Hidden Treasure...

Things i learned & found while gardening in my yard....

1: Digging red clay soil is more work than it should be.
2: After an hour of digging a woodpecker came to say hi.
3: I found a top to a catfood jar.
4: 2 garden snakes decided to say hello too!
5: i dug up a walking cane
6: I unearthed a weird looking worm so i decided to google it..it turns out its a rare breed called Land Planarian and is harmful to gardens. They eat earthworms and are extremely rare in GA...GET OUT OF MY GARDEN! Hrm..maybe i can sell it on ebay.
7: A frog jumped into my garden while i was diggin.
8: 10 minutes later i found the catfood jar.
9: I dug up a 40 pound cement cylinder.....um...ok.. it had no purpose.
10. After digging in the hot sun all day and feeling acomplished...it thunderstorms 5 minutes later and becomes a pool of red clay. FUCK!

Any hidden treasure youve found while gardening..?

i once found this little plastic doll that had a very "detailed" penis, it mustve been from like the 60's or 70's i loved it

ya .while digging and turn-in the soil I've found
1. some very old Bayer aspirin bottles ,ok really i found 4 of them ,,all different sizes and shapes
2. olds Vicks bottle no bigger than my pinkie finger ,its weird lookin?. 3.some very old Avon bottles
4 . a dime bank ,,its got a picture of a boy in a sailors dress ,you open it with a dime in a slot in the side .i was told its from the 1920's
5.various bottles from the 30's and 40;s up,,most of the Vick's and Bayer bottles are from the mid 1920's too 1940's
6.old coins ..one is a 1896 dime ,that was in the dime bank.. alot of old pennys and nickles,

i still have all of the bottles ,cuzz there weird looking in shapes and sizes ..

ohh and i found some old coffee cup saucers with really kool paintings on them..

if i ever get a cam ,and figure how .i;ll post them some time

Wasn't gardening, but dinking off with a buddy of mine in our little hideout when we were young; found a bunch of old, thick glass cobalt blue bottles and a metal Hellman's mayonaise lid, lol.

Otherwise, sadly I haven't had that many niffy unearthings. Definitely an interesting worm you dug up there.. never seen one myself. Cool stuff!

dig dig dig
hey, a bone! looks like a sheep's rib.
dig dig
what's that? shoulderblade? whatever.
dig dig dig
oh.

human skull.

fill fill fill fill fill

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Originally Posted by VoldtaEngler

6: I unearthed a weird looking worm so i decided to google it..it turns out its a rare breed called Land Planarian and is harmful to gardens.

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photo!

digging around and under my house just gets me garbage and wierd things that the previous owners obviously thought would work for draining the ground water, so basically just more proof to me that they were all a bunch of retards

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Originally Posted by sheramil

photo!

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http://georgiafaces.caes.uga.edu/gra...narian33lr.jpg

What ther fuck is that??? kill it dude!!

When I lived in St Klahd we were trying to dig out my mom's old buick that had sunk in hte mud and we came up with ...well, the contents of a 1970's landfill that the house was built on.

While digging to plant my mom's ficus at her place on hte beach we found out that the previous owners had their own pet cemtery. *creepy*

and here at my mom in law's place we found ALOT of snakes in the yard. that's about it.

and I'm wiht Karl on the Kill the Worm thingy. EWW! It looks slimy.
K

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Originally Posted by VoldtaEngler

http://georgiafaces.caes.uga.edu/gra...narian33lr.jpg

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hammerhead worm, ,neat

I just realized you got red mud, you can grow good potatoes in that

yep. my garden apparently used to be a vegtable garden as i dug up carrots and parsley...but it was in the front yard..??

man, that worm looks so not like something you want around your vegetables

those worms you find require high levels of humidity in order to survive. since they can't survive in the soil during periods of extreme temperature (summer, winter) they usually live inside of logs or peices of wood and debris. In other words, if you have them, then it's your own fault for leaving materials around that they can live in.

they do eat earthworms. however unless you are breeding worms for compost to use as organic fertalizer then it really has nothing to do with you. most typical earthworms don't produce any fertalizer so there isn't much a difference between them and the planarians, other then that the planarians eat other plant eating creatures, which will be more harmful to your garden then they are. If you are using some miracle grow shit, it will probably kill all the worms anyway, reguardless.

your best bet would be to get rid of any things that the planarians can live in and dig up the soil, exposing them to the light. this will be better for your garden anyway, as you should know as a grower. at this point esp, in the south, birds will probably come and eat them and birds are good for gardens too, cuz they shit and drop seeds.

i'd also suggest going to a psychologist and find out if you have issues with your childhood or something, because the desire to want to kill animals for no apparent reason seems to me an issue of low self esteem and or/ anger psychosis.

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Originally Posted by VoldtaEngler

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I found one of those when I lived on a farm i Hawaii. They are kind of creepy really.

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Originally Posted by Morning Glory

In other words, if you have them, then it's your own fault for leaving materials around that they can live in.

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um..i just moved in this house less than a month ago. so its not my fault all this crap is in my yard as im trying to clean all the shit up!

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Originally Posted by Morning Glory

i'd also suggest going to a psychologist and find out if you have issues with your childhood or something, because the desire to want to kill animals for no apparent reason seems to me an issue of low self esteem and or/ anger psychosis.

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um..who said anything about killing animals...? i have 7 freaking cats for gods sake!

uh, I didn't say anything about killing animals either, it's a worm, and if there's one there could be more

but then again, if the birds are atracted by these worms then your cats will be real happy :rolleyes:

sorry, voldta. I meant the rhetorical you, not You specifically.

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Originally Posted by Morning Glory

sorry, voldta. I meant the rhetorical you, not You specifically.

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its cool. :cool:

that is rad..

I once unearthed a Truimph Spitfire and a Nash Metropolitan in my Back yard.. Then there was the Baseball bat my uncle had lost when he was 12, and I found it 15 years later in my grandfathers backyard..

GOLF BALLS are the bane of my gardening existance... over the las 20 years or so, i have probably found 100,000 golf balls

My nieghbour sells the golfballs he finds for like 25cents a pop

DAMN IT.. I could be rich.

I just threw them in the firepits :1orglaugh

hahaa okay... that worm is nasty. ew!
i was walking to school once and found a 3 legged snuffalufagus figurine... it was awesome.
but i like it best when i find 10 dollar bills on the sidewalk :D

i was digging the foundations to a new patio when i unearthed a Mr.Spock figure that i had buried like 10 years previously... this was one of the original startrek action figures, the clothes had rotted off it, and i remember being bummed out at 'losing' it when i was a kid.

man if i'd kept those figures in decent condtion I'D be rich...

oh well...

some were out there is like 4 GI joe's i had as a child ,and a jeep,and other stuff ..ya what if lol .i feel your pain lol

haha my brother still played with G.I. joes in the bath tub up until a couple years ago... then he turned 17.

beats my bro ,,he played with Barbie dolls til he was 12

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Originally Posted by Anarkey

beats my bro ,,he played with Barbie dolls til he was 12

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that doesnt surprise me

ya my dad use too tell him wtf go play with your brothers GI joes ,,,and they were never seen again..............

that dont sound good :S

ps it's not "treasure" it's "trayshure".

unless you're some kind of ninja, in which case it would be, uh, 宝物 i guess.

I once found a macho man randy savage finger puppet from when he was with nwo in the backyard. thought it was cute so i still have it.