Is that part of your porch covered? If not, a bird may have dropped it.

If it is covered, some really big rodent may have given you the gift.

Squirrels and other rodents chew on bones and antlers for the calcium and other minerals they contain. My guess is a squirrel drug it up there.

I'm guessing it was dropped too.

Kind of creepy. Hopefully, it's an animal bone!

Yikes! That would not be something I would want to find just outside my door.

Weird. On a side note...I'm very impressed with all your seedlings. You must be planning quite the garden.

There is an uncovered pergola over it. My yard is full of squirrels, so I still think it's a squirrel.

Thank you for the compliment on the seedlings it's probably about half that I typically do. Gardening is what I do all year long. I'll even get outside and weed when it's raining.

My current picture that's keeping me moving towards planting out.

😂 Some type of critter has given you a gift. A really BIG gift of epic proportion in the animal kingdom. You should feel included and special. Me...I'm always freaked out when I'm given dead gifts.......but hey...that's just me. 😂😂😂

Your lucky day! Burry it deep in the flower bed and enjoy the goodness comes months later.

I've had crows or ravens (only a few of those around, they look like crows on steroids 😊) drop things in my yard and on my roof. Wish there weren't so many crows in the neighborhood, they raid the robins nests and those of other birds too. Someone not too far away must be feeding them, I find bread and stale rolls in my bird bath and have to clean it.

I was reading in my back yard on a chaise one afternoon and heard 'thump' only to find a pork chop on the ground right next to me. A cooked pork chop that a crow had only nearly missed me with.

There is a ledge right next to it so presumably the varmint walked along that with its bone which I diagnose as Turkey thigh because what else has that sponge like structure inside and is that big? Perhaps it intended to bury it there. A raccoon if you have those might be toting around a bone. They could reach that spot from the stairs. Still they would tend to dig about on speck so probably not.

At least it was old and dried out. I had this left on my fence a few months ago. I believe it was what was left of a hawk attack.

That is gnarly rox! Y'all are entertaining me with these stories.

I'm thinking of putting it in the middle of the yard so the critter can come back and get it. I didn't trash it. There are steps that they come up sometimes. I expected it to at least sort of have the dirt disturbed on the containers there, but no. Maybe they got interrupted before they had a chance to bury it

Evidently a squirrel felt you needed more bone meal in your mix.

tj

@User, ugh!

Crows will leave gifts.

PS Just saw your post, morz8!

I don't know about the bone, but you may want to investigate why some of your seedling containers have this green hue to the top of the soil. In my experience either they're being overwatered, or the soil mix doesn't drain properly and is waterlogged, or the compost that was used was unfinished. Whichever one it is, it's not a good sign.

Jay,

All my seedlings are very healthy. If there's something green, it's your monitor because there is nothing wrong with them.

Do you mean the leaves? I have no issues. There have been years I have, but not this year.

Maybe it's your imagination?

You seem to have one that blooms....

Different time of day and up close. Right this moment

Dream on dude. Dream on

What is it about you that you can never stay on topic, and everything you have to say is so negative? What is your issue Jay?

You complain about us being welcoming to you, but you don't welcome us????

I was talking about these. You can see the soil surface is green, probably algae, it's generally a sign of severe overwatering, or lack of drainage causing the soils to stay soggy. I was just bringing it to your attention, it's not intended as a negative. Algae is not necessarily harmful, but soil that is too wet can certainly harbor pathogenic fungus and lead to damping off etc.

Being that the rest of your plants look good, I would surmise the soil mixture that was used in these 6-packs is not draining properly, or has too much peat moss and retains too much water.

That bone is crazy. I suspect a crow. I love crows and would like one as a pet. They are so super smart and can figure out puzzles. A woman began feeding one peanuts and saying hello and in a few weeks, the crow would come and sit on the fence and literally say hello many times.

The thread is about the bone. Rob didn’t ask what we thought of the gardening.