A very weird appearance on the soil in some pots. Very large blobs of clear
jelly just sitting on the surface of the soil. Definitely not water
retaining gel. It almost looks like it's rained jelly!

Anyone know what these blobs might be?

Ade wrote:
> A very weird appearance on the soil in some pots. Very large blobs of clear
> jelly just sitting on the surface of the soil. Definitely not water
> retaining gel. It almost looks like it's rained jelly!
> Anyone know what these blobs might be?

Pixie spit. Sorry ... I will stop right now. Promise. No, I've no idea.
Too early for cuckoo's spit - still not jelly enough. How trully
strange. Which colour?

> Ade wrote:
> > A very weird appearance on the soil in some pots. Very large blobs of
clear
> > jelly just sitting on the surface of the soil. Definitely not water
> > retaining gel. It almost looks like it's rained jelly!
> > Anyone know what these blobs might be?
>
> Pixie spit. Sorry ... I will stop right now. Promise. No, I've no idea.
> Too early for cuckoo's spit - still not jelly enough. How trully
> strange. Which colour?

Totally clear in colour. It's not a solid, so I don't think it's a fungus.
If you try to pick it up it just runs, exactly like a half-set jelly. I'm
going to take a closer look to see if it has any eggs in it. Do birds throw
up jelly? I'll laugh if it turns out my daughter has thrown out her pots of
jelly snacks that I bought her this week !!

Ade wrote:
> Totally clear in colour. It's not a solid, so I don't think it's a fungus.
> If you try to pick it up it just runs, exactly like a half-set jelly. I'm
> going to take a closer look to see if it has any eggs in it.

Indeed. If you have a microscope, would be really interesting :o) You
said in pots?! What would deliver that jelly in a pot?! You'd think
you'd find it in the grass, if it's from a frog. I can't think of an
insect doing 'jelly'. Do be carefull though ... it's a *blob* <cue
scarry music>

Do birds throw
> up jelly?

A sneeze?! LOL!!!

But perhaps that's a question for Malcom ...

I'll laugh if it turns out my daughter has thrown out her pots of
> jelly snacks that I bought her this week !!

How dissapointing ... ;o)

"Ade" <ade [at] nowhere.com> wrote in message
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>> Ade wrote:
>> > A very weird appearance on the soil in some pots. Very large blobs of
> clear
>> > jelly just sitting on the surface of the soil. Definitely not water
>> > retaining gel. It almost looks like it's rained jelly!
>> > Anyone know what these blobs might be?
>>
>> Pixie spit. Sorry ... I will stop right now. Promise. No, I've no idea.
>> Too early for cuckoo's spit - still not jelly enough. How trully
>> strange. Which colour?
>
> Totally clear in colour. It's not a solid, so I don't think it's a
> fungus.
> If you try to pick it up it just runs, exactly like a half-set jelly. I'm
> going to take a closer look to see if it has any eggs in it. Do birds
> throw
> up jelly? I'll laugh if it turns out my daughter has thrown out her pots
> of
> jelly snacks that I bought her this week !!
>
>
The description would fit water snail egg jelly. The eggs are contained
inside a clear jelly. I have seen it occasionally on the surface of very
wet pots near the pond but never in very big blobs.
What does it taste like? :-)

Rupert (W.Yorkshire) wrote:
> The description would fit water snail egg jelly. The eggs are contained
> inside a clear jelly. I have seen it occasionally on the surface of very
> wet pots near the pond but never in very big blobs.
> What does it taste like? :-)

Are you serious? What should it taste like?

"Rupert (W.Yorkshire)" <reply [at] newsgroups.com> writes
>
>"Ade" <ade [at] nowhere.com> wrote in message
>news:iRCcg.155$Kr1.122 [at] newsfe6-win.ntli.net...
>>> Ade wrote:
>>> > A very weird appearance on the soil in some pots. Very large blobs of
>> clear
>>> > jelly just sitting on the surface of the soil. Definitely not water
>>> > retaining gel. It almost looks like it's rained jelly!
>>> > Anyone know what these blobs might be?
>>>
>>> Pixie spit. Sorry ... I will stop right now. Promise. No, I've no idea.
>>> Too early for cuckoo's spit - still not jelly enough. How trully
>>> strange. Which colour?
>>
>> Totally clear in colour. It's not a solid, so I don't think it's a
>> fungus.
>> If you try to pick it up it just runs, exactly like a half-set jelly. I'm
>> going to take a closer look to see if it has any eggs in it. Do birds
>> throw
>> up jelly? I'll laugh if it turns out my daughter has thrown out her pots
>> of
>> jelly snacks that I bought her this week !!
>>
>>
>The description would fit water snail egg jelly. The eggs are contained
>inside a clear jelly. I have seen it occasionally on the surface of very
>wet pots near the pond but never in very big blobs.
>What does it taste like? :-)
>
Are they 'very large'? - I suppose that depends what the OP means by
'very large'

