Sounds like a type of time-release fertilizer I used to use.

These have been scattered by alien space probes. The ones that land in potted plants swell into tan or yellow spheres that, when popped, release spores for the next life-stage, parasitizing humans and causing them to ullulate.

Or else, it is the coating of an Osmocote pellet that remains after the fertilizer has dissolved and percolated into the soil.

Ullulate? For real? Where can I get one of those??????

Oh good. I was afraid they were some kind of rose eating insect eggs. Alien probes? Yahoo, I LOVE space aliens.

I had a baby toad in my potting soil a couple of weeks ago. I put him carefully into the garden. Hope he's okay.

LOL - I believe they have also infested my neighbors dog.

All kidding aside....I think I know what it might be...we have some right now in our front mulch, and had some last week in our back beds & also have had it in past years....it's a protist that often grows in moist mulch.

Google the terms "dog vomit slime mold" or "scrambled egg slime mold." I did this for my neighbor a few weeks ago when she came over to complain that she thought our cat had vomited in her flower bed (she has been complaining about many things to do with our cat lately!)

When I saw it I told her it wasn't vomit, but some kind of fungus or something....so I googled it. Went back with info to back it up....it said it had to be shoveled out of the bed, but won't respond to bleach or other fungal killers...wasn't dangerous to kids or animals...just ugly!
I do remember that sometimes it will ooze out a reddish-purple liquid that looks disgusting....described in articles as looking like cherry cobbler.
Let me know if this looks like what you have!
:0) Phyl

Do you have slugs? Their eggs are small spheres that look kind of like fertilizer. There are lots of pictures if you google "slug eggs".

Or it could just be leftover fertilizer like Osmacote.

Living in new construction, over the years I have found some very interesting stuff buried in the yard. Some were very unpleasant. Let's just say that they probably didn't have a port-o-potty here or they preferred soda bottles. The bricks and large gravel are always fun to dig out of a hole.

I went out this morning and found THIS had hatched from the eggs.

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Shouldn'ta squeezed it! That triggered the whole lot of them!!!!

What IS that?

BTW, we were digging in a new spot today and you guessed it, dug up a whole brick. There are no bricks in our house. I have no idea where they came from.

It doesn't look like vomit fungus. The objects aren't together like the pictures of the slug eggs. I'm thinking it might be Osmocote. I know some of the nurserys around here put it in the pots.

Pelicanhead, are you trying to pull our leg over here LOL! that pic you showed is a sea hare (sea slug) from a different web page and would not be growing in your garden...

Sea-slug pictured 3rd row down

You will have to send your own photo of what's in your garden... I bet they may be slug eggs (but the garden slug, not a sea slug)

oh, if I found that in my garden I would immediately find a new hobby...after the paramedics left. ICK