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... face of the British back garden over the past 100 years from declining Victorian country estates, through the wartime dig for victory and a Seventies - gnome craze, to the organic boom of the Nineties. . - .’ .;',} R SECRETS AND LINES ...

Published: Sunday 02 January 2000
Newspaper: Scotland on Sunday
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 55 | Page: 116 | Tags: none

CHANNEL 4

... Peter Maxwell Davies takes a trip to Antarctica. 512145 THE TWENTIETH CENTURY GARDEN. The effects of World War Two's Dig for Victory campaign on the garden. when necessity led to food replacing flowers on plots across the land a change not always popular ...

Published: Saturday 08 January 2000
Newspaper: Irish Independent
County: Dublin, Republic of Ireland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 482 | Page: 79 | Tags: none

SCOTLAND ON SUNDAY 9 January 2000 ——_ NIGH I SCREEN

... 'Antarctic Symphony. 512145 * 8.00 - THE TWENTIETH CENTURY GARDEN ;- - This edition looks at Britain's =+ World War. Il Dig for Victory ‘;,u-campaign,therisingpostwar ~ popularity of the rose and TV's -2~ first man of gardening — Percy o Theowek J 232% ...

Published: Sunday 09 January 2000
Newspaper: Scotland on Sunday
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 497 | Page: 139 | Tags: none

Modern food branded a kille T Experts say post-war agriculture has damaged human health and environment VIC ..

... at Cirencester, Gloucestershire, said this was in contrast to the drop in all forms of mortalities as a result of the “Dig for Victory” and organic systems adopted in the last world war. Post-war, the tu}ets were cheap food and production intensification ...

Published: Wednesday 12 January 2000
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 619 | Page: 26 | Tags: none

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... Peter Maxwell Davies travels to Antarctica. (T) 512145 The Twentieth Century Garden. The effects of World War Two's Dig for Victory camwmmmmmm to food replacing on plots across the land — a change not always popular with gardeners. Plus, a look at the ...

Published: Thursday 13 January 2000
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 294 | Page: 26 | Tags: none

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... Peter Maxwell Davies travels to Antarctica. (512145) B.OO—THE TWENTIETH CENTURY GARDEN The effects of World War Two's Dig for Victory campaign on the British garden. when necessity led to food replacing flowers on plots. (1232) 9.OO—WHITE TRIBE New series ...

Published: Thursday 13 January 2000
Newspaper: Irish Independent
County: Dublin, Republic of Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 410 | Page: 27 | Tags: none

Everything in the garden’s lovely for C\iapabilit;y McTavish

... up the car with Rota.vators:‘fllngmg baskets mdbanof fertiliser. In the gardens of the nation, assiduous wee men are digging for victory, tilling for triumph and raklnggr pleasure and profit. In eve mbm (t)l‘x?' sad gits to their Pl ii, spoonfuls of Baby ...

Published: Thursday 20 January 2000
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 762 | Page: 19 | Tags: none

LTI Guide 9

... by the austere realities of life in the Blitz. There will be black-out curtains, an Anderson air-raid shelter and a ‘Dig for Victory’garden awaiting the yet-to-be-selected family, plus the challenge of eking out the wartime rations that kept the country ...

Published: Friday 28 January 2000
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 444 | Page: 25 | Tags: none

Dig for victory

... Dig for victory DIG sounds rather like a trendy undertakerthat has just gone online. .- ~But the new. name for Ed[inburgh-based Memory Corporation is symbolic of a fairly ...

Published: Wednesday 09 February 2000
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 28 | Page: 25 | Tags: none

EARLY POTATOES: A welcome sight for any gardener

... not! We are growing a crop that was and remains a staple part of our diet. During the war {ears it was integral to the ‘Dig or Victory’ campaign and in 1947, the poor season followed by a severe winter, caused potatoes to be rationed. But that was nothing ...

Published: Thursday 10 February 2000
Newspaper: Alnwick Mercury
County: Northumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 165 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

NEWS/SPORTS EXTRA/LEISURE IN THE GARDEN | It’s time to plan for those early potatoes

... not! We are growing a crop that was and remains a staple part of our diet. During the war years it was integral to the ‘Dig for Victory' campaign and in 1947, the poor season followed by a severe Winter, caused potatoes to be rationed. But that was nothing ...

Published: Thursday 10 February 2000
Newspaper: Morpeth Herald
County: Northumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 921 | Page: 16 | Tags: none

Hookstone Wood/Crimple Wood Preservation Group HARROGATE is renowned for the beautiful and well planned flower ..

... were planted. Exciting displays brought joy to a town whose priority for years was the vital planting of vegetables - ‘Digging for Victory’ - it was clear from Mr Harding’s commentary that there was tremendous enthusiasm from all involved in those post-war ...