Thing is, WG, your country didn't have rationing, while we did. My family had to grow things they didn't like, just to eat. Every plot was maximised, just like your garden. You may never have seen a BBC programme entitled Back in time for tea. Quite illuminating, when you have not got a 50 x 25 garden My mum hated parsnips and turnips, but they were turned into stwnch or ponch meipe. I know the soil, elevation of my garden. I plan and grow the crops i want, after research. I spent time at a local horticultural college. It is you who is rude, asking us to consider your year long challenge, with unknown varieties, indeed unknown vegetables, unknown aspect etc. I respectfully request that you give us respect too.
I really don't think it's us who are over-thinking it 🤣
The UK was fighting WW1 from 1914 onwards ... the US didn't get involved for the first three years (1917)... for WW2 they were neutral, not getting properly involved until the US was itself threatened two years after the commencement ... while the UK will always be immensely grateful to the USA and our other allies in WWs 1 and 2, to suggest that the folk living in the US endured anything like the privations suffered by everyone here in the UK is downright insulting ... our parents and grandparents needed no lessons from the US in growing our own food, making do and mending, saving string and knitting socks for soldiers whilst being bombed in a war that, for us, lasted six years.
I understand that optimal use of space in cropping plans holds a particular fascination for you, and in these days where modern homes have smaller and smaller gardens, it ought to be pertinent. However, a didactic and sneering attitude has not won you friends on this forum ... I suggest a rethink.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
I agree that space is becoming more important these days as so many gardens are very small or practically non existent.. However, there has been a move towards the breeding of smaller varieties of veg and fruit - ie suitable for container growing which can often help those with less space to grow more. If you think back to the days of the UK's Council housing schemes, many of them would have large gardens and their tenants took full advantage of the space to grow food as well as ornamentals. Allotments were also made use of until space for housing became more vital. Fortunately they are making a comeback but it can be difficult to find one locally as the building pressure increases. Inner cities apart, one assumes the US has far more "space" available for the growing of food on a domestic basis but no doubt the OP will be able to confirm that or otherwise. Growing of veg is a popular subject and judging by the posts on here ( especially since Covid ), it is of interest to many of us. Could just do without the easy dismissal of the experience gained over many years by people here. If the OP is determined to continue in the same vein, perhaps some verifiable evidence of the US's superior veg production on an amateur scale wouldn't go amiss?
Dovefromabove it is not just about spacing. it is also about design and production. looking at a garden plan on paper is like looking at preliminary drawing by an artist of great work of art. what works paper does not always work in the real world garden. planning is where many gardens fail before the first seed is even planted. by analyzing a plan you can find mistakes before you are loading the dead plants in bin or compost heap.
Hill @raisingirl not mill. As in ... of beans. Qv Rick Blaine, Casablanca.
I do suspect that War Garden does not have a clue why this discussion has veered away from that strangest of challenges or, indeed, what most of the posts mean.
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My family had to grow things they didn't like, just to eat. Every plot was maximised, just like your garden.
You may never have seen a BBC programme entitled Back in time for tea. Quite illuminating, when you have not got a 50 x 25 garden
My mum hated parsnips and turnips, but they were turned into stwnch or ponch meipe.
I know the soil, elevation of my garden. I plan and grow the crops i want, after research. I spent time at a local horticultural college.
It is you who is rude, asking us to consider your year long challenge, with unknown varieties, indeed unknown vegetables, unknown aspect etc.
I respectfully request that you give us respect too.
you don't need that to complete challenge. you are over think it.
The UK was fighting WW1 from 1914 onwards ... the US didn't get involved for the first three years (1917)... for WW2 they were neutral, not getting properly involved until the US was itself threatened two years after the commencement ... while the UK will always be immensely grateful to the USA and our other allies in WWs 1 and 2, to suggest that the folk living in the US endured anything like the privations suffered by everyone here in the UK is downright insulting ... our parents and grandparents needed no lessons from the US in growing our own food, making do and mending, saving string and knitting socks for soldiers whilst being bombed in a war that, for us, lasted six years.
I understand that optimal use of space in cropping plans holds a particular fascination for you, and in these days where modern homes have smaller and smaller gardens, it ought to be pertinent. However, a didactic and sneering attitude has not won you friends on this forum ... I suggest a rethink.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
If you think back to the days of the UK's Council housing schemes, many of them would have large gardens and their tenants took full advantage of the space to grow food as well as ornamentals. Allotments were also made use of until space for housing became more vital. Fortunately they are making a comeback but it can be difficult to find one locally as the building pressure increases.
Inner cities apart, one assumes the US has far more "space" available for the growing of food on a domestic basis but no doubt the OP will be able to confirm that or otherwise. Growing of veg is a popular subject and judging by the posts on here ( especially since Covid ), it is of interest to many of us. Could just do without the easy dismissal of the experience gained over many years by people here. If the OP is determined to continue in the same vein, perhaps some verifiable evidence of the US's superior veg production on an amateur scale wouldn't go amiss?
Maybe a luggy o rasps?
design and production. looking at a garden plan on paper
is like looking at preliminary drawing by an artist of
great work of art. what works paper does not always
work in the real world garden. planning is where many gardens
fail before the first seed is even planted. by analyzing
a plan you can find mistakes before you are loading the dead plants in
bin or compost heap.