Garden Plan

Materials

Immediately:

• String Trimmer
• Seeds:
  • Carrots
  • Cabbage
  • Sweet Mama Squash
  • Melons (any 90 day)
  • French Filet Green Beans
  • Black Eye Peas (cover crop?)
  • Mung Beans (cover crop?)
  • Sweet Corn
  • Swiss Chard
  • Cilantro
  • Basil

Sources:

• Melons: Floyd Hagerman/Linda, ask Marcin for email or phone number
• Amish: Jamesport, possible seed sellers:
  • Map: http://www.jamesport-mo.com/jam/Amish_Country_Map.pdf
  • Chamber of commerce: 660 490-6606
  • H&M Country store: 660 684-6848
  • Kramer-Yoder Store: 660 684-6793
• KS Food Circle, search seed producers/heritage growers
• Seed library near here?
• Herbs - once plants develop, propagate (chives, rosemary, basil, thyme)

Essential:

• Manure
  • From Teddy
• Nitrogen-fixing shrubs
  • cuttings from natives around?
  • Partridge Pea
  • False Wild Indigo
  • Climbing rose (on site)
  • Elaeagnus angustifolia (on site)

In Time:

• Compost (from pile on-site)
• Worm Tea/Castings (start vermiculture)
• Bio Char (from trees on-site)
  • Gabi needs to weld a bio char kiln out of one of the old drums
• Innoculate dedicated mushroom logs in creekbed

Requires bulldozer:

• Root Cellar/Shroom House
• Dig Swales and berms (hugle!)
• Dig ponds (water loving natives, watercress, cat tails)

Book Resources (.PDF) from Graham