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I guess all politics is vegetable.

I should have seen this coming - Garden Variety readers who are not fans of the current administration think the First Lady's kitchen garden is a fake.

They believe the garden was "installed," planted with mature vegetable plants in order to fool the public.

(Fool the public into believing what, I don't know. Believing that there were weapons of mass destruction there?)

Indeed, the garden did look very mature on my visit there Tuesday. But not that mature.

The snap peas and the greens were ready to harvest - but that's no surprise for Washington, D.C., and a spring as rainy as ours has been.

And the soil was amended with compost before it was planted. When I did that in a new bed I installed, the plants went crazy.

The kale, chard and lettuces look exactly as they do at the Farmers' Market in Annapolis that I visit each Saturday.

But there are no cukes yet, no peppers, mostly tomato flowers, and one tiny eggplant. The sweet potatoes and okra are just seedlings.

Garden Variety readers are entitled to their opinions. But let's talk gardens, not politics.