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It's pea-picking time in the White House vegetable garden

12:13 AM Wed, Jun 17, 2009 |
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Politico offers a glimpse of some healthy-looking snap peas in the new White House veggie garden as Michelle Obama and helpers from Bancroft Elementary School in Washington harvest lettuce and eat peas off the vines.

The occasion was the White House Garden Harvest Party (here's a transcript of the First Lady's remarks). Paul Bedard of U.S. News & World Report blogs it: First Lady Michelle Obama, Gardener in Chief.


I am sore today from spending all yesterday afternoon planting a big flower garden where a tree used to stand -- it came down in a storm last summer. I've taken some photos, but I've been too busy to blog them. And I'd rather see yours. I'm late of course, still planting seeds, but the vegetable garden is a few weeks ahead -- peas are flowering, not yet ready.

We're trying square-foot-gardening this year -- neat, intensive raised beds in grids, with tomatoes, cucumbers and squash on trellises.

Nature is usually sprawls in my yard, but this year the focus is food production. This morning I forced myself to prune the tomato plants severely -- all the stems below the first flowers, so the energy will go instead to the growing stem. These are the lush, healthy leaves I've been encouraging to grow, so this required as steely a resolve as I could muster on a sunny June morning.

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