"Elaine Jones" wrote in message
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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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My word that brought a lot back from when I had a Aunt who lived in the
countryside in Oxford :-)

Pigs and Pig Keeping during the Second World War is a very interesting
subject and is covered quite a bit in a book I have. I also remember the Pig
Bins in the Road for our scraps. There were 'Pig Clubs' and a certain amount
of help was given if you were in a situation to keep a pig or more, but as I
understand it, you had to give some of the meat up!! If they found out about
the pig that is.

Forgot where I read it, but a lovely story of a pig which had been
slaughtered and was kept in a bed, covered as 'A departed one' with I
believe, candles and a Bible on the 'covered departed one'. :-)) (I have
reason to believe it was in the Channel Islands when they were occupied

Mike


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