Michelle Obama is growing herbs in the White House Garden! The White House organic vegetable garden, an 1,100-square-foot area located on the South Lawn, will be the first since Eleanor Roosevelt's Victory Garden during WWII. The Obamas plan to grow at least 55 different vegetables and herbs in the L-shaped plot. The project will not only put healthy vegetables on the First Family's table, but will serve as a model for the rest of the country, encouraging people to garden, purchase locally-grown foods, and create a healthy diet.

"What I found with my girls is that they like vegetables more if they taste good," Mrs. Obama says. "Especially if they were involved in planting it and picking it, they were more curious about giving it a try."

The new garden will include a variety of perennial culinary herbs: sorrel, thyme, oregano, sage, rosemary, marjoram, chives, chamomile, garlic chives, and anise hyssop. Because of mint's invasive habit, it will be grown in a separate container. Among the annual herbs: dill, parsley, and cilantro, as well as edible flowers such as nasturtium, and marigolds, to help repel insect pests.

If you can't get a peek at the White House garden the next time you're in D.C., be sure and check out the National Herb Garden, a beautiful place to visit at any season of the year.