Our pond snails (3 species) don't produce anything more than an inch
long and quarter inch wide.

Can you get a transparent slime mould?

http://tinyurl.co.uk/ns2h

I can remember being out on the Yorkshire Dales when I suddenly became
unable to keep my footing - feet kept slipping our from under me. The
culprit was masses of clear (IIRC) jelly in amongst the grass, which i
assumed was slime mould. This was a few feet from the cliff edge of an
old quarry, so it wasn't funny!

Only other clear gelatinous thing I've found was some frogspawn on the
lawn of some old people's bungalows a couple of days after heavy rain.
>

--
Kay

Sounds like slime mould to me.

We get it on our rockery stones sometimes.

Have you tasted it yet?

A bit like seaweed? Then its slime mould.

(just kidding)

Sue W.

--
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"Ade" <ade [at] nowhere.com> wrote in message
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>A very weird appearance on the soil in some pots. Very large blobs of clear
> jelly just sitting on the surface of the soil. Definitely not water
> retaining gel. It almost looks like it's rained jelly!
>
> Anyone know what these blobs might be?
>
>
>

"La Puce" <helene [at] rudlin.co.uk> wrote in message
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>
> Rupert (W.Yorkshire) wrote:
>> The description would fit water snail egg jelly. The eggs are contained
>> inside a clear jelly. I have seen it occasionally on the surface of very
>> wet pots near the pond but never in very big blobs.
>> What does it taste like? :-)
>
> Are you serious? What should it taste like?
>
:-)

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The Invalid <the_invalid [at] hotmail.co.uk> wrote in
news:ka7872hl8kpnkbedke15jubjcugfrdcv84 [at] 4ax.com:

> On Tue, 23 May 2006 11:47:48 GMT, "Ade" <ade [at] nowhere.com> wrote:
>
>>A very weird appearance on the soil in some pots. Very large blobs of
>>clear jelly just sitting on the surface of the soil. Definitely not
>>water retaining gel. It almost looks like it's rained jelly!
>>
>>Anyone know what these blobs might be?
>>
>>
> Strange, yesterday I found my chickens pecking at some stuff.
> I investigated and found....... several blobs of completely clear
> jelly, each one about an inch and a half.
>
> War of the worlds ??
> Day of the triffids?

Invasion Of The Body Snatchers ?

On Wed, 24 May 2006 09:49:37 +0100, The Invalid wrote:

> On Tue, 23 May 2006 16:14:27 GMT, "Sue" <nospam [at] nospam.com> wrote:
>
>>Sounds like slime mould to me.
>>
>>We get it on our rockery stones sometimes.
>>
>>Have you tasted it yet?
>>
>>A bit like seaweed? Then its slime mould.
>>
>>(just kidding)
>>
>>Sue W.
>
> The stuff I found was completely clear jelly, each blob being about an
> inch and a half or so
>
> I'll see if theres any today and try and get a pic of it.

Haven't followed the thread, but are we talking 'water retaining
granules/crystals/gel' which are added to hanging basket mixes?

--
Jim
Tyneside UK
http://www.jimscot.plus.com

Jim Scott wrote:
> Haven't followed the thread, but are we talking 'water retaining
> granules/crystals/gel' which are added to hanging basket mixes?

Pay attention at the back!!! We're talking alien invasion - we're now
planning a strategic defense manoeuvre which will save the world as we
know it. Are you in?

On 24 May 2006 02:18:48 -0700, La Puce wrote:

> Jim Scott wrote:
>> Haven't followed the thread, but are we talking 'water retaining
>> granules/crystals/gel' which are added to hanging basket mixes?
>
> Pay attention at the back!!! We're talking alien invasion - we're now
> planning a strategic defense manoeuvre which will save the world as we
> know it. Are you in?

