Posted on 06/22/2009 8:59:48 AM PDT by dennisw
I don’t believe SE Ohio has had anything near the same weather as we have had in DC this spring.
“I don’t think they planted seeds.”
They didn’t they were already plants with a good head start that I saw in the photo op.
Notice the wasteproduct lib Susan Reimer didn’t bother to pull a Burpee’s catalog and check how long it takes to mature from seeds to harvest. She’s been caught before writing bad columns, the whole Sunpaper is worthless and shrinking from what I’ve heard, I won’t buy it.
The garden was planted 90 days before the harvest and the longest time to mature was about 80 days, most less. I didn’t check the specific varieties, didn’t have that info, I had to check all the Burpee varieties.
0bamma and Michelle must be Mexican
There is no reason their garden couldn’t have grown as it is shown, what with the probably thousands of dollars they spent on it.
What is most certainly true is that we paid hundreds of dollars per plant when it was all said and done.
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The bulk of that money seems to have been spent on the best transplants money can buy. Word was sent out to DC area greenhouses. Michele and Hussein spent a few minutes sticking them into the garden soil. They left their gofers & stooges to complete the task and do the weeding watering and hoeing
This is obviously grounds for impeachment
Corn on the COLB
Maybe that’s their secret to growing vegetables very quickly!
NBC News and news services
updated 7:18 a.m. PT, Sat., March. 21, 2009
WASHINGTON - Twenty-six elementary schoolchildren wielded shovels, rakes, pitchforks and wheelbarrows to help first lady Michelle Obama break ground on a produce and herb garden on the White House grounds.
Among the crops to be planted in the coming weeks are spinach, broccoli, various lettuces, kale and collard greens, and assorted herbs. The planted produce will rotate with the seasons.
The first harvest is expected by late April.
Assistant chef Sam Kass says some of the produce will be cooked in the White House kitchen and some will be given to a local soup kitchen where Mrs. Obama recently helped serve lunch.
Mrs. Obama told the students that her family has talked about planting such a garden since they moved to the White House. She said her daughters, Malia and Sasha, like fresh vegetables better.
Mrs. Obama then led a cheer with the children, shouting, "Let's hear it for vegetables!" and "Let's hear it for fruits!"
The first lady joked with reporters, telling them to stop taking pictures and start shoveling.
They did show them planting some pretty mature plants. I did the same with my mater plants and already have little green maters. It just depends on whether the weather cooperates and you don’t get a late frost.
Other then the peas theres nothing in that garden to put away for winter. Not much of a garden.
They've probably never grown much of anything either.
Nope not a thing! Most everything that was planted will be gone when the summer heat hits DC.
Nope not a thing! Most everything that was planted will be gone when the summer heat hits DC.
There should be little difference when you are in the same planting zone as we are. My plants are doing great but no way are the tomatoes anywhere near ready to harvest.
Gotta love that N2O.
That is true, but there were no tomatoes, that was a mistake in the article.
Do you think chlorine holds back plant growth?
I don't know, but if you've ever spilled swimming pool water on nearby vegetation you can see that the result isn't good. And if you compare plants that are watered by rain with those that are watered by city water, you can see a remarkable difference.
Last year I started collecting water in a rain barrel and watering my garden with it, and this seemed to make a very substantial difference. I'm not a biochemist, but the only thing I can postulate is that the rainwater doesn't have chlorine in it. Don't have access to a well right now so I can't test that.
The truth is that I have some vegetation that isn't doing so well because there has been so much rain, and these specimens are drowning.
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