Saturday, 23 July 2022
Master Gardeners of Grays Harbor and Pacific Counties present:
We parked in such a charming Aberdeen neighborhood that it will get its own post after this one.
Jake and Bertie’s vegetable garden lives up to the ideal of the Master Gardener organization’s mission to educate about gardening.
The clever signage that brings more than one season into the picture was thought up by Terri of Markham Farm and would be a good addition to any garden tour, but especially to kitchen gardens.
The green house Jake built is enviably large, and the little shed is an inspirational upcycled construction.
After perusing the veg beds with envy…so much better than mine!…I noticed a sign on the gate and realized that the community garden mentioned as a bonus to the tour was right next door, so I went through.
One of the organizers of the community garden handed me a flyer and asked if I was someone she used to know. She called me by a name I have not used since 1980 and I thought, did I know you in high school?? But her friend, with the coincidental same name, was someone she knew more recently than that. My doppelgänger. Our ensuing conversation about the garden was so interesting that I failed to take many photos, just these. (The ducks had made themselves scarce.)
Terri had recently helped with the community garden by digging out and planting this strawberry bed.
I learned that there is going to be a meadow garden including some unusual plants, and saw the plant propagation bed with so much interest that I took no photos.
Martha and her partner live in this darling house right between the vegetable garden and the community garden. It reminded me so much of my grandmas house, and she said it reminded her of her grandma’s house, as well.
Then I returned to the Jake and Bertie’s garden and had a good conversation with Jake. I told him his veg put mine to shame and we discussed how our long cold spring had made for vegetable gardening frustration this year.
Meanwhile, Allan had not realized there was another garden through the gate, so he didn’t see the community garden at all. I thought he’d toured it while I’d been chatting. It wasn’t till we got home that he asked why we had not been visited the community garden. I said I had, next door to Veggie Delight, he said that was impossible because they had different addresses. I had to turn to Google earth to clarify the address confusion. Thus we didn’t get the usual two person view of the community garden.
I want to live on this block with a big lot and be neighbors with Jake and Bertie and help with the community garden. Next: a tour of the neighborhood and beyond.
Tangly Cottage Gardening 
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