By now, everyone is talking about the White House vegetable garden. The White House has published the official garden plan, which is heavily slanted towards salad greens and peas. There are also small plantings of broccoli (no doubt for state visits by George H. W. Bush), onions, shallots, carrots, radishes, fennel, and rhubarb. This doesn't seem to be the entire layout, though, as the New York Times reports that the garden will include tomatilloes and a berry patch, neither of which appear on the plan. And it's a little surprising that the tomato, a staple of almost every American home garden, doesn't appear on this plan.

Most of the media coverage has been aimed at the casual reader. The Cellar and the Pantry wants to know more, and I'll bet other gardeners do, too.

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