To planting our spring garden. My wife and I got our peas, onion sets, and some lettuce in the ground yesterday and this morning. According to Obamafoodorama the White House garden has yet to be planted for spring. (Ground was broken for it this time last year.) I've observed before they should be ahead of Reston: the White House is closer to the ocean and therefore somewhat warmer than we are.
To be fair, however, apparently they planted winter rye on some of the beds while still growing turnips, lettuce and arugula on other ground. Rye is nice, rye is good. We've never used it, too impatient. But rye is good organic gospel; the roots improve the texture of the soil and when it's turned under, it adds organic matter. The problem with rye is, IMHO, to get the maximum benefit you have to let it grow some in the spring after it comes out of dormancy, meaning you get a late start on your garden, which doesn't work for us impatient types.
For the White House, for whom gardening is both personal and political, rye probably works okay. After all doing the spring planting will certainly be another media event, requiring much coordination of staff and school(s). And as any bureaucrat knows, coordination takes time.
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