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Dig for victory and win contest

... Dig for victory and win contest KEEN gardeners should be thinking of sprucing up their plots in readiness for the Whitstable in Bloom competition. It will take place again this spring and summer, with judging in June. The prizegiving for the best looking ...

Published: Thursday 04 February 1999
Newspaper: Kentish Gazette
County: Kent, England
Type: Article | Words: 206 | Page: 9 | Tags: none

Pleasure to pay

... Pleasure to pay AFTER more than 40 {mrdflmw ‘s countryside, “LM hu(m been .mtu) has decided to scrap the Dig for Victory policy, a ' ee S rwibdees has led to. ruthless 8 e et ‘every square .inch of the countryside _in the interests of “agricultural p ...

Published: Friday 20 March 1987
Newspaper: Kentish Gazette
County: Kent, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 221 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

=4 9 it’s too late’ «..... even greater in this instance, because so little was known about prions, and the ..

... chalk causative agent Comparing the situation to that of nitrate fertiliser, ploughed into the land during the wartime Dig for Victory campaign, he said it was only 20-30 years before the problems associated with nitrates became evident, by which time it ...

Published: Thursday 18 September 1997
Newspaper: Kentish Gazette
County: Kent, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 902 | Page: 34 | Tags: none

All our 1940 s yester lino, dried eggs and

... of winter, cold water to wash in, rice pudding, greens, stone hot water bottles, lawns dug up for potatoes under the Dig for Victory scheme. s They don’t compare with soft toilet tissue, washixg)up liquid you can blow bubbles with, well-stocked chemists ...

Published: Thursday 27 April 1995
Newspaper: Kentish Gazette
County: Kent, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1058 | Page: 18 | Tags: none

Greed whittling away at our precious farmland

... forgetten the food rationing, the shortages and the sinking of the merchant ships bringing us food? In those times it was “Dig for Victory.” Everyone grew their own vegetables where possible, in back r.rdens and allotments. armers were paid to plough up meadows ...

Published: Friday 16 March 1990
Newspaper: Kentish Gazette
County: Kent, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1239 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

Old soldier digs for victories

... Old soldier digs for victories exhibit in the show, June Dean. Tom Coombes Memorial Cup for gladioli, Jean Sudell; Mary Rothermel Challenge Trophy for cookery, Bea Barber; T. Denne and Sons Trophy for a collection of vegetables and flowers, J. Johnson ...

Published: Thursday 08 September 1994
Newspaper: Kentish Gazette
County: Kent, England
Type: Article | Words: 258 | Page: 21 | Tags: none

City gardeners dig for victories

... City gardeners dig for victories MEMBERS of Canterbury Gardeners' Society dug into their reserves of skill to overcome the problems of a winiiing SxRDAS forthelr show a the w e, Ly Elliott; Kent Federation Merit Certificates, s el S ] ohnson; . u ’ potstoes ...

Published: Thursday 15 August 1996
Newspaper: Kentish Gazette
County: Kent, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 403 | Page: 7 | Tags: none