Gov. Beverly Perdue says she is trying to set a good example by growing a garden on the grounds of the Executive Mansion.
"I'm not the best gardener in the world," Perdue confessed to a conference today at N.C. State University designed to encourage the consumption of more North Carolina-grown food, reports Rob Christensen.
Perdue doesn't have to be an expert gardener. Prison trustees assigned to the mansion in downtown Raleigh do most of the work in growing lettuce, cabbage and other foods.
But Perdue said she helped pick some strawberries from the garden last week.
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Re: A governor and a gardener
May 12, 2009 - 7:06pm — ryanteaguebeckwithMultiple comments deleted. I'm shutting down this thread.
— RTB
Re: A governor and a gardener
May 12, 2009 - 6:40pm — peacenickmost of y'all are pretty sick puppies. I understand there are some 24 hour vets, I suggest you vis REAL soon.
Re: A governor and a gardener
May 12, 2009 - 6:21pm — beachbum3IMPEACH HER NOW AN HELP SAVE THE TAXPAYERS OF THIS STATE FROM HAVING TO CONTINUE TO PAY HER SALARY THANK YOU
Re: A governor and a gardener
May 12, 2009 - 6:19pm — beachbum3This governor is a political joke period. if she an her adminstration of kiss as--s would really concencrete on just allowing the poeple within state government to actully perform the duty's of the job descripitions that they were originally hired to do in the first place this states government an it's citizens would be a whole lot better off. as for this governor working in a garden this is a picture thsat i personnaly can't wrap my mind aroundactually seeing her in a garden. in all likelyhood she will never set one foot in this garden herself as that some poor state employees would be designated as gardner in charge of the veggies with responsibilities to furnish her family with it's bounty . thank you
Re: A governor and a gardener
May 12, 2009 - 3:49pm — thnkb4uspkGood lord...she's such a priss. I wonder how much of my check will be going to pay for her cute gloves, pretty little vegetable gathering baskets,gardening clogs, and adorable sun hat?
Re: A governor and a gardener
May 12, 2009 - 3:11pm — arthurb3Whoa, CBROSE- that's funny!
Re: Don't Forget the Sweet Potatoes
May 12, 2009 - 2:43pm — ProctorThe Governor should consider trying to harvest a few sweet potatoes if there's room in the garden patch, for this might help her attract some bipartisan support in the Legislature across party lines from such major sweet potato counties as Nash and Sampson. Oh, and some cucumbers might bring a tip of the hat from those fine truck-crop farmers down Salemburg and Roseboro way.
To keep fellow Democrats happy, Gov. Perdue might try planting some beans and peanutes like they grow up in Democratic-voting Northampton and Hertford counties. One musn't create any needless grumbling about crop priorities around Ahoskie and Jackson.
Okay, okay--we admit it: politics should not only stop "at the water's edge" as in foreign policy; perhaps domestic politics should also stop at the edge of the veggie garden. Still, you can't help wondering what might be said about Tar Heel agricultural politics if vegetables could talk...
David McKnight
Re: A governor and a gardener
May 12, 2009 - 2:19pm — tracie4541Maybe she will have one of the lifers in prison for raping a 5 year old child and leaving them tied to the tree, tend her garden. That's what the prisoner who was run over by a tractor at the Caledonia Prison Farm was in for and to think he was out working on the Prison farm.
Does she honestly think telling the public about "her" garden is going to win her any favor? Please!
Re: A governor and a gardener
May 12, 2009 - 2:00pm — Alabama01If this woman has the time to tend a garden we are in more trouble than I thought with her in office.
Re: A governor and a gardener
May 12, 2009 - 1:37pm — ncoldsaltThe humble Carolyn Hunt remains the queen of the vegetable garden.
Re: A governor and a gardener
May 12, 2009 - 1:16pm — FurbishLousewartAnd as Mitch Hedberg said, "And last night all those people were at my show."
Despite whatever power may be imbued upon your particular flower, I would argue that umm humans are the most important living creatures. At least to me...
Re: A governor and a gardener
May 12, 2009 - 12:29pm — FlowerpowerGrowing vegetables is a laudable activity, but if others do the gardening for you, you miss the Zen of gardening: plants are living creatures--the most important of all living creatures--that give off good vibrations when you work among them.
It is disheartening when everything you do is subject to criticism, but as Lincoln said: "you can please some of the people all of the time, you can please all of the people some of the time, but YOU CAN'T PLEASE ALL THE PEOPLE ALL THE TIME."
Re: A governor and a gardener
May 12, 2009 - 12:04pm — j1c2kpMaybe she is trying to be like Michelle Obama. Didn't she plant a garden at the White House?
Re: A governor and a gardener
May 12, 2009 - 11:40am — cbroseHmm. Isn't that more like being a plantation owner?
I know they are criminals but it's not like SHE is actually doing anything.....
Should say INMATES grow vegetables at mansion.
Re: A governor and a gardener
May 12, 2009 - 11:38am — FurbishLousewartStory item 1: Perdue calls for resignation of official over an image of a watermelon patch.
Story item 2: Perdue grows and promotes vegetable garden.
Story item 3: The internet entity known as "FurbishLousewart" goes completely insane.