i at least know at least the chicago tribune garden plans from WW1 and were displayed and grow in public parks so people could see them. a basic how to before tv or the internet. also there is this video of victory garden from ww2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=31hB5d__UT4
My grandparents, great aunts and uncles, and my in-laws’ families all had WW2 gardens as did their friends and also as did the older folk living and gardening in the village where I lived. They all had very clear memories and very clear photographs of their gardens.
The village museum has a huge photographic resource of how gardens were used during those times. Also some ‘gardener’s notebooks’ containing their records. Also many of the gardens of the ‘stately homes’ have archives containing records, plans and photographs from of how their gardens were used.
You’re trying to teach a whole load of grandmothers how to suck eggs Wargarden.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
I think a fair proportion of posters on this forum had parents, grandparents or great grandparents who gardened throughout WW2 (even WW1) and many of us will have photographs of them in their wartime gardens.
From the photos I have I can see that my maternal great grandparents wartime garden was still mainly ornamental but with plenty of fruit bushes & trees dotted around. Maybe a quarter of the rear garden space was given over to growing salads and veg which would have been more than enough for the two of them. In the late fifties it became my grandparents' home and they retained a sizeable patch for veg long after rationing disappeared.
Grandpa 1950's - fag in mouth as per....
Heaven is ... sitting in the garden with a G&T and a cat while watching the sun go down
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in my underpants.....
you have take what you get.
from WW1 and were displayed and grow in public parks
so people could see them. a basic how to before tv or
the internet. also there is this video of victory garden from ww2.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=31hB5d__UT4
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
I want real evidence
From the photos I have I can see that my maternal great grandparents wartime garden was still mainly ornamental but with plenty of fruit bushes & trees dotted around. Maybe a quarter of the rear garden space was given over to growing salads and veg which would have been more than enough for the two of them. In the late fifties it became my grandparents' home and they retained a sizeable patch for veg long after rationing disappeared.
Grandpa 1950's - fag in mouth as per....
do.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.