EDMONTON—A woman who lost her engagement ring 13 years ago while weeding her garden on the family farm is wearing it proudly again after her daughter-in-law pulled it from the ground on a misshapen carrot.

Mary Grams, 84, said she can’t believe the lucky carrot actually grew through and around the diamond ring she had long given up hope of ever finding again.

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“I feel relieved and happy inside,” Grams said Tuesday from her home in Camrose, southeast of Edmonton.

“It grew into the carrot. I still can’t figure it out.”

Grams said she never told her husband, Norman, who died five years ago, that she had lost the ring, but she mentioned it to her son.

Once she realized it was missing she spent hours looking through the garden for the keepsake, but to no avail.

“I got on my hands and knees and looked all over and I could not find it. I looked for days and days.”

She eventually bought another one.

Colleen Daley, Gram’s daughter-in-law, found the ring while harvesting carrots for supper with her dog Billy at the farm near Armena, Alta., where Grams used to live. The farm has been in the family for 105 years.

Daley said while she was pulling the carrots she noticed one them looked kind of strange.

She was going to feed it to her dog but decided to keep it and just threw it in her pail.

When she was washing the carrots she noticed the ring and spoke to her husband Brian Grams, Mary’s son, about what she had found.

“All of a sudden there was this sparkling thing around it and about two inches down the ring had cut into the carrot,” Brian told the Star over the phone.

“Mom had lost her ring several years ago and for some reason a carrot happened to germinate right through the ring and it grew around it.” He said it was stuck there pretty tightly.

“Mary had kept it a secret that she had lost her ring,” Daley said.

They quickly called Mary in Camrose about their find.

“I said we found your ring in the garden. She couldn’t believe it,” Daley said. “It was so weird that the carrot grew perfectly through that ring.”

Grams said she was eager to try the ring on again after so many years.

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“You have a kind of a happy feeling. I don’t know how to really describe it, but you don’t expect that after so many years,” she said, speaking to the Star.

With family looking on she washed the ring with a little soap to get the dirt off.

She’s since swapped the replacement ring she had been wearing for years with her long-lost one. She said her family couldn’t believe that the ring had been found so many years later, with the garden being worked on regularly.

“It still fits and I don’t have to go to the jeweller to get it sized either,” Grams told the Star on the phone. “I don’t think I’ll wear two.”

—With files from Megan Dolski

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