White House Garden Starting Late?

I got my spinach and peas in last week and the Obamas are only now digging up their lawn? Actually, it's just the right time in Washington, D.C., to begin gardening.

If you look at the plan, the garden is friggin' huge for one family. They'll have a ton of lettuce and spinach in about 8 weeks, depending on their seedlings (which I assume they are using). I bet tomatoes will follow the greens.

Here's the garden plan if you didn't see it in the Times. And who is advising them? Good question...

Comments

[Anna]

An article in the newspaper said the garden will also supply some of the produce for White House dinners, not just the First Family's meals.

[Labid Hinenfold]

Maybe the Obamas have participated in a few situations you haven't, so what they've been doing likely trumps a facile, self-referential, giggling, don't-you-dare-save-the-planet-without-me type getting in his spinach and peas and crowing about it. You know, you sustainable squirrels can actually write on a subject without littering the text with self-referential digression, just like real squirrels can cross a street without running back into traffic--just have to try... Yet you choose not to. Quite sad.

[Sam Fromartz]

Labid, thank you for the enlightening comments