In keeping with the trend started by First Lady Obama at the White House, Queen Elizabeth has given the OK to create an organic vegetable garden at Buckingham Palace, ABC News reported. It has been decades since the palace has had a vegetable patch. During World War I, turnips grew among the exotic plants and flowers. The vegetable plot is called the “Yard Bed” and is located at the back of the palace's 40-acre garden.
According to royal garden manager Claire Midgely, the garden will use seaweed fertilizer, compost, hand-watering, and garlic extract as a natural aphid repellant.
The Royal may also be taking a leaf out of Prince Charles' book; the queen's son has been an avid organic farmer since the 1980s, even producing his own brand of cookies and hand-cooked vegetable chips.
Now it's the queen's turn.
http://www.abcnews.go.com/GMA/Weekend/story?id=7836150&page=1
Buckingham Palace to add organic veggie patch
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