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--- garden:intro:2019 [2025/01/01 00:33] – [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&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. And they loved the leaves from the grape vines! 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]].