I have a HUGE bump under my plastic.

[enjoy the ride]

OK Beekissed- you win the gross out award- eeewwwwweeeee.

 

[Beekissed]

What's worse is that she was actually walking around on these snakes all morning!

 

[Javamama]

Bee! Oh WHY did I have to keep reading? Ewww, get them off me! Ew, Ew, Ew! Creepie crawlies, ew!
I think I'm gonna have to let the weeds have my garden now. I was going to put down plastic before I opened this post

 

[pioneergirl]

Thanx Bee, now I have the creepies whilst drinking my coffee....LOVE YA! :/

I was going to suggest driving a rod down through the middle, but you don't want holes in your plastic.....I can't imagine what it could be, other than a rat colony or some other vermin. ew.

 

[FarmerChick]

I am sure it is a big clump of some grass etc growing

I am sure you won't be attacked....BUT---it could be the PODS
body snatcher pods growing.

be careful!

 

[Wolf-Kim]

:/

Never using black plastic in my garden after all these horror stories!

I know people who raise plants in covered beds, often have to worry about rats and mice under the plastic eating their young plants. The plastic holds heat and many animals are attracted to that heat, especially through winter, I say you have a critter of some sort under there. By the size of the mound, I would say rats, they are little miniature bulldozers, their ability to dig and move dirt is astounding.

If you step on the plastic and it gives into your weight easily, then you can be fairly certain, they have dug their colony of tunnels, pushing the dirt up and out.

 

[Hoosiermomma]

I think I have found the culprit.......

Courtesy of a byc member....lol Of course this little blob of tissue couldn't do it but maybe the blobfish took steroids or growth hormones?????

 

[Ldychef2k]

See, that's the thing. It's not soft.

I am so confused.

:/

If you step on the plastic and it gives into your weight easily, then you can be fairly certain, they have dug their colony of tunnels, pushing the dirt up and out.

 

[Ldychef2k]

Hoosier...finaly a truly viable possibility.

 

[Dace]

Okay, using a combination of your clever suggestions, I first grabbed my ultrasonic stethoscope and rushed out in the rain to the bump. Under cover of darkness, I listened through the ear pieces, and all I could hear was the faintest noise. It sounded for all the world like music, with an occasional "Argh, matey". I gave up guessing and grabbed my shovel.

A foot down, I hit something hard. Using the flashlight, I discovered what looked like shingles. A roof? A bit more exploring and I found what appeared to be a small air pipe coming from below. I grabbed my digital lipstick camera and lowered it on a fishing line down the pipe, and here is what I saw.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YuRU...ED8C0B08&playnext=1&playnext_from=PL&index=10

So glad you caught your Pi-Rat!!