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| The Spackmans, at far left, and a big turnout of club members. |
Our garden club recently toured the gardens (plural!), greenhouse, and orchards of Mary and Brian Spackman. What a great tour!
Brian and Mary walked 37 nosy club members (plus a few hangers-on) around their five acres of food-producing nirvana: many garden plots (micro-climates in use), a home-built greenhouse using mostly re-purposed materials (example: a swimming pool water heater is used to heat the greenhouse using underground water lines), fruit trees and shade trees (English and black walnut trees everywhere), bee hives, chickens and ducks, pigs and pigeons - the Spackmans have mightily labored over the previous 30-some years. Mary provided us with home-produced snacks and recipes, while Brian answered about a million questions from neighboring gardeners and homesteaders – I watched a lot of folks writing down good ideas and suggestions.
As a bonus, Mary and Brian offered club members free red raspberry and horse radish starts – and then there was the drawing for the potted, 2-year-old hazelnut trees – all in all, a great evening – and the mosquitos mostly left us alone!
Thanks to Mary and Brian for the memorable evening.
Oh, and club member Joe Gannon is looking for volunteers to grow sunflowers for his daughter's fall wedding - if you have a empty spot in your garden, and would like some free seeds, you can call me at 509-292-0326, and I'll hook you up!
See you at July's garden tour,
Jim
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