Victory gardens!

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Self-reliance is promoted by governments in hard economic times, especially during times of war when food may be rationed.

In the United States, citizens have been urged to grow "victory gardens" or "war gardens" at least as far back as World War I.

Here are some of the materials available to those interested in these self-help, do-it-yourself gardening movements:

Online digitized e-books:

• Everyman's garden in wartime (1917)


• Have a backyard garden (1917)


• Grow beans (1917)


• Getting the farm work done (1917)


• Drain the wet spots (1917)


• Defend your garden against insect pests (1917)
• Cultivation of Allotments (1917)


• War gardens : a pocket guide for home vegetable growers (1918)


• War vegetable gardening and the home storage of vegetables (1918)


• The War garden guyed (1918)


• The war garden victorious (1919)


• Victory gardens feed the hungry: the needs of peace demand the increased production of food in America’s victory gardens (1919)


• Gardens for Victory (1942)

Materials in UW-Madison Libraries

• War garden series (1914+) 1. Getting ready for the war garden -- 2. Seed sense for war gardeners -- 3. Early plants -- 4. Prepare the soil in the seed bed -- 5. Sowing the seed in the garden -- 6. Tillage is harvest insurance -- 7. Protect your garden


• World War 1, 1914-1918 miscellaneous broadsides from Wisconsin - Linden War Gardens, Letter from Special Committee on Food Production (Wausau, Wis.), Food Crops First (Columbia County Council of Defense)


• Raking the gardener and canning the canner : how the paragrapher, cartoonist, and humorist treat the men and women who have been raking the garden and canning the food products (1917)


• Root crops will supply food for man and beast (1917)


• Urban and suburban food production, its past and its future (1917)


• Woman’s National Farm and Garden Association bulletin (1917)


• Reuben and his wife’s war-garden (1918)


• Allotments for all; the story of a great movement (1918)


• War gardening and home storage of vegetables (1919)


• The victory of the gardens, a pageant in four episodes, written for the United States school garden army (1919)


• Home gardens for employment and food (1931)


• Community programs for subsistence gardens (1933)


• Gardening with Elizabeth Craig: a complete guide to all aspects of gardening in war-time (1940)


• Honey from your garden, a handy guide to beekeeping (1940)


• Guide for planning the local victory garden program (1942)


• War crops from our neighbor’s garden (1943)


• Victory gardeners can prevent ear-worms from entering their corn (1943)


• The 1943 victory garden program (1943)


• U.S. Government campaign to promote the production, sharing, and proper use of food. Book IV, Victory gardens campaign (1943)


• Victory garden: leader’s handbook (1943)


• Victory gardens (1943)


• Victory garden manual (1943)


• Vegetable gardening in wartime (1943)


• Going to the farm front? (1943)


• Schools and war gardens, some guides and resources (1943)


• Victory garden insect guide (1944)


• Allotmenteering in wartime (1944)


• A victory gardener’s handbook on insects and diseases (1944)


• Plow not, weed not, and really enjoy your garden (1945)


• Gardener’s chance: from war production to peace possibilities (1946)