Map of White House organic garden:

[greenbird]

http://www.nytimes.com/imagepages/2009/03/20/us/20garden_grphic.html

I love this.

Seems like a lot of fennel, though!

[yellowdogintexas]

1. that may be the world's largest salad garden. LOL it is mostly greens

and herbs.

NO tomatoes, green beans, squash, zucchini or corn. Noticed the rhubarb, and mint are AWAY from the rest of the plot. That is because they tend to take over the world.

She really should put in an asparagus bed though.

[yy4me]

3. Asparagus, of course. Elegant plant, versatile and good for you.

There are some funny voids, I'm sure we'll all come up with the missing plants. I bet it was the White House chefs that did the planning.

[kestrel91316]

7. I saw a photo of the groundbreaking, and it looked like a chef was there

in his white jacket.

[Sarah Ibarruri]

4. I'm just glad they have an organic garden

LOL! I had no idea rhubarb and mint take over the world!

[yy4me]

2. What, no green and wax beans? Travesty! This is a great way

to get the message to the rest of us, If you have a square foot of land, use it for a garden. You can put a tomato plant in a square foot. Maybe squeeze basil in there too.

Some things are not worth it because they cost more for a limited use. The first thing that comes to mind is carrots...but then again, lots of people love carrots. Who am I to judge.

I can see by studying the plot layout that this is a salad loving group. I assume all the leafy stuff, as good as it all is, must be for larger groups than the four Obama's.

State dinners all all that?

Good for them. I'm contemplating my garden for this year now. Can't wait to get the flats and put them in. I have no good in-house spot to start the plants indoors. Wrong exposure.

[greenbird]

5. These are cool weather crops

You wouldn't be putting beans, tomatoes or corn in now. They'll come later.

[kestrel91316]

8. Beans (except favas) are a summer crop. This is just their spring garden.

[jody]

6. What, no medicinal marijuana? n/t

[tama]

9. Best thing Obamas have done so far n/t

[LWolf]

10. Agreed. nt

[humus]

11. message is plain enough

"Agriculture... is our wisest pursuit, because it will in the end contribute most to real wealth, good morals and happiness." --Thomas Jefferson to George Washington, 1787. ME 6:277

The message is plain enough, and we have ignored it for too long:
the great, centralized economic entities of our time do not come into
rural places in order to improve them by "creating jobs." They come
to take as much of value as they can take, as cheaply and as quickly
as they can take it. They are interested in "job creation" only so
long as the jobs can be done more cheaply by humans than by
machines. They are not interested in good health--economic or
natural or human--of any place on this earth.
Wendell Berry