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posted on 29 Jan 2008 by 'Mike'
I would like to add:

I have been invited to present a 1940's Night and would love to know what
you grew in your garden in the 1940's.

From memories of grandparents' village garden, which hadn't changed
for years and didn't for years afterwards:

Orchard area - Cooking apples, eating apples, cooking plums, dessert
plums, damsons, greengage.

Other fruit - raspberries, blackberries, strawberries, cooking
gooseberries, dessert gooseberris, black, red and white currants.

Veg - various cabbages, cauliflowers,b. sprouts, parsnips, carrots,
early and maincrop potatoes, beetroot, purple sprouting broccoli,
leeks, onions, massive asparagus bed, lettuce, tomatoes and cucumbers
(small leanto greenhouse), marrows, peas, broad beans, runner beans,
turnips, radishes (and during the war a patch of sugar beet for
sweetening fruit pies and puddings).

Herbs - sage, marjoram, parsley, mints, thyme, rosemary and roots of
horseradish.

Large compost heap and lots of flowers.

Grandma used to bottle or salt down stuff from the garden.

They had a few outbuildings and small paddock so had hens and pigs for
eggs and meat and a cow for milk (and butter).

I think the 'powers that were' tried to keep tabs on pigs but
nevertheless coupons for my grandparents, great aunt and her daughter,
and my mum went quite a way for that which they couldn't provide
themselves.

There was also an unofficial source of rabbits, hares, pheasants and
partridges.

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