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Saturday, July 07, 2012 northwest rain Salem, Oregon

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Bad news in the lower pumpkin patch. After I was done weeding around the potatoes, I saw something that didn't look quite right on the 1495. DEER.....They ate every single vine tip on the secondary vines. I had been pinching off tertiary vines off of this plant, so it may as well be a goner. They started after a field pumpkin about 20ft away, but the damage to that was minimal, just a couple secondary tips were gone. The main vine tip on it (the 119 Starr) was just fine, I had it covered with a half round piece of old cattle fencing with shade cloth attached to it. Most of the deer tracks were around a cherry tree in the corner, that's what they were really after. All the branches on the lower part of the tree were devestated.
 



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