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September 3, 2009

Fall garden for the state's first lady

Maryland first lady Katie O'Malley, bitten by the gardening bug, has decided to extend the growing season of her first vegetable garden at Government House by planting fall crops.

Posted by Susan Reimer at 6:30 AM | Permalink | Comments (1)
Categories: Vegetable gardening

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Little steps lead to great advances. Very glad to see the first family in Maryland picking up the mantle of locally controlled food, as the first family of our nation was convinced to do. We have millions more steps to take- every family can at least grow one pot of SOMETHING to declare their food independence.

Grow food, not lawns!

Posted by: Carolyn Blakeney | September 13, 2009 4:25 PM

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Susan Reimer has spent 16 years writing about raising kids - among other topics - in her column for The Baltimore Sun. And every time son Joseph or daughter Jessie passed another milestone - driver's license, college, wedding or a move to a new military duty station - she has planted another garden. Now she will be writing about those gardens - and yours - here on Garden Variety.

Susan isn't an expert gardener, but she wasn't an expert mother, either. Both - the kids and the gardens - seem to be doing well in spite of her.

She lives in Annapolis with her husband, Gary Mihoces, who loves to cut his grass but has noticed that there seems to be less of it every time the kids pass another milestone.

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