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1 posted on 04/12/2009 6:25:24 PM PDT by Steelfish
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It has nothing to do with her. Sales of seeds and guns WAY up even before she stepped foot in the WH.


2 posted on 04/12/2009 6:26:44 PM PDT by anniegetyourgun
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Nothing new...


4 posted on 04/12/2009 6:28:33 PM PDT by darkwing104 (Lets get dangerous)
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Vegetable Gardens Growing In Popularity [Michelle Obama Effect?]

Ah grow up..
Peoplehave been planting gardens since the beginning of time. And they always surge in popularity during poor economic times...


5 posted on 04/12/2009 6:29:50 PM PDT by SECURE AMERICA (Coming to You From the Front Lines of Occupied America)
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6 posted on 04/12/2009 6:30:16 PM PDT by Dallas59 ("You know the one with the big ears? He might be yours, but he ain't my president.")
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[Michelle Obama Effect?]

You must be kidding with that title. People are losing their jobs, food prices are going up. The stupid token White House vegetable has nothing to do with this trend. Survival does.


7 posted on 04/12/2009 6:30:36 PM PDT by Jean S
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Michelle Obama???

Yep, everybody is afraid we will starve under her husband’s watch.


8 posted on 04/12/2009 6:30:41 PM PDT by FreeInWV (Have you had enough change yet?)
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I would call it “the China effect.” During communism, the only place the people could get food was the little garden which they tended themselves. There was nothing in the stores, at least that they could afford. And they had no incentive to work because they did not get paid what they produced. Their garden was the only thing that really belonged to them.

And so it is the same under the Obamanation.


9 posted on 04/12/2009 6:30:43 PM PDT by Brilliant
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I doubt it has much to do with her but I think it’s a great idea and I hope more do it. I intend to make mine bigger this year. Space is not a problem. Ambition is.


10 posted on 04/12/2009 6:31:30 PM PDT by Past Your Eyes (Some people are too stupid to be ashamed.)
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I doubt it has much to do with her but I think it’s a great idea and I hope more do it. I intend to make mine bigger this year. Space is not a problem. Ambition is.


11 posted on 04/12/2009 6:31:42 PM PDT by Past Your Eyes (Some people are too stupid to be ashamed.)
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With arugula being unavailable in whole sections of the country, it is no wonder that the first lady has abandoned the traditional food supply chain and grow her own food.

Seriously, I bet by May that the Obamas abandon the garden until ceremonial harvest and leave its care and watering to the White House groundskeepers.

12 posted on 04/12/2009 6:32:02 PM PDT by KarlInOhio (No free man bows to a foreign king.)
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Given how the first photo op presented a reenactment of ‘Green Acres’ of sorts, these people living in the White House are play actors.

I am guessing the servants are out tending that garden for the ‘Queen’ because gardening requires full time attention, if one really plans on actually harvesting food for consumption. And there is no time to garden if you are always on tour or vacationing away from the garden.


14 posted on 04/12/2009 6:34:05 PM PDT by Just mythoughts (Bama and Company are reenacting the Pharaoh as told by Moses in Genesis!!!!!)
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Suddenly, growing vegetables is all the rage, with first lady Michelle Obama taking over a portion of the White House's South Lawn for summer crops.

Suddenly, I think that I have witnessed the biggest ass in this country if this writer thinks that growing a vegetable garden is someway remotely related to Ms Obama, who btw only recently began to feel good about her country! The Sacramento Bee is in serious need of objective writers........

15 posted on 04/12/2009 6:35:38 PM PDT by eeriegeno (<p>)
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was planning mine long before she did...LOL It’s a money thing. I like to eat an can no long afford to without some free food...Hey maybe Obama can fly me in a pizza...


16 posted on 04/12/2009 6:38:03 PM PDT by blueyon (It is worth taking a stand even if you are standing alone!)
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For FReepers who garden and are smokers, here’s a tip.

Save your butts.

Get a big plastic jug that holds about a gallon of water. Fill it near full, and toss our butts in.

After a day or so, strain it out and save the liquid part.

Nicotine is deadly to insects, that’s why the tobacco plant makes it. This is a quite strong insecticide, and does a pretty good job of repelling moles and gophers as well.

USE EXTREME CAUTION AND COMMON SENSE!!

A teaspoon of the stuff will kill you OR your pets!

Also, since tobacco is somewhat related to the nightshade family of plants, it’s recommended you don’t use this very heavily around potatoes or tomatoes.

I want to emphasize again USE CAUTION!


19 posted on 04/12/2009 6:39:29 PM PDT by djf (Live quiet. Dream loud.)
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oh, look.....y’all are planting gardens and are imitating MO.......LOL


20 posted on 04/12/2009 6:40:07 PM PDT by tioga
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The ‘ho’ doesn’t know how to hold a ‘hoe’.


21 posted on 04/12/2009 6:40:46 PM PDT by RushIsMyTeddyBear ("The smallest minority on earth is the 'individual'." ~ Rush Limbaugh)
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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!!!


22 posted on 04/12/2009 6:42:14 PM PDT by RandallFlagg (Satisfaction was my sin)
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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.
24 posted on 04/12/2009 6:43:07 PM PDT by antiunion person ("Do as I say, not as I do" says Nazi Pelosi, head of the socialist party of America.)
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I wonder if the Obama’s are growing watermelons??? Sorry, I couldn't help but ask that racist question.
25 posted on 04/12/2009 6:44:40 PM PDT by antiunion person ("Do as I say, not as I do" says Nazi Pelosi, head of the socialist party of America.)
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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.


26 posted on 04/12/2009 6:45:22 PM PDT by Will88
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