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8 stories and pieces of advice from Michelle Obama's new book 'American Grown'
The White House Kitchen Garden staffers tried "hoop houses," long plastic hoops that covered plants and protected them from the cold, in the winter. While there was a little trial and error – Obama says they had to move the hoop houses farther apart than they originally planned the next year because they needed more room to shovel snow – the hoop houses worked remarkably well. "Some varieties of lettuce grew even better in the hoop houses than during the regular garden season," she wrote.
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