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1:29 PM
March 26, 09
Looking at Veggie E-Cards from th
NATIONAL GARDEN ASSOCIATION.
Here is one from their e-Card list:
http://www.garden.org/ecards/index.php?q=imageℑ=149&album=5
This Super Ripe Image is available
as one of the Enchanted Garden Intentional COmmunity
Greetings Cards available in '09
as part of our BEET KEEPERS, Return '09!
Project.
You can order this Greeting Card
on our Marketplace Forum site
here on Curezone:
http://www.curezone.com/forums/fm.asp?i=1311641
3:27 PM
March 26, 09
Wow!
My attention was drawn to the NATURAL GARDENING ASSOCIATION
site this morning when I started to read up about the ORGANIC
Garden that First Lady MICHELLE OBAMA is planting at the
White House.
That article mentions ENCHANTED GARDEN someplace on the page,
The Presidents "Hate' of beets, and CHARLIE NARDOZZI.
CHARLIE NARDOZZI, head of the National Gardening Association,
where have I heard that name recently???????????
Charlie is the given authorship of THE ULTIMATE GARDENER,
the compilation of 40 stories by gardeners and 15 photographers
in that new book just published by HCI.
HCI is the publisher I planted to be my publsiher 14 years ago.
I have six photos in THE ULTIMATE GARDENER!!!!!!
KEEP The BEET Media Star,
The World's First Talking Beet Plant
is mentioned in my bio note in
THE ULTIMATE GARDENER!
I have already written about PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA
and his feelings for beets.
KEEP The BEET told me that she would love to grow
at the While House because she knows she will be save
from being eaten there!!!!!!
She says it is O.K. for our President to KEEP the BEET
and Eat the Greens. That is the essence of our national
program to create a Nation of Gardeners.
The KEEP The BEET Program aims to give people back
their confidence that they can grow a bit of their own food,
and in doing so,have a Moment of Awakening about
supporting the local, organic farmers who are growing
the rest of our food.
Local, Organic Farmers????
What a concept!
It still exists here where KEEP The BEET Media Star lives,
So Cal, and in many other states.
With Modern Green Tech, we may also be able to have
local, organic gardeners where you live.
EDMOND BORDEAUX SZEKELY, who fathered
the idea in my head to grow KEEP The BEET in a pot,
believed that we could grow all kinds of foods in pots.
There are also other ways to grow food in pots,
including a system I saw last weekend at BILL TALL"S
CITY FARMER NURSERY.
Anyone can grow a garden inside now during the winter,
even in the coldest of climates.
I was in the middle of my OTA Web Gallery Blog
when I found this story about Charlie Nardozzi.
I had to stop in my tracks and call LARISSA HENOCK
at HCI. I was the first to tell her!!!!
I am planting the seed that THE ULTIMATE GARDNER
will soon be in the WHILE HOUSE on First Ladu
MICHELLE OBAMA's reading list.
KEEP The BEET Media Star may even take a little trip
to Washington D.C. to present this gift to our First Lady
who is receiving great support from the entire
Veggie and Fruit Kindom for getting locally, grown
organic food once again at the Whte House
http://home.aol.com/gardening/planting/michelle-obamas-vegetable-garden?feedd...
HERE IS THE WHOLE STORY:
Michelle Obama's White House Vegetable Garden
With help from local schoolchildren, Michelle Obama broke ground on Friday on the first White House vegetable garden since World War II. The First Lady, known for her devotion to healthy eating habits and workouts, will grow 55 kinds of vegetables in the 1,100-square-foot garden, including spinach, broccoli, carrots, rhubarb, fennel, shell peas and more. One notable exception? Beets, which the president hates. The fruits and vegetables grown in the garden will be harvested by White House chefs and used for both casual family dinners and more formal affairs. Start-up costs totaled just $200.
Do you have a vegetable garden? Share it with us! Send us some photos with a brief story and we may include your garden in an upcoming story. Email us at:
vegetablegards@aol.com
Click through the gallery for more tips on how to grow a garden like Michelle Obama’s.
