Rogue Cows!
Have you ever seen the damage a herd of rogue cows can do to a vineyard and a garden?
We were spared disaster when a neighbor’s herd of Black Angus cows got out and went roaming – through our vineyard and garden. If you have been reading our story for awhile, you know that our milk cows, Buttercup and Emme love grapevines and grapes. Apparently, the Black Angus that investigated our vineyard are either not as fond of grapes or they were just not hungry. They did eat some of the Roussanne grapes and knocked off some of the canopy from the Aglianico and Montepulciano, but nothing to amount to severe damage.
The garden however, did suffer. Especially the asparagus. While they did leave some ferns, other were eaten or stepped on and broken.
They also seemed to enjoy the beans and peas.
I held back tears as I looked, but then had a consoling thought: Better the garden than the vineyard!
So, John and the boys herded the herd down the rode, back to the neighbor’s pasture. All – 7 cows, 1 bull and about 7 calves went peaceably.
I hope you didn’t lose too much of the asparagus! But you are right, definitely better to lose some of your garden rather than the any of the vineyard.
Rotten ol cows.. 😉 The asparagus will probably perk back up & grow back where they ate it, hopefully. Hopefully they didnt eat the beans & peas to the nub… Its a wild life. 😉
When I was a lil’ bitty boy, mom and us kids were cutting thru the country, when we came upon a stray cow by the road. She said, jump out and open up the trunk and I’ll backup and knock him off his feet and into the trunk. Then we will take him home and put him in the freezer. That was 45 yrs ago, and I still laugh my butt off, at the thought of that cow, laying on it’s back, in our trunk……
Funny, Ron! I definitely felt like doing something like that – but didn’t!!!