A Swedish woman who lost her wedding ring 16 years ago was amazed to find it - around a carrot growing in her garden. Lena Paahlsson had taken off the white gold ring before a Christmas baking session with her daughters in 1995, but it later disappeared from her kitchen worktop. After looking everywhere, and even pulling up floorboards in the search, Mrs Paahlsson told the Dagens Nyheter daily she had given up on ever seeing the ring again. But then she spotted something shiny while picking the last of the season's carrots in her garden. The family thinks the ring must have fallen into the sink back in 1995 and been mixed with potato peels that were composted or fed to the sheep, since all the soil in the garden comes from composted vegetables and sheep dung. The ring no longer fits Mrs Paahlsson, but she plans to have it enlarged. "I had given up hope. Now that I have found the ring again... I want to be able to use it," she said.