Vegetable plot dig unearths crop of vintage bottles
"There's loads of brewery ones - and little jars like the ones from Boots the Chemist with little tablespoon marks on the side, and one find was like a bottle of hair gel with a comb marking on it - where you dip the comb in and wash your hair.
"I emailed some auction places but there's too much to go through. We wheeled them up to the back of the garden - some of them had liquids in them so we had to be careful."
Zoe added: "We've got loads of flowers there now- rather than grow veg because of the liquids we found. We knew the area had glass in it because when it rains glass keeps on popping up.
"Part of you wants to keep going but where do you cut off? It got to the point where it's level and that's enough.
"There's easy 1000 little jars and bottles which have come out."
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