Mar 20, 2009 2:12pm
What’s In the White House Garden?
EmailToday is the day — they’re breaking ground for the White House vegetable garden. While the cause is noble — it’s ‘green’, economically smart — what everyone really wants to know is what will be in it? Here you go: Anise, Thai basil, berries, spinach, chard, black kale, arugula, lettuce (red romaine, green oak leaf, butter-head, red leaf, galactic), rhubarb, kale, hives for honey, hot peppers, cilantro, onions, shell peas, shallots, oregano, garlic, dill, parsley, chives, rosemary, sage and thyme. And they’re composting at the White House! There will be 55 varieties of vegetables in all — planted from organic seeds costing $200 (and that includes the mulch).
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Bravo Obama family gardeners. This is a great example for all. Every American that can should grow something. While Michelle is tending the garden the president needs to tend the Food and Drug Administration making sure that there are enough well trained protectors of our nation’s food supply.
Richard Ellmyer
Organic Gardener
Portland, Oregon
Posted by: Richard Ellmyer | March 20, 2009, 3:31 pm 3:31 pm
Neighborhood gardens are a wonderful idea, and I think the administration should use this opportunity to promote them.
What would be even cooler is if they put in a windmill or solar panels. Turn the White House into the Green House.
Posted by: reason | March 20, 2009, 3:41 pm 3:41 pm
Good for you Number 1 Lady -
Everyone should grow a garden
if they can,its a religous
experience healthy and wise.
Blessungs – bobknab
Posted by: bob knab | March 20, 2009, 3:46 pm 3:46 pm
I am all for this. I grow my own stuff and eat organic as much as possible.
Posted by: Huh | March 20, 2009, 3:49 pm 3:49 pm
reason:”What would be even cooler is if they put in a windmill or solar panels.”
There is already a 9kW PV array on a maintenance shed (barn?) generating electricity, and there is some thermal solar to keep the pool warm at the Whitehouse. The National Park Service has control of much of the grounds and is quite progressive on this sort of thing, and President Bush was not hostile to “being green” as a strictly personal virtue.
Posted by: jhw539 | March 20, 2009, 4:04 pm 4:04 pm
esealy:”And just who is going to do all the work…Oh, secret service guards?”
I suppose in your fantasy world the Secret Service is in charge of mowing the lawn and doing the dishes too…
Posted by: jhw539 | March 20, 2009, 4:18 pm 4:18 pm
I have been gardening for years!!!
This is a great idea for all Americans!!!!
It’s cost effective, relaxing and soothing to the soul!!!
Have fun America!!!
Posted by: sisterdearest09 | March 20, 2009, 4:18 pm 4:18 pm
People should not be fooled into believing the only costs are seeds and time. Depending on what you grow, it may not be cheaper than buying. My experience with tomatoes was expensive – plants, cages, potting soil, pots (I live in an apt, and do not have free dirt). It’s a health thing, but price-wise I do better at farmers markets.
Posted by: Christian | March 20, 2009, 4:36 pm 4:36 pm
They need a couple of goats. That way they don’t need to moe the lawn and the milk is healthier than cows milk. I would love to donate a few goats to their noble cause.
Posted by: unshrub | March 20, 2009, 4:39 pm 4:39 pm
And just who is going to do all the work…making the rows, pulling weeds, checking the soil for chemicals, harvesting…I would be it’s not anyone in the Hussein household. Oh, secret service guards?
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Have a nice day; sounds like you need it
Posted by: Thinking | March 20, 2009, 4:43 pm 4:43 pm
yeaaaaaaaaaaaaa i like taters
Frank Furter
Obamas Special Olympics Gardener
Anytown USA
Posted by: o-DUMB-ah and his cabinet of clowns | March 20, 2009, 4:57 pm 4:57 pm
So will ABC be following this garden to see just who will water and weed it???
I know who won’t be doing it. That’s right, Michelle. Who wears a black dress like that for planting a garden. Someone who has no intentions of working and growing one, that’s for sure.
The people I feel sorry for are us, the taxpayer. Now we have to pay the grounds keepers to keep Michelle’s garden. I do feel sorry for the grounds keepers too, imagine what she will do when the plants develope a fungus or bugs or don’t produce anything. She’ll take it out on them.
Also, who exactley is going to pick and cook these vegtables? I know who it won’t be, again it won’t be Michelle.
So just what kind of an example is she setting here. The ‘do as I say, not as I do’ kind.
Posted by: Trace | March 21, 2009, 2:15 pm 2:15 pm