Overall, it was a good and productive year. All that remains are a few carrots and beets. The rest of the patch received a light till to knock down the late season weeds, and a top dressing of shredded leaves. No winter rye this year as we needed a place to park the leaves over the winter. In other news, the strawberry patch was tilled in preparation for a renovation next spring.
While we've been very lucky over the years with only small varmints attacking the patch (rabbits and ground hogs), the last couple of years has seen our first deer damage. It used to be primarily in the fall as the local herds churned due to the rut and hunting. But now it's all seasons.
Time had finally come for a proper ag quality perimeter fence. It was a three day operation with corner posts installed and a QFE entrance gate constructed. But glad it's done. In retrospect we should have done this twenty years ago.
