in one's garden, but it certainly helped prove that while money doesn't grow on trees, it can sometimes be found under them and only needs a bit of a rinse. Score!

Comments

[china_shop]

This wasn't done specifically to enable them to be buried in one's garden, but it certainly helped prove that while money doesn't grow on trees, it can sometimes be found under them and only needs a bit of a rinse. Score!

Hee! Score, indeed!

My garden has both a claw-foot bath and a toilet in it, which I periodically forget about as they get overgrown, and remember only when we get around to hacking the weeds back. :-)

[hrj]

I'd be looking for additional bits of body parts...

(Serious question: any chance these are leftovers from burying a cremation?)

[zeborah]

Oh, that's less implausible than a whole body being buried in that narrow strip. And there are rose bushes (though it's not the only area with rose bushes). I'd have thought a single tooth more likely to have been successfully burnt though? It's in pretty good nick, no sign of scorching; I can see a cavity at the gum line and everything.

[catherineldf]

Good deal, on the money, at least!

[choirwoman]

I found a splendid faux-bronze earring on our roof terrace, and I thought a magpie had stolen it elsewhere and dropped it but it turned out to belong to a regular house-guest (who has it back now, and where she bought it they're no longer available, grr, because I want some of my own!)