OK, now I remember you. Did you have a different handle a few years ago? Thanks again for hauling that engine...I still have it in reserve, since my old original dieselengine just keeps on working.
About 60 years ago, my Dad had a chicken farm with several thousand layers and also did some truck gardening in the Greenacres area. My parents worked very hard at trying to farm, but didn"t have enough income from the farm to really "make it". My Dad worked at various other jobs and my Mom taught school some of the time to keep them going. Pretty rough times financially for my family. After about 10 years of trying, we moved off that acreage and lived in the more urban area of old Greenacres. In 1959, my Parents were able to buy the small ranch South of the Valley, and I finished growing up there. I still live on 20 acres of that property.
When I was a little kid, there were large gardens all over the Spokane Valley. Gardens did very well there, and there was a well developed ditch water system that brought water from Liberty and Newman Lakes to many areas of the eastern part of the valley. But with many people gardening in that area, I suppose that selling produce was a problem, since everybody had some. The gardens we had were really incredibly productive.
Later the ditch water systems were all removed and pressurized piped water became what was available for irrigation. And more and more areas of the Valley became filled with houses, instead of gardens or orchards. It is a real shame that this incredibly productive farming area is now wasted on suburban housing. But that is the way it is.
I still think that 6 acres of garden is a whole lot of garden! It would be really hard to keep ahead of the weeds in that big of a plot. I sure hate Morning Glory!
One last thing. Lots of the Eastern part of the Valley had apple orchards on it years ago. In those days they used sprays that included arsenic and other heavy metals to control insects that bothered apples. Unlike the organic sprays that came later, the heavy metals tend not to break down over time. If your ground used to be an orchard, you might want to do soil tests to see if there are heavy metals there that might come back to cause you trouble in your for sale produce. Hope that concern is not a reality, and your gardens do great. Good to reconnect with you again. Hal.
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