what i found in a customers garden

yesterday i did a 4hr private job for a new customer who's garden could only be compaired to a weedy rubbish dump.:DOH:
i took pictures and will add once i've worked out how to do that
i'm not complaining the extra work helps pay my way but here is what i found under the 2metre high bramble patch even i was amazed
oh! and i challenge all you good folk on this great website to out do me

i found: a 14 inch tv, 2 indoor speakers, a childs coat, 4 plastic bins, 3 metal dustbins, a execise bike, 1 broken fork, a load of childrens toys, 1 dinning room chair, a completely rotten kitchen unit minus the sink, 2 shoes missing their opposite partners, 2 plastic washing up bowls, 1 car batterie, 4 foam cushions that had rotted and fallen apart, a metal scaffold bar with concrete attached ( i believe to be one end of a washing line), numerous bags of household rubbish in black sacks and shopping bags, a nice plaster moulding, a collapsed trellace and finally a nappy bin with used nappys.:yess:

i put my foot in it with the customer asking if he'd only just moved in, "no" he replied he'd lived their for over 5 years.
the customer told me the mess was made by his x partner.

 

No can't beat that Graham, although I'm still finding rubbish in mine, our house is built on old allotment land and I think the gentleman who had it buried everything, he has an allotment at the bottom of our garden now 91 years old and on there every day,lovely old chap.
I've found a bike, dozens of pill bottles, whisky gin and vodka bottles(must have had parties in his shed), well I know he still does he's invited me to a couple recently, frisky old b*****,didn't go I must add, a door,still in one piece, a manhole cover, enough bricks to build a small house, well maybe not that many but loads, our neighbour says he had a bed in his shed, I've yet to find that

 

Blimey thats a fair amount Graham. Some people are just messy, look what I have to put up with,





I've left a brush there as a hint, but that hasn't worked.:(

 

... I had exactly the same yesterday .... I spent 3 hrs in a village sorting a guys garden (basically just mowing the back garden, removing brambles etc) .... that is the last time I ever take a job without looking first .... I found all sorts of stuff



I even went so far as landscaping his garden on cad (just a quick one to give him an idea).... I have mailed him but he has not replied, so don't think he is too keen to spend money to sort the place ... this is what I sent him:

 

aesculus i laughted to i'm a plank sometimes

simbad i've worked on estates that had victorian bottle pits :D
found some lovely bottles :yess:

ziggy i'm hoping that those wine bottles where emptyed over a period of time or woe to that hangover, keep the fags though not my cup of tea

dim love the camelia and the cotinus in your design. sometimes you just can't help out a customer not all of them like a good design weirdos

right i will try to post my pics now here it goes

 

Jeez .... your garden that you worked at was worse than mine! ....

I mulched the grass and packed all the junk in a corner for the owner to remove as his dustbins were overflowing

strange thing is that his neighbour on one side has a neat garden with thick lush lawn .... a few fence/wall panels missing against that boundary .... but the fence/wall belongs to the guy I worked for so seems he has not bothered to replace it

must be sad for the neighbour if ever he wants to sell, as it will put prospective buyers off

I have a feeling that I will only be asked to mow again in a years time .... next time, the rate will be double

 

My BEST find in a garden was a 24carat signet ring which was lost by the clients late husband over 20 years previously. The strange thing was, I was clearing rubbish from under an apple tree and the ring was just laying there.

 

dim i've had jobs like that where i've had to strim and rake the grass, i should of made hay out of it:D:D
this job is a total redo i'm getting a mini digger in next tine and totally ripping the guts out:yess:

dave you lucky so and so, my head gardener found a silver snuff box int the old greenhouse when he was refabing the place. i just find horseshoes and bottles

 

Have you got a rat problem - LH corner of pic?

 

Yes, we live next to a Game Farm. But the rats are not the problem, they make far less mess than evil wife.

I'm not allowed to set traps for her, but after the recent pilfering of the wine, I have decanted some liquid feed into one of her myriad empty wine bottles & left it next to the indoor tomato

 

When we moved here and started to level the lawn the only thing we kept finding was sheets of glass laying horizotally about 6 inches below the surface, we decided that we would take it up as i always said i would grow veggies and we figured rather than dig it twice

honest to goodness they must have buried at least 10 cats and and about 6 dogs and i just not sure what the rest of the bones were

 

i returned to same garden today i found 2 barbie dolls, a mix of lights with cables, a pond, 2 victorian sinks (one broken). a saurce pan, a carpet, loads of bricks and blocks, household rubbish and a gibbon (cuddly toy not real one)

 

Crikey Graham, its getting like an episode of the Generation Game you'll be digging up Bruce Forsyth next

 

While digging over our land we've found loads too, bits of broken tractor, cow horns,horse shoes, rusty buckets,barbed wire and bits of fence,feed sacks, medicine bottles and syringes. But predominantly wine bottles. I gave up counting after we went past 200!
You'd never guess it was a farm house. (Farmer was obviously a bit too fond of the vino.)