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Default New Garden at the White House

Bobo Bonobo® wrote:
> I was thinking earlier today about how it would be cool to have a t-
> shirt that said, "Be like Michelle. Plant a Victory Garden." My city
> is starting one, and I am very much involved from the ground up
> (pun). I've volunteered to help construct raised beds because I've
> done it in my own back yard, and I really want to help my community
> get on the program.
>
> To tell the truth, I've never been great at gardening, but the idea of
> growing my own food has always been darned near an obsession. The new
> LED grow lights offer the promise of practical basement gardening,
> especially raising tomatoes and chiles for future transplant. I also
> bought a rosemary plant for my garden. Fresh rosemary is so much
> better than dried.


Since you enjoy cooking, you will like having fresh rosemary. Herbs
seem fairly easy to grow. Go ahead and try a few others, you will be so
glad you did. I have herbs planted in the ground, growing in pots and I
have a few growing in hanging baskets; chives, parsley, oregano, mint.


Becca