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--- garden:intro:2019 [2025/01/01 00:32] – [Trouble with animals] davidbac
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 ==== Dale's dahlias ====
-{{ :garden:intro:pix:img_4120.jpg?direct&320|}}Dale enlarged the section of dahlias. We talked about his gardening part of the Fall City Garden.\\
+{{ :garden:intro:2019:img_4120.jpg?direct&320|}}Dale enlarged the section of dahlias. We talked about his gardening part of the Fall City Garden.\\
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 ==== Well established grape vines ====
-{{ :garden:intro:pix:img_3910.jpg?direct&200|}}Grape vines at the Farm ready for a productive year/\\
+{{ :garden:intro:2019:img_3910.jpg?direct&200|}}Grape vines at the Farm ready for a productive year/\\
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 === Pigs in a pen ===
-{{ :garden:intro:pix:img_3841.jpg?direct&200|}}{{ :garden:intro:pix:img_3933.jpg?direct&200|}}A renter of a part of the farmland built a pen and brought pigs to live there. These forceful and inquisitive creatures liked to escape from the rudimentary pen and root around any uncovered ground - in my garden among the grape vines!\\
+{{ :garden:intro:2019:img_3841.jpg?direct&200|}}{{ :garden:intro:pix:img_3933.jpg?direct&200|}}A renter of a part of the farmland built a pen and brought pigs to live there. These forceful and inquisitive creatures liked to escape from the rudimentary pen and root around any uncovered ground - in my garden among the grape vines!\\
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 === Marauding cattle ===
-{{ :garden:intro:pix:img_1668.jpg?direct&400 |}}almost regularly, cattle who broke through (weak) fences in a neighbors property next to the farm visited and enjoyed trampling corn plants as they scavenged the ripening cobs. Fences were seldom fixed and a temporary fence failed to stop the raiders.
+{{ :garden:intro:2019:img_1668.jpg?direct&720 |}}Almost regularly, cattle who broke through (weak) fences in a neighbors property next to the farm visited and enjoyed trampling corn plants as they scavenged the ripening cobs. Fences were seldom fixed and a temporary fence failed to stop the raiders.
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-Late in the season the renter brought in cattle who, as such will purposefully do as the neighbor's herd, feasted on leaves from grape vines and ....
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+{{ :garden:intro:2019:img_3003.jpg?direct&400|}}Late in the season the renter brought in cattle who, just as the neighbor's herd, broke through fences and feasted on leaves from grape vines or corn stalks. One time a calf got stuck inside the hoop house and damaged a number of tomato plants. Herds demolished corn crops several times!\\
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 ===== It was a good year! =====
-There were more challenges than in the past. By many measures it was a good year:
+There were more challenges than in the past and some were real downers. But by reasonal measures it was a good year:
   * I harvested more than 1,600 pounds of produce.
   * I donated over 1,400 pounds to two local food banks.
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 It comes as no surprise to me that my body is tired. I was working in the gardens well into October. I am taking time to recuperate.
+View a [[garden:intro:2019:gallery|gallery of 2019 photos]].