Published: October 23, 2009 08:59 am      

Explore vegetable gardening during Gallery Sunday talk

For those interested in vegetable gardening, Layland Museum offers Autumn Vegetable Gardening at Gallery Sunday at 2:30 p.m. Sunday in the Community Garden. Ben Oefinger will speak.

Participants should bring lawn chairs to sit on.

From West Henderson, turn North on Pendell, away from the Pendell Center, to dead end in Davis.

Park on Davis Street and walk over to the garden area.

Mr. and Mrs. Duane Emmons donated this area for the use of the community.

In case of inclement weather, the program will be at the Layland.

The fall garden will produce lettuce, spinach, radishes, carrots, turnips, rutabagas, broccoli, cabbage and more.

The best thing to do is combine flowers, vegetables and herbs in one area.

Only organic methods will be explored. Oefinger will give specific tips on how to have a garden that produces.

The benefits to such gardening are many and varied.

Every person can raise some vegetables. Digging in the dirt frees the mind and brings satisfaction. It is good physically, mentally, emotionally, and spiritually.

Oefinger is a long-time Cleburne community activist.

He taught Latin at Cleburne High and served as principal before retirement.

He worked in the bond election for the Johnson County Campus of Hill College and has been elected Man of the Year here.

He is a Bible teacher and member of St. Mark United Methodist Church with wife Carla.

He is a Johnson County Master Gardener who teaches classes and helps beautify the county.

His own yard abounds with all manner of plants.

For information call 817-645-0940.