Egg mysteries
There was a brief spell of good weather on the weekend, if good can be defined as "not raining", so I decided to go down to the plot to do some general tidying up. Sow thistles are sprouting up everywhere, and they're ugly little blighters that are best nipped in the bud.
After having cleared the worst of them, I turned my attentions to a little digging. That's when I found the buried egg.
Avid readers (humour me and pretend they exist) will know that I love a good allotment mystery. 2006 saw the Case of the Disappearing Brassicas (solved), the Case of the Cat Poo (solved) and the Case of the Southmead Egg Leaver (unsolved). I thought this was the first case of 2007, with the similarities to the Case of the Southmead Egg Leaver not going unnoticed.After a few fanciful moments spent wondering if this was a dinosaur's egg (take it home, incubate a T-Rex?) a quick chat to the Allotment Uber Gaffer solved the mystery. It's a goose egg that accidentally got imported with the horse manure. People have been finding quite a few of them, the foxes having been caught moving them around and burying them.
I'll end with a plot overview photo, as there hasn't been one for a while.
posted by AllotmentBoss at 9:35 PM
7 Comments:
Hi, I found your blog whilst browing around. I like your witty writing style, and the tight focus on allotment gardening. I've added a link to you from my blog at www.bean-sprouts.blogspot.com where I also write about allotment agredning, and our family's goal to have a smallholding. I'appreciate it if you'd link back to me, but of course it's entirely up to you. Regards,
hey cool blog. Is there a reason you haven't posted much lately?
A mystery! how exciting. I am still finding stuff in my soil after 25 years on the same plot. Marbles, spoons, clay pipes and coins. Buried treasure!
Strange..... today I was digging over some soil in my back garden veg bed when I too unearthed an egg ! I did use horse manure on the bed last year but theres absolutely no way it could have survived from then. Pretty large egg too... about the size of a chicken egg, but white. I can only assume a fox again. Do squirrels pinch eggs ?
Where are you - we are all missing your updates !!!
I just followed a link from Welsh Girls Allotment, intrigued because we have a similar blog name. Fabulous, I laughed out loud to your manure shoveling antics. I'll be back.
Have you given up the plot? Come on be fair to your fans. We are missing your posts.
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