Not sure I want to save the world 'as we know it'.
--
Jim
Tyneside UK
http://www.jimscot.plus.com

Jim Scott wrote:
> Not sure I want to save the world 'as we know it'.

<deep sigh> There's always one isn't it. <put back foil hat on>

Ade wrote:
>> Ade wrote:
>>> A very weird appearance on the soil in some pots. Very large blobs of
>>> clear jelly just sitting on the surface of the soil. Definitely not
>>> water retaining gel. It almost looks like it's rained jelly!
>>> Anyone know what these blobs might be?
>
> Totally clear in colour. It's not a solid, so I don't think it's a fungus.
> If you try to pick it up it just runs, exactly like a half-set jelly. I'm
> going to take a closer look to see if it has any eggs in it. Do birds throw
> up jelly? I'll laugh if it turns out my daughter has thrown out her pots of
> jelly snacks that I bought her this week !!

Perhaps u.r.n-h might help!

In article <15o2qgiqvls3y$.dlg [at] ID-104726.news.individual.net>,
Jim Scott <jim [at] jimscot.Xplus.com> wrote:

> > Pay attention at the back!!! We're talking alien invasion - we're now
> > planning a strategic defense manoeuvre which will save the world as we
> > know it. Are you in?
>
> Not sure I want to save the world 'as we know it'.

!!!!Excellent!!!!

"The Invalid" wrote
>
> >A very weird appearance on the soil in some pots. Very large blobs of
clear
> >jelly just sitting on the surface of the soil. Definitely not water
> >retaining gel. It almost looks like it's rained jelly!
> >Anyone know what these blobs might be?
> >

> Strange, yesterday I found my chickens pecking at some stuff.
> I investigated and found....... several blobs of completely clear
> jelly, each one about an inch and a half.

Seriously? That's exactly what I have - completely clear jelly, each an
inch or so in size, just sitting there on the soil surface. The only thing
I can think of is water retaining crystals that have somehow mysteriously
found their way onto the soil (although I only use them in hanging baskets
and haven't used them at all this year).

On Wed, 24 May 2006 13:58:45 +0100, Ade wrote
(in article <9MYcg.3917$435.3804 [at] newsfe4-gui.ntli.net>):

> "The Invalid" wrote
>>
>>> A very weird appearance on the soil in some pots. Very large blobs of
> clear
>>> jelly just sitting on the surface of the soil. Definitely not water
>>> retaining gel. It almost looks like it's rained jelly!
>>> Anyone know what these blobs might be?
>>>
>
>> Strange, yesterday I found my chickens pecking at some stuff.
>> I investigated and found....... several blobs of completely clear
>> jelly, each one about an inch and a half.
>
> Seriously? That's exactly what I have - completely clear jelly, each an
> inch or so in size, just sitting there on the soil surface. The only thing
> I can think of is water retaining crystals that have somehow mysteriously
> found their way onto the soil (although I only use them in hanging baskets
> and haven't used them at all this year).
>


Perhaps birds have taken some of the lining from hanging baskets and dropped
the jelly at the same time?



--
Sacha
www.hillhousenursery.co.uk
South Devon
email address on web site

> >> Strange, yesterday I found my chickens pecking at some stuff.
> >> I investigated and found....... several blobs of completely clear
> >> jelly, each one about an inch and a half.
> >
> > Seriously? That's exactly what I have - completely clear jelly, each an
> > inch or so in size, just sitting there on the soil surface. The only thing
> > I can think of is water retaining crystals that have somehow mysteriously
> > found their way onto the soil (although I only use them in hanging baskets
> > and haven't used them at all this year).

Wind and (later) prolonged rain?

I remember being astounded, last year, by the size and appearance of
blobs like this on a lawn I'd sown using the phb[?] Lawn in a Bucket,
which contains seed, fertiliser and crystals all mixed up together. The
gel blobs didn't appear until weeks after I'd sown it, and we'd had a
lot of rain. Maybe you have a neighbour who's used such a product?

In article <Xns97CD66A0AC77Eserialthrilla [at] 216.196.109.145>,
serialthrilla <thefreezergeezer [at] hotmail.com> writes
>
>Invasion Of The Body Snatchers ?

Bogey Snatchers I think you'll find.

--
regards andyw

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