Posted on 03/24/2009 8:09:41 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
It seems everyone is getting into gardens.
First Lady Michelle Obama held a groundbreaking Friday for a White House Kitchen Garden and today California First Lady Maria Shriver announced that a similar garden would be planted on the Capitol Park grounds in Sacramento.
Shriver's office is still working out details, but the 800-square-foot "demonstration garden" will be on the east side of the Capitol building and will be planted in May. It will replace an existing flower bed.
"We're going to see how that will work. If it's successful we'll talk about expanding it," said Francisco Castillo, Shriver's spokesman. He said it would not be like the "huge" garden planted at San Francisco's Civic Center last year.
Berkeley chef Alice Waters, the grand dame of edible gardens, will help with the project.
(Excerpt) Read more at sfgate.com ...
May is pretty late to start a garden in CA.
Put the homeless to work in the garden instead of paying state employees $75,000 a year to do it. Let the homeless earn some self respect if they have any sense of what that means.
“May is pretty late to start a garden in CA.”
Especially with this global warming.
I guess this is the new trend. Like none of us have ever planted a garden and they are going to show us how it’s done.
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