You Can Garden Like Michelle Obama, With Special White House Seed Sampler Pack
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The temperature is in the low 20s today in Washington, DC, but First Lady Michelle Obama's White House Kitchen Garden was re-planted for Spring last week. And now, The Thomas Jefferson Foundation has made it very easy for home gardeners to follow Mrs. Obama's lead. For the second year, they're offering a Kitchen Garden Sampler White House Edition seed pack. Available for $18, it contains seeds for President Jefferson's favorite vegetables, which are being grown in Mrs. Obama's garden in a special bed in honor of the former Gardener in Chief.
Gleaned from Jefferson's lush and historically accurate garden at Monticello, his plantation home in Virginia, the Kitchen Garden Sampler White House Edition has seeds for Tennis-ball Lettuce, Prickly-seeded Spinach, Red Calico Lima Bean, Sesame, Globe Artichoke, and Early Jersey Wakefield Cabbage.
During last week's Spring Planting of the 34 newly boxed beds, the Jefferson favorites installed in Mrs. Obama's 1,500 square foot Kitchen Garden included Tennis-ball, Brown Dutch, and Aleppo lettuces; broccoli and purple broccoli; artichokes; kale; and three kinds of cabbage--Savoy, red, and Early Jersey Wakefield.
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