Weird rotting fleshy object found in pot

BananaRepublic

I was emptying out large plant pots today with a view to planting carrots. One large 12” pot was full of compost, I started scooping it out when I felt a large rubbery object, roughly egg shaped and maybe 4” long, covered in soil, but with part exposed to show a pinkish fleshy moist region. I then noticed a stench of rotting meat, overpowering. It turned my stomach so I emptied everything out onto the garden. 

My question is what was it? The compost originally looked undisturbed. At first I thought it was fungal, a hypogeous (underground) fungus, but I don’t think so. There are fungi that grow from buried ‘eggs’ such as the stinkhorn, and perhaps one could rot before achieving tumescence. I did think about a buried dead animal, maybe a fox meal, such as a rat but the compost looked undisturbed. Foxes are said to leave a meal and come back later, and we have foxes and badgers visiting. 

Yes I could retrieve it and check, but as I say it turned my stomach. Maybe I’m becoming squeamish with age. Hopefully someone has come across something similar. 

MovingForwards

Maybe ask in the gardening section, as they seem to be very knowledgeable!

BananaRepublic

MovingForwards said:

Maybe ask in the gardening section, as they seem to be very knowledgeable!

I didn’t realise there was one. Thanks. 

greatcrested

Photo?????

Davesnave

Dead toad?

When we sold plants, we'd sometimes find live toads buried in the compost when put pots out on the stall. It happened frequently enough for us to keep a 'toad box' in the van so we could take the animal home again.

There will be a lot of knackered old toads just now, at the end of their mating season!

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Davesnave said:

Dead toad?

When we sold plants, we'd sometimes find live toads buried in the compost when put pots out on the stall. It happened frequently enough for us to keep a 'toad box' in the van so we could take the animal home again.

There will be a lot of knackered old toads just now, at the end of their mating season!

Hahaha,  
Great imagery in my mind right now

BananaRepublic

I have added a thread in the gardening section:

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/6132391/rotting-object-in-compost-what-is-it/p1?new=1

greatcrested said:

Photo?????

No it wasn’t a photo.

victor2

BananaRepublic said:

I have added a thread in the gardening section:

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/6132391/rotting-object-in-compost-what-is-it/p1?new=1

greatcrested said:

Photo?????

No it wasn’t a photo.

I don't think that was a suggestion of what it might be, more a question of can you take one?!

BananaRepublic

victor2 said:

BananaRepublic said:

I have added a thread in the gardening section:

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/6132391/rotting-object-in-compost-what-is-it/p1?new=1

greatcrested said:

Photo?????

No it wasn’t a photo.

I don't think that was a suggestion of what it might be, more a question of can you take one?!

Don’t tell anyone, but I know. Shhh. 

Mistral001

Have you had any dinner guests who were seated next to the pot and who finished their beef Wellington suspiciously quickly?