A01=Twigs Way
Allotment
allotments
art
Author_Twigs Way
Category1=Non-Fiction
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Category=NL-HB
Category=NL-WM
Category=NL-WQ
Category=WMPF
Category=WQN
collections
concise
COP=United Kingdom
Country House War
curiosity
Dig for Victory
discover
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eq_history
eq_home-garden
eq_isMigrated=2
eq_nobargain
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Evacuees
facts
Format=BC
gift
giftbook
Girls
GrowMore Fertiliser
guide
handbook
historical
history
HMM=210
illustrated
IMPN=Shire Publications
introduction
ISBN13=9781784420086
Land
Language_English
Lord Woolton
Mr (Cecil) Middleton
PA=Available
PD=20150205
POP=London
Potato Pete
Price=€10 to €20
PS=Active
PUB=Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Rationing
research
Second World War
Secret Pig
short
Subject=Gardening
Subject=History
Subject=Local Interest- Family History & Nostalgia
traditional
traditions
vintage
Wartime Garden
WG=151
WMM=149
Product details
- ISBN 9781784420086
- Weight: 180g
- Dimensions: 146 x 208mm
- Publication Date: 10 Feb 2015
- Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Publication City/Country: London, GB
- Product Form: Paperback
- Language: English
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‘This War is a Food War…’ In 1941 Lord Woolton, Minister for Food, was determined that the Garden Front would save England: ‘Dig for Victory’ was the slogan, digging for dinner the reality. With food imports dwindling the number of allotments grew, millions opted to ‘Spend an Hour with a Hoe’ instead of an hour in a queue, and the upper classes turned lawns, tennis courts and stately gardens over to agriculture. The national diet was transformed, with swedes grown in the place of oranges and hapless children sucking on carrot lollies; evacuees grew their own meals and bomb sites sprouted allotments. Vegetables ruled the airwaves with Mr Middleton’s ‘In Your Garden’ whilst Home Guard potatoes became the favourites of the Kitchen Front. This is a fully illustrated look at the time when gardening saved Britain.
Twigs Way is a garden historian, writer and lecturer with a particular interest in the gardens of the working and middle classes. Twigs is fascinated by by the way in which even the smallest of plots will reflect the impact of social and political change and explores this through her books and media appearances including previous work on wartime gardens.
