Poster for Your Potting Shed?

[digitS']

Herbert Bayer, "Grow It Yourself: Plan a Farm Garden Now," 1942/43, Library of Congress (click pic for download)



digitS'
edited: brightened the picture a little

 

[Chickie'sMomaInNH]

i have a 1918 magazine/newspaper to 'Plant a War Garden'. this isn't my listing but it is the cover of the one i have. i found mine locally about 10 years or so ago at an old book store that had burned down a few weeks after i got it. guess i could say i 'saved' it from a horrible demise.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/The-Youths-...390414071535?pt=Magazines&hash=item5ae67df6ef

 

[digitS']

The Youth's Companion. That seems a nice name for a magazine.

~ sigh ~

Always seems to be another war.


Steve

 

[Nyboy]

Is this where the name victory garden came from?

 

[digitS']

Yes, I believe so, NyBoy.

If you go back to the beginning of the "foreign" wars, half the American civilian population was on farms. People had use for children and when the young men went off to war, the ability of the nation to feed itself and them was compromised. People were encouraged to grow as much of their food as possible.

I have a picture of my mom in her newly-planted victory garden (i'll look for it). My grandmother's garden in Canada was in the shape of a "V" even tho' she had all sorts of room around it to make it any shape she wanted. It was the '60's before I saw it and hadn't been cultivated in about 15 years but you could still see the outlines.

Steve

 

[digitS']

digitS' Mom (Bluebird Canyon, Laguna Beach, California):

Can you read the caption? It says "My Victory Garden '43."

 

[SweetMissDaisy]

LOVE that pic of your Mom, DigitS'!

 

[Jared77]

Nice pic Steve and the poster is great.

 

[thistlebloom]

What a cutie your mom was Steve. I guess it is only right that you are walking in the footsteps of your mom and grandma.
The apple doesn't fall far from the tree does it?