Garden Tour 3/14/09 at Lisa Beaumont's

We visited Lisa's magnificent gardens this morning.  You won't find more inspiration anywhere.  Lisa truly is a master gardener as well as builder/bee keeper and chicken landlord!  We picked her brain clean.  Now hopefully we can use that knowledge to get our garden going!  

Here are some of Lisa's favorite resources:

-two favorite seed catalogs:  Johnny's Select Seeds and Territorial Seed Company

-Lisa wants to order large chickens and would invite anyone to join her in her order - McMurray Hatchery (give her a call if you would be interested)

-Bees - Dadant

-Straw - Mary's Tack

-Berries - Indiana Berry (favorite raspberry is Heritage which is Everbearing)

-good small rotary tiller is "Mantis" - you can order it online.

-BJ's Rentals - rollers for laying Decomposed Granite between your beds to walk on

-Decomposed Granite (tan) Evergreen Nursery

-Soaker hoses - Home Depot

-Top Soil - try A-1 Soil (Nancy will report back about where to get good top soil)

-Motivating books to read about growing your own food:  Barbara Kingslover's "Animal, Vegetable Miracle" and Michael Pollan's "Omnivore's Dilemma".  Mostly it will change the way you eat.  

-Grapes recommended to grow - Thompson seedless Grapes

I can't wait to see the pictures of Lisa's gardens and her bees being hived from her garden shed wall.  It's really amazing.  Thanks Naomi for posting.  I'm excited to see Nancy's garden next month and learn all about her food storage and 72-hour kits.  See you all later!