Tiptoe through the White House Garden
March 27, 2009 by Sandy Mitchell
Filed under Gardening
The Obamas have broken ground on their new White House garden and you can take a look, thanks to a new interactive Web tool designed by PlanGarden.
The White House vegetable garden is irregularly-shaped. The online version utilizes a new rotate feature to recreate even the stepping stones and non-square edges of the garden beds. The round edges were done using the curve feature. Plangarden plans to maintain the garden views with up-to-date information as the garden plantings change throughout the year.
The company also just released a handy online tool, “Grow Your Own Vegetables – Value Calculator” that estimates the value of produce from your vegetable garden in supermarket, farmer’s market, and organic produce dollars. This can help calculate how much can be saved on groceries as more families are being squeezed in this economic downturn. Variables, such as vegetable costs, can be modified.
(photo credit: Newscom)
