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April 14, 2009

Victory gardens

My colleague Paul McCardell writes today on his blog, a Century in the Sun about victory gardens during World War II.

According to Paul, something like 50,000 Baltimore residents had gardens, and they planted them in school yards, parks and around businesses.

Paul has found some wonderful pictures in The Sun archives of those gardens, including the one above. Take a look, and a trip back in time.

And for more information about starting a victory garden of your own, check out the posts written by Carrie Lyle and Joannah Hill, Master Gardeners who chronicle the development of their own vegetable gardens every Tuesday here on Garden Variety.

Posted by Susan Reimer at 2:34 PM | Permalink | Comments (1)
Categories: Vegetable gardening

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What a wonderful picture -- and an important theme. Thanks for sharing.

For more on wartime victory gardens, see:
http://www.seasonalwisdom.com/2009/04/historian-looks-back-at-victory-gardens.html

A great Victory Garden resource is www.redwriteandgrew.com.

Happy gardening...

Posted by: Teresa | April 21, 2009 8:15 AM

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Susan Reimer has spent 16 years writing about raising kids - among other topics - in her column for The Baltimore Sun. And every time son Joseph or daughter Jessie passed another milestone - driver's license, college, wedding or a move to a new military duty station - she has planted another garden. Now she will be writing about those gardens - and yours - here on Garden Variety.

Susan isn't an expert gardener, but she wasn't an expert mother, either. Both - the kids and the gardens - seem to be doing well in spite of her.

She lives in Annapolis with her husband, Gary Mihoces, who loves to cut his grass but has noticed that there seems to be less of it every time the kids pass another milestone.

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