Mo' Monday Media & Web Watch

• "Rotten Tomatoes: Contemplating a Vegetable Garden" (The Wall Street Journal blog, 16 June 2008): Be sure to check out the accompanying comments that offer evidence for why we need to work diligently to offer the American public viable planting options. (I've posted about this issue before...we have to keep the idea that we're not all working from a perfect micro-climate top of mind...but we can do something, even a little bit, to make a dent in some big issues like food safety)
• "Banking on Gardening" (The New York Times, 11 June 2008): Discusses rising national interest in home gardens in light of a weakening economy. An interesting tidbit:

  “Food prices have spiked because of fuel prices and they redounded to the benefit of the garden,” [George C. Ball Jr. of W. Atlee Burpee Company] said. “People are driving less, taking fewer vacations, so there is more time to garden.”