Vegetable Gardens Growing In Popularity [Michelle Obama Effect?]

Sacramento Bee ^ | April 12, 2009

[RushIsMyTeddyBear]

The ‘ho’ doesn’t know how to hold a ‘hoe’.

[RandallFlagg]

Good. Glad to see the first lady encouraging this hobby.
Now, they won’t give me any crap for my garden.

My...TOBACCO garden...

MUAAHAHAHAHAHAAA!!!

[Lizavetta]

Hey, I'm near Hwy 50. Where are you, roughly?

Garden Valley? Mt. Aukum? Do tell!

[antiunion person]

Michelle O'bell Obama spent just enough out in ‘her’ garden to get some great propaganda pictures she could give to her friends in the MSM.
People have always had gardens. In times like there and times in the past when purchasing vegetables was expensive, people increase having gardens. With her husbands help and the help of the eviro-whackos, the cost to grow food, the cost to fertilizer (if you can get it), the cost of transporting food to stores and the cost of driving to the stores to get to the food will increase so much, the only way to get food will be to grow it yourself.
The comment someone posted about the Chinese growing their own food is true. In addition to that, it got to the point even they grew their own food, soldiers would raid their farms to feed themselves.

[antiunion person]

I wonder if the Obama’s are growing watermelons??? Sorry, I couldn't help but ask that racist question.

[Will88]

More people have been taking up gardening for a few years now. Last year several common seeds I use were sold out by late May in farmer’s coops, and the old basic seed racks that are seen in many stores had many empty slots, very unusual. The seed shortage was fairly common conversation while Rush coordinated his “Operation Chaos” last Spring, long before anyone had even been nominated for president.

If this undue credit for the Obamas is irritating (and it is), you should be watching Geraldo tonight mentioning Obama’s critical decisions making in the pirate crisis every half a chance he gets. Just stopped watching the pathetic suck-up even though I was interested in the discussion of the rescue of the Captain.

[Kirkwood]

“At her modest south Sacramento home, Yemanya Napue tore up her backyard lawn to plant an extensive vegetable garden. In the front yard, she squeezed blueberries, herbs and fruit trees into a flower garden to create an edible landscape. “

LOL! It takes years for fruit trees and shrubs to bear a crop. At least the herbs should grow.

[caseinpoint]

I don’t live near Highway 50. I live in Central California in farming country, though. Tomato capital of the WORLD, dude! However, during a trip back west across Nevada along 80, a fire near Reno shunted us down to 50 and it was lovely country. We tend to think of Nevada as a big sagebrush patch but there are some beautiful valleys there. Heading back across Nevada in a few days to deliver daughter to college. Her academic track puts her in college April through December.

[WOSG]

I call BS on this.
“Vegetable gardens growing in popularity” - is at best a guess based on anecdotes. What horribly low-standard journalism.

Typical MSM drive-by, lets invent news article.

[smoothsailing]

h/t to RedState

[PhilosopherStones]

Haven’t quite decided yet. Lot’s of nice parcels still available (for cheap). Forgive me for not advertizing them on FR.

Yeah, I think there’s going to be a major red county/rural retrenchment as we figure out how to take our country back.

[SAJ]

In serious need of filing bankruptcy, more like.

Financial and intellectual.

[Will88]

“Vegetable gardens growing in popularity” - is at best a guess based on anecdotes

Gardening really has been growing rapidly for two or three years. I think all the contaminated food from China caused many to start growing more of their own, plus economic worries were already affecting behavior last year.

But the big jump in gardening definitely took off last Spring, and to some extent in years before 2008. Just a lot of people decided it was a good idea, long before Michelle staged here photo op.

[Will88]

I think most of us have overlooked the biggest reason of all for the increase in gardening: the high cost of fuel during parts of 2007 and 2008 which caused substantial increases in the costs of most all food items. That caused a big surge in gardening during 2008, and some before 2008.

Absolutely nothing to do with MO.

[MOgirl]

Hello,

You are right, I had absolutely nothing to do with it...

:)

MOgirl

[caseinpoint]

Hey, I got a generator, several months of food, multifuel cook stove, a husband who can machine anything and fix any car, and a dad who can grow anything anywhere. Tell you what, just private email me the location and we can be a Freeper Nation. (Actually, we’s several years away from retirement but keep some land in mind for us, k?)

[Snoopers-868th]

Oh, spare me the bull$hit. It has nothing to do with Blackie-O.

[DannyTN]

Fear of rampant inflation and/or shortages.

[Right Wing Assault]

Uh, no. She is one of the last ones on board.

[MantillaMilitant]

“Let them eat kale”