Woman finds lost wedding ring on a carrot

Cue the "24-carrot" puns.

A Swedish woman recently found the wedding ring she lost 16 years ago. It was growing on a carrot in her garden.

Lena Påhlsson lost the ring in her kitchen in 1995 after removing it during a holiday baking session. Despite a kitchen-wide search — she and her husband, Ola, even tore up their floorboards — Lena accepted that her ring, which she designed herself, was gone for good.

This October, as she was gathering vegetables from her garden, she pulled up a small carrot.

"As the carrot was so small, she was about to throw it away when she realized what it was that appeared to be 'growing' around the finger-sized vegetable," The Local reports.

The white gold ring with seven small diamonds was back.

"Our daughter Anna was at home at the time and she heard an almighty scream from the garden," Ola said of his wife's discovery.

The couple still don't know how the ring ended up in the garden. They speculate it either fell into the compost bin and was later spread over the vegetable patch, or that the family's sheep consumed it along with kitchen scraps.

The ring needs resizing — Lena's finger has grown in the 16 years since it disappeared — so it is being kept "in a safe place" until the overjoyed woman can wear it again.

"I had given up hope. Now that I have found the ring again…I want to be able to use it," Lena said.