Garden Design

-Is Uncle Sam the original reason behind the love of U.S. vegetable gardens? After a visit to the new National Archives show in D.C., Corby Kummer thinks so. [The Atlantic]

-Related: Recent boom in vegetable gardening—is it because of the economic situation? [Washington Post]

-Gothamist's new Green Thumb series launches with a post about urban gardens. [Gothamist]

-Curbed is have an Outdoors Week, with lots of great gardening and design content. Note: Curbed's servers were seized by the FBI earlier this week (not related to their sites!), so the sites are not always working. [Curbed]