Talk:Victory garden

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Additional information
I am planning to add more information to the Unites States section talking about how victory gardens served to unite the home front through business support and community events. I also plan to talk about how victory gardens while a national movement was still segragated. All this information will come from Amy Bentley's book Eating for Victory. If anyone wants to give me feedback feel free to leave it here or on my talk page Jsshadow99 (talk) 18:35, 8 March 2018 (UTC)

British Dig For Victory campaign
The Dig for Victory campaign was a major part of the UK war effort, this article deals almost entirely with the American efforts and campaigns. I don't have the information to fix this, but if anyone does, then it really needs improved. --Brideshead 11:00, 11 June 2006 (UTC) == vic.117.83.48]] (talk) 22:43, 20 January 2007 (UTC).

Also, the first "sentence" is not, and lacks enough details for me to correct:


 * In Britain, "digging for victory" used much land such as waste ground, railway edges, ornamental gardens and lawns, sports fields and golf courses were requisitioned for farming or vegetable growing.

Can someone who knows more - or better yet, has a reference - fix this? Huw Powell (talk) 02:23, 4 September 2016 (UTC)

Obscentities
Just edited out filthy language. Lord knows why this article was a target for abuse. -- Ryan S

Eleanor Roosevelt
I just spotted this in Michael Pollan's recent article: "When Eleanor Roosevelt did something similar in 1943, she helped start a Victory Garden movement that ended up making a substantial contribution to feeding the nation in wartime. (Less well known is the fact that Roosevelt planted this garden over the objections of the U.S.D.A., which feared home gardening would hurt the American food industry.)"  These facts would be interesting addition to this article, does anybody have further details of this? -- Trent (talk) 04:14, 15 October 2008 (UTC)

National War Garden Commission
Some of the facts about war gardening may be distorted because of exaggerations and media campaigns put forth by groups like the National War Garden Commission and its president, Carles Lathrop Pack. Pack's book The War Garden Victorious from 1918 gives some insight into his advocate point of view and efforts made to generate enthusiasm for war gardens in the U.S. during WWI. It might be good to cite this as a reference so people who come to this article have a chance to see for themselves. He was an interesting person who probably should have a page on WP too pradtke (talk) 05:43, 14 November 2008 (UTC)

Ownership of land used for Victory Gardens?
The first sentence of the first paragraph indicates that Victory Gardens were only planted at private residences.


 * Victory gardens, also called war gardens or food gardens for defense, were vegetable, fruit and herb gardens planted at private residences in the United States, Canada, United Kingdom and Australia during World War I and World War II to reduce the pressure on the public food supply brought on by the war effort.

It is my general understanding that in the US, at least during WW 2, that public lands (city, county and other local authority property) were also used for large scale Victory Gardens areas. Sometimes they were in individual allotments, othertimes collectively cultivated. See Allotment (gardening) for an overview. I would like to see some clarification on that subject -- if possible. --TGC55 (talk) 18:34, 8 January 2009 (UTC)

Remove TV show section?
Seems like the TV show section is unnecessary and off topic. The show has it's own separate entry, there is a link to the disambiguation page here, and the link to the show's official site is at the top of the external links. This seems like an already very reasonable amount of references without the section. --Migozared (talk) 03:48, 13 April 2009 (UTC)

Anyone else?
There doesn't appear to be much information on victory gardens outside America. some more information on other victory gardens is needed, I feel.SlumberlandIV (talk) 14:21, 25 September 2009 (UTC)

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Interesting Sidenote
In the video game Stronghold: Crusader, some troops will say "Dig for Victory" when ordered to dig a moat.71.86.140.226 (talk) 20:20, 7 May 2019 (UTC)

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