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It’s about time to start thinking about planting your summer garden. The White House is getting an early start.
Michelle ObamaRe-Plants White House Garden With Help From Thomas Jefferson
The First Lady will also be joined by Jefferson. The third president didn’t have a vegetable garden at the White House—then known as the President’s House—when he was in office between 1801 and 1809, but his spirit—and seeds and plantings from his own vast vegetable garden at his Virginia plantation home, Monticello—have been present in Mrs. Obama’s Kitchen Garden from day one. That’s thanks to master horticulturalist Peter Hatch
For more than three decades, Hatch, an expert in archeological gardening, has overseen the historically accurate re-creation of Jefferson’s vast gardens, and he told Obama Foodorama that he will be bringing some of Jefferson’s favorite cool season vegetable plants to the White House this afternoon for the First Lady. These will include Tennis-ball, Brown Dutch, and Aleppo lettuces; broccoli and purple broccoli; artichokes; and three kinds of cabbage—Savoy, red, and Early Jersey Wakefield. There will be Kale, too.
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Seeds from Monticello’s collection will also arrive with Hatch, and these include three varieties of beans—Red Calico bean, Carolina lima bean, and Scarlet-runner bean. Prickly-seeded spinach, Purple Calabash and Costoluto Genovese tomato seeds are also on the way, as are a few exotic things that aren’t in most citizens’ gardens these days: Cow’s Horn okra, and Texas bird pepper, Hatch said.
You too can order seeds from Monticello and grow some American history in your own garden. Seeds are very affordable and there are notes on the history of each variety. I highly recommend the Florence Fennel which is great on the grill for summer bbq and the Yellow Pear Tomatoes are a must for every garden.