Squirrels relish White House kitchen garden as shutdown sidelines staff

[FarCenter]

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - In the famous White House kitchen garden, tomatoes are rotting on the vine. Herbs have gone to seed. And the sweet potatoes - a favorite of President Barack Obama - have become worm food.

It's another impact of the government shutdown, one that only the fox and the many squirrels that live on the White House grounds could love.

A foodie blog called Obamafoodarama that obsessively covers the White House "food ephemera" and the administration's food policy has posted photos of the normally immaculate garden looking more like what most gardeners' plots appear at this time of the year - overgrown.

"Due to the shutdown, garden maintenance has been reduced considerably and only being watered as needed," a White House official confirmed, speaking on background.

http://ca.news.yahoo.com/squirrels-relish-white-house-kitchen-garden-shutdown-sidelines-220104454--business.html

[darkangel218]

1. Unrelated to the OP, but has anyone else noticed how big the DC squirrels are??

Are they feeding them?? Last I went to DC was 2010 and it amazed me how fat the lil squee were.

[hootinholler]

4. They've been training...

[darkangel218]

5. Lulz!!!

[hootinholler]

7. I work downtown. Meet our new animal control officers

[Cali_Democrat]

2. I'm sure the Republican Racists are celebrating this

That's how sick and twisted those fuckers are.

[FarCenter]

3. Obama broke the cardinal rule of gardening - never plant more garden than your wife will weed.

[bhikkhu]

6. I've kept that rule the last couple of years

sadly, no garden

[mostlyconfused]

8. Is this an Onion story?

Seriously. We're not talking about the back 40 on a farm. It's an 1,100 square foot garden. Looked that up on Wikipedia. It also has a quote, "Project facilitator Michelle Obama has made the vegetable garden a priority by requiring hands on assistance from all the family members."

Hmmm...Maybe the first lady could go out and pick the weeds?

[Marrah_G]

9. what a big waste of food.

Its a shame they didn't offer to let one of the food kitchens come in and pick the stuff.