The stinkyest smell gardening list.

David

HAHA!! Isn't gardening fun!?!?

maybe now you've learned how to be smarter than the water hose....maybe not....

He jests at scars, that never felt a wound.

1. the contents of your fly trap. Originally baited with some stinking powder mixed with water. Made more putrid over several weeks by rotting flies and sun.

Invariably taking the lid off the ridiculously thin plastic container resulted in the bastard splitting and spraying fly rot up your arms and down t-shirt. One shower later & the a smell like fresh cow poop still remains.

rob

Well, there was that groundhog that was destroying the garden. I was so desperate the rifle came out. I thought I had missed until a couple of weeks later. He made it to the entrance of his den, under the porch. Steve

1. Bought a house with ample garden space. Started clearing a few plots and found an old Coleman cooler in the tall weeds. Why I opened that, I'll never know, but I'll never do it again. It had someones now extremely rancid picnic lunch inside, my lunch landed next to it. The cooler was still there when I sold the place a couple years later.

Newb

Drowned squirrel in a rainbarrel, here.

We keep rainbarrels covered these days.

AWWWWWW!!!! Nasty. !!!!!

Not strictly garden-related but.... We break out the riding lawn mower only once or twice each year. It is stored in a shed that, otherwise, gets very little attention. One hot spring morning within the past two-or-three years, my nose led me thereto and to a o'possum who'd got himself wedged partway in the discharge chute and partway under the mower bed. My first removal attempt reduced the beast to 'possum parts. Indulge your imagination for a few seconds and you'll have a hint.... I still smell it on humid summer mornings.

My encounter was a 5-gal bucket. Fortunately, saturation was from about my chest downward, a garden hose filled with warm water was nearby, and I was at home. Such "tea pots" are commonplace around here but they are not normally _that_ well-aged! LOL I steep green trimmings, for example, in the hot FL sun, sometimes adding store-bought microbes, and use the liquid for diluting fish emulsion or whatever, compost starter, etc. Losing track of that particular bucket could be taken, I suppose, as evidence of the notorious "the Balvenie" effect ;-)

So what smells worse.

Dead Armadillo, Dead possum Dead groundhog.

I'm thankful not to know! eeyew

Never smelled a dead armadillo, but groundhog beats possum hands down.

Dead skunk beats them all.

Had one manage to die in the daylilies next to my neighbor's house (which is right near my kitchen door).

But the nastiest smell I've run into while gardening when I've managed to stick a finger into a rotten peanut that some squirrel had buried in my garden the year before. Oh, it's just HORRIBLE.

The one you have to deal with.

...and makes the best story.

Very true! and then there are those rotten potatoes in the cellar, you know... the ones you forgot about until you put your hand into them.....

I can remember breaking a hard boiled egg found under a pine tree next to the porch. In the dead of summer , that was left over from the Easter egg hunt.