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I have removed a non-invasive HAH bamboo from this area. It had gone under the grass path and was almost in the pond,so it had to go. So far I have dug an area of about 3 m by 2m and as you can see in the second picture removed a lot of stuff.

ah keep some bamboo but in pots i love watching the breeze making the leaves dance    well done i envy your energy lovely pics
marg :D

Eric. Fab work,and you say non-invasive? Blimey.  So how non invasive IS non invasive? 

Cheeky as I am... would like a pic of your border taken from your bridge. I see interesting plants over there!

All things grassses I want to see.

The black cat has not escaped my attention.  ;D ;D ;D

The picture does not show the three big buckets of broken glass,  crockery, scrap metal, bits of car which also came out of the soil. Oh and the 20 or so old torch batteries, nearly forgot about them.
The barrow is full of bamboo roots (Pleioblastus pygmaeus), dandelion roots and couch grass roots. These will have to be bagged and taken to the tip for recycling.
The black cat by the way is Hannibal.

Found these today. There were two others, one so big we could not move it and the other turned up just as it was time to stop. These are not small rocks. They are about 3 foot by 18 inches by 18 inches. We move them using levers go raise them and then rolling the rocks into those large gravel bags. These have good strong handles so we can haul the rocks out of the holes.
Very useful they are too.

I`m conviced that any previous owners of this pile gardened naked or at least with their trousers sewn up. The house goes back to 1790 but after nearly 14 years what have I ever found apart from rocks, a rusty old knife or two and a bit of broken china?

Where are the golden guineas or at least an old penny or farthing :)

any markings on the stones as there a regular shape they could have been buried a long time ago

Perhaps should have mentioned that underneath them has ,so far, always been modern rubbish. Under Rock 3 we think is the remains of one of those old iron bedsteads.
The regular shape of the boulders comes from the action of the Glacier which deposited them in this area. We have been told where some of them originated, like North Wales, Cumbria and even Ireland.
Sad thing is that there are about  6 more in a piece of wasteland at the bottom of the garden and I cannot move them! Rats!!!!!!!

while digging in our garden this year I have dug up [among other things] 3 tea spoons, all in different places and very different ages.  1 is silver and has polished up beautifully.  What is it with spoons?

I think this is so funny. When we lived in Canada bamboo was a favourite  landcaping plant put in by the builders in new homes, several years later you could have made nests in these things. My husband has dug up so much bamboo over the years that it has become a family joke,every time we moved house, sure enough there would be the huge forest of bamboo. The roots just kept going and going .It was very invasive. Now when we walk aroung garden centres and see it and folks admiring it  we both burst out laughing together. XX Jeannine