Obamas to Plant Vegetable Garden at White House I just saw the other day, I think on 60 minutes, about a woman that was pushing for a garden at the White House. I am not sure why this is news, they should have always had one there if the soil was good; so much land and doing nothing with it. I never understood why people did that; had so much yard and did nothing with it but cut it and make it pretty (at least where I live in the suburbs).