Michelle Obama's White House Garden
With help from local schoolchildren, Michelle Obama broke ground on Friday on the first White House vegetable garden since World War II. The organic fruits and vegetables grown in the garden will be harvested by White House chefs and used for both casual family dinners and more formal affairs. Start-up costs totaled just $200.
Michelle Obamas White House Garden
With help from local schoolchildren, Michelle Obama broke ground on Friday on the first White House vegetable garden since World War II. The organic fruits and vegetables grown in the garden will be harvested by White House chefs and used for both casual family dinners and more formal affairs. Start-up costs totaled just $200.
The 1,100-sq.-ft. White House Kitchen Garden will include 55 types of fruits and vegetables. One notable omission? Beets, which the president hates. But every family member, including the president, will be responsible for helping with the weeding--"whether they like it or not," Michelle Obama said.
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Known for her fashion sense, Michelle Obama shows that she still knows rule number one of gardening: be ready to get dirty.
Jason Reed, Reuters
Obama dug in during the groundbreaking of the White House Kitchen Garden on the South Lawn of the White House on Friday. The garden will be visible from Washington D. C.'s E Street.
Ron Edmonds, AP
The first lady had help in the garden. A group of 5th graders from nearby Bancroft Elementary School participated in the groundbreaking and will be back periodically to plant, harvest and cook the veggies.
Michelle Obama and White House Chef Sam Kass congratulate the kids on a successful groundbreaking. One of Obama's goals for the garden is to use it as an educational tool for kids.
It looks like the first lady is fired up about having the first vegetable garden at the White House since Eleanor Roosevelt.
The Obama organic garden will include blueberries, blackberries and raspberries. Keep clicking to see what else the first family plans to harvest.
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A variety of leafy greens, including red romaine lettuce, green oakleaf lettuce, butterhead lettuce, redleaf lettuce and red oakleaf lettuce.
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Swiss chard and fennel.
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Shortly after Obama was elected last November, chef and locally-grown food cheerleader Alice Waters volunteered herself as an advisor on food policy, a member of the president’s “kitchen cabinet.” “I cannot forget the vision I have had since 1993 of a beautiful vegetable garden on the White House lawn,” she wrote in a letter to the Obamas. “It would demonstrate to the nation and to the world our priority of stewardship of the land--a true victory garden!” And hers wasn’t the only call to action. Told of plans for the new organic vegetable garden, Waters said, “Nothing could be more exciting.”
Charlie Nardozzi, the senior horticulturist at the National Gardening Association, says you don’t have to live in the White House, or have a full-time staff, to grow a garden like Obama’s. Just follow a few key rules.
First, it’s important that a home garden receive at least six hours of sun a day. (Land can still be used if it receives less, but the growing options will be more limited.) Secondly, Nardozzi recommends planting your garden “close to your house, close to your walkway, a place you’ll see everyday” so you’ll be motivated to put in a little time pulling weeds or tending seedlings each day.
Nardozzi also reminds people that they can, and should, start small. A 3' x 6' raised garden that’s well composted can contain tomatoes, lettuce, beans, squash and cucumbers. In a study Nardozzi conducted recently, a family with an average-sized vegetable garden of about 600-sq.-ft. can save up to $600 a year on produce.
With the right sunlight, scale, and attention, you can grow almost anything. But why not start with some surefire successes? Nardozzi says, “Some of the easiest things to grow include bush beans, summer squashes, leafy greens like Swiss chard and mescluns, and tomatoes.”
Ready to start fertilizing? Nardozzi recommends that prospective gardeners try out the Kitchen Garden Planner from the Gardener’s Supply Company, a program that allows you to digitally plan a 3” x 6” raised garden. To keep start-up costs low, use cinder blocks, bricks or untreated lumber as your garden walls and rely on seeds rather than transplants.
For more tips, check out Charlie Nardozzi’s Edible Landscaping column and the National Gardening Association’s Food Gardening Guide.