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Found this website when trying to look back to find what varieties were being grown by the vegetable gardener post World War 2. Didn't help for that but very interesting nonetheless
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Did you forget the link AP?
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Is that the one that has the planting plans on it? I never really 'got' rotation untill I printed them....it all became clear after that
Dig For Victory WWII Allotment Garden Plan - Grow Vegetables Year RoundComment
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Whooops - now what are the dogs getting up to?Comment
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aaargh, have to look for it again. I am such a dork sometimesComment
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Gardening ebook : Ministry of Agriculture Allotment and Garden Guides - 1945
Thanks Thelma and Jeanied. Should have read your posts
thanks also to Sarz for transferring my OP out of the archived section for me.
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Wicked, I love it. Thanks AP. I have the New Gardening Encyclopedia by M Thompson dated 1949 which is a great old read.Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better...Albert Einstein
Blog - @Twotheridge: For The Record - Sowing and Growing with a Virgin Veg Grower: Spring Has Now Sprung...Boing! http://vvgsowingandgrowing2012.blogs....html?spref=twComment
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Brilliant, just lost (or, gained... personally
) a good couple of hours on that site
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I thought brilliant as well. Growing hasn't changed dramatically but it has changed during my lifetime. Some things have become more difficult like controlling pests and diseases but the development of resistant varieties is expanding. Noticed the other day there is now a clubroot resistant variety of sprouts and we already have cabbage -Kilaton and Kilaxy anf cauliflower - Clapton. Blight resistant spuds and toms. Slug resistant varieties next?Comment
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Slug resistant tattie Kestrel!
(On my plot anyway!)
My Majesty made for him a garden anew in order
to present to him vegetables and all beautiful flowers.- Offerings of Thutmose III to Amon-Ra (1500 BCE)
Diversify & prosper
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I have my ABC of Vegetable Gardening book - by WE Sherwell Cooper - printed 1947 - and with little notes in written by my granny. A fab little volume and inside the dust cover was a chart of veggies sowing and planting times. I love these old books.
PS -if anyone wants a photocopy of the inside of the dust cover pm me - a couple of bits have fallen away but the gist of it is still there! I have three to give away!!!Last edited by Jeanied; 12-12-2011, 09:16 PM.Whooops - now what are the dogs getting up to?Comment
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I've got that book as well Jeanie mines a 'modern' 1958 reprintOriginally posted by Jeanied View Post
and you're right its a lovely book to read.
Location....East Midlands.Comment
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I've got a copy of an old Kings seeds catalogue from 1911 ......very interesting I love looking to see what was around then ....S*d the housework I have a lottie to dig
a batch of jam is always an act of creation ..Christine Ferber
You can't beat a bit of garden pornComment
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My Majesty made for him a garden anew in order
to present to him vegetables and all beautiful flowers.- Offerings of Thutmose III to Amon-Ra (1500 BCE)
Diversify & prosper
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You do well for your age Binners